Grand Piano (2013)
Apr 1, 2025Man Trapped at a Piano by a Sniper
Essentially a classical music version of Phone Booth with Elijah Wood trapped at a grand piano in front of a concert audience by a sniper. The results prove quite gripping
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Open Windows (2014)
May 1, 2015Internet Stalker and Surveillance Thriller
This Nacho Vigalondo film prefigured Unfriended with its telling of a film that all takes place on a computer screen. This is the far more adventurous film with a wildly entertaining plot about celebrity stalking, featuring some outrageously improbable twists and technological feats
Marshland (2014)
Oct 4, 2015Spanish Police Procedural/Serial Killer
A strong and tightly wound police procedural, not unreminiscent in the pairing of its two detectives and 1970s setting of the first season of True Detective. What makes the plot, which would otherwise be average, stand out is the beautifully desolate setting of the remote Spanish marshlands
The Bar (2017)
Nov 15, 2019Dark Comedy About People Trapped in a Bar During a Deadly Outbreak
Spain's Alex de la Iglesia has become a specialist in comedies with a dark bite. This centres around a crosscut of characters trapped inside a bar during the outbreak of a deadly infection
The Invisible Guardian (2017)
May 4, 2020Spanish Serial Killer Thriller
The first in a trilogy of Spanish detective thriillers adapted from Dolores Redondo concerning ritual child killings, a serial killer and a Bigfoot creature the suggestion of a local Bigfoot type creature in the background
Mirage (2018)
Sep 7, 2021Alternate Timeline
Intelligent and absorbing thriller where a freak storm allows a woman to communicate with the past only to inadvertently create a new timeline where her life is very different
The Legacy of the Bones (2019)
Jan 22, 2024Spanish Detective Thriller/Ritual Killings
The second of the films based on Dolores Redondo’s police procedurals, this heads into an admirably dark and perverse place with plenty of jolt twists
The Grandmother (2021)
May 14, 2022Sinister Grandmother
Paco Plaza, best known for the [Rec] movies, returns with an unsettlingly effective film about a girl forced to tend her grandmother only to find increasingly sinister things going on
The Communion Girl (2022)
Sep 15, 2025Cursed Doll
Spanish-made film that feels like a mash-up of Annabelle and The Nun about the communion doll belonging to a girl who went missing that appears to curse all it touches