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That was an excellent one.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I found this movie on Netflix by accident and was mesmerized by it. The story took me into a world I did not know yet resonated with my own horrific childhood and that of the heroine of this movie. All of the elements of the film were like a nightmare that you see through the eyes of the heroine and how she comes to grips with the horror of what is going in her home town and how members of her own family may be involved. She also has to deal with reopened wounds by verbal confrontations from her family, townspeople and strangers. Her strength is constantly challenged and commendable. I recommend this movie as it is haunting and a testament to the strength of a child surviving a mother's loathing.

It's OK if you liked it, loved it and/or wrote a review giving it a high score. Some people like stuff, some don't. It's OK. But, in my very honest opinion, it's bad. It actually took me 3 days to watch the entire thing. It was so boring that I could only watch parts of it each day; and I just finished watching it because i wanted to put some closure into it, and I was giving it a chance to save itself at the end. But no. It sucks. It tries to be a police-thriller, and it fails. It also tried to be about supernatural-horror, and it fails there as well. The scenes are disconnected, the police-thriller parts don't fit with the supernatural ones. The main character, Amaia, is supposed to be an intelligent and hard-case investigator (she left Spain to join the FBI, and suddenly she is back in Spain). But she is weak, always afraid, cries all the time (more than half the movie), everyone treats her like human refuse and she allows it, remaining silent and crying. She is a FBI agent, and suddenly she has police authority in Spain, but no one respects her, so she is kicked out of the case, but is praised at the end...even after failing horribly. The cast is bad. Each actor has only one facial expression. Perhaps they went to the same acting school as Kristen Stewart. The characters have no depth at all, which makes them all awkward. From time to time, the "supernatural" aspect of the movie pops up, and it makes no sense. At all. Weird stuff and occult-related just get thrown into our faces. No explanation, no elaboration. Nothing. And that's where the "Invisible Guardian" is supposed to be. But this entire part could be removed from the movie and it wouldn't make a difference! After all, it's only mentioned for like 3 minutes overall. It looks like they were thinking "oh, we're making something with a supernatural background? no problem! we'll just put an elderly aunt there who believes all this crap and plays Tarot and we'll give her some scenes." These scenes don't make any sense and are irrelevant. They all fail at their goal. It's supposed to be scary (I think), but it's just silly. And the investigators, well, Amaia and some other dude look at some photos and suddenly they describe the entire psychological profile of the suspect. Everything. Just by looking at a couple of photos. That's the part where we're supposed to say "wow, they're really serious and intelligent cops". But all I could say was "wth did you smoke, dude?". By the very end, they throw in some information that was hidden for nearly 110 minutes, so now everything makes sense and the criminal is discovered. At the very end, Amaia, once again, gives an entire psychological profile review on him, with info she never had access to. Oh, but they also found nearly 100 bodies in a cave. Yeah, but doesn't matter. Case closed. Congratulations. Now everyone in the city likes you. They had no reason to hate you before, but hate you they did. Your psycho mother nearly killed you when you were a little kid, she got locked up in the crazy-ward, attacked nurses, ate parts of their faces. But it's you they all hate. But now they like you and respect you. Even though you weren't really the one the caught the bad guy at the end. Have I mentioned the acting is really bad? Well, it is. The crazy stuff that goes on in Amaia's head? She may be crazy as her mother. The fact heat everyone in that small village knew everyone, but didn't know the real story of Amaia's past nor had any clue as to who the murderer was? It's all good, they had a FBI detective (that they all hated) to solve the case. But what of the bodies? I said. case. closed!

One dimensional characters and an anti-climatic, predictable conclusion. I love crime thrillers so much that I'm generally really forgiving when it comes to characters and story lines but this one was just too cliché even for me, especially considering the abundance of really good murder-centered TV series out there these days. Either the murder itself has to be unique or the main characters need to be interesting or emotionally engaging...unfortunately, neither is true in this case.One solid point, however, goes to the atmosphere. Dark, spooky, always raining. Small town, with a nearby forest. Wonderful Gothic overtones. I rarely get see Spain depicted like this in films. And finally, a side note. This also reminded me a bit of The Bone Collector, where the main protagonist is a female detective trying to smoke out a serial killer and is guided by a black mentor who just injects little kernels of crucial info that helps her break open the case. The entire movie plays out like a color by numbers book. :(

I've rarely seen a picture/movie that is from a country which language I don't really comprehend. I was intrigued by the movie since I'm trying to learn Spanish and it's a movie from Spain, so first off - very good. The language is captivating, even though they speak waaaaay to fast for me. The suspense was there, and at the end it really got me. But first things first. The acting was really well done, the cinematography was really nicely done and most of the script I really enjoyed. However, there were a few things that I didn't really like, well, I didn't understand; - Why was her mother such a b**** to her, but not the other sisters? -Did Flora and Ros not know what their mother did to Amaia? -Did her father just sweep it under the rug and pretend everything was fine? - How did Flora know where to find Victor and Amaia? - After, I suspect, a good number of years as a cop, how come when she really needed to, it was like she had no clue how to defend herself? I would have thought she could at least have tried to disarm and knock him out before getting to the girl and rescue her. If it hadn't been for Flora's miraculous timing, they'd both be dead. - Are we sure Flora had nothing to do with it? I have even more questions, but I'll leave it here. I still think it was a good movie and I would probably recommend it to others who want to see a good suspense movie. But I would say that the ending is a bit vague and leaves you with a tonne of questions.