The Netflix movie, The Wasteland (El Paramo) is a Spanish horror movie that’s also a period movie, and I think that means it’s gonna try to scare us with something that isn’t the internet, which might be a big ask in this day and age. The film is also known as The Beast, which is an even generic-er title, about a thing instead of a place, and specifically a haunting thing that may be a figment of the disturbed mind or may be corporeal, kind of like the internet. OK, so it’s not the cleanest metaphor. I’ll stop trying to wedge any modern symbolic significance in there and just determine if this thing has enough oomph to scare us or not.