‘Jethica’ is a charming little ghost story | SXSW review

Mar 13, 2022

When Jessica’s stalker follows her to New Mexico, she and her friend Elena look for an otherworldy solution to get rid of him

Jethica feels like a ghost story told on a cool night next to a crackling campfire… or in the backseat of a car in an abandoned parking lot post-car sex, which is actually where Elena (Callie Hernandez) is recounting the story of how she killed someone to her hookup. As she speaks we start to see the story unfold before us with all the detail and witty tongue-in-cheek humor that any person telling a story would include. Because of that conceit, the movie is a lean 63 minutes of an interesting story well-told — and that’s what makes it great

Jethica is playing at the 2022 South by Southwest Film Festival