The Power of Darkness

The Power of Darkness or El Poder de las tinieblas is a 1979 Argentine mystery-horror thriller film directed by Mario Sábato and starring Sergio Renán. It is based on the chapter named Informe sobre ciegos ("Report on the Blind"), from the novel On Heroes and Tombs, written by the father of the director, Ernesto Sábato. It was nominated for Best Film at the International Fantasy Film Award Fantasporto in 1982. The film can be read as a clear metaphor for the State terrorism and violence produced by the dictatorship that ruled Argentina at that time, the self-titled National Reorganization Process (1976–1983).