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Summary: Laura returns to the house where she was raised, and decides to transform it into an orphanage. Soon, her son, Simón, makes an invisible friend... (imdb)
Starts off with a bang, keeps you in suspense the whole time, but the ending was a little much. It should have ended with the chilling discovery and suicide, rather than continue on into other side. Why add a happy ending to the perfect ending? It would be like if Han Solo was encased in Carbonite, the Slave One crashed into Vader's ship on takeoff, releasing Han from his freeze and in he process taking out the Empire. Ok, maybe not that extreme, but still...
The premise is neat, the setting is really filled with potential, and ghost kids creep me out. Somewhere along the way all this potential was squandered on a decent but surprisingly unengaging mystery. A few cool moments, but most of the time you'll be waiting for something, anything to happen.
This is one of the few foreign films I can watch, because lets face it very difficult to read subtitles and watch a movie at the same time :/ Having said that it's totally worth it for this outstanding film, which isn't strictly a Horror but a story of love and loss also. Belén Rueda is great as Laura, a distraught Mother who has lost her only son and will do anything to find him again. The finale is great and the twist is both brilliant and shocking at the same time, plus the ending is lovely!
A very creepy and tense movie that has some great atmosphere. Great acting. The story was pretty good with an ending that I did not expect, even though it is something that I have seen before. The characters are very well done and the kind that you care to what happens to them. Highly recommended, especially if you like creepy ghost stories.
This thriller/horror about a boy that goes missing in a former orphanage wasn't as scary as [rec], but I jumped a number of times nevertheless ;). The film has a decent screenplay which cannot be said from most horror movies, and tension is driven really nicely by the cinematography and the music. Unlike most horror movies that I've seen, this one was satisfying.