Los Parecidos (Isaac Ezban, 2015)

In the midst of torrential rains somewhere outside Mexico City in 1968, eight characters find themselves stuck in a cut-off bus station and tensions between them come to the boil even before things start going very, very badly south in an unreal sense.
Ezban's The Incident the previous year created a nightmare of time and place out of skew on a seemingly global scale, and likewise here the radio keeps blaring out reports of the world going to hell in a handcart even as the characters experience it first hand, continually turning on each other trying to apportion blame until the true cause becomes apparent.
The Similars is shot in a sickly blue-tinted sepia and makes no attempt at rationality or fleshing out the personalities, because what Ezban really wants to do is bash them - and the viewer - against each other and the impossible until the disorientation is thoroughly unsettling. The Twilight Zone-style narrative framing at the start and end almost seems to have been imposed to isolate the viewer from continued ill effects of the spillage of the film into the real world.
In fact, the outline was actually lifted from a Twilight Zone episode of 1961, but nothing there could ever have been so demented. Maybe it takes a Mexican - there's plenty of previous in the country's filmic heritage for truly insane work, from Jodorowsky onwards.

6/10