Mario and Clara, his pregnant girlfriend, try to find a new apartment to settle in as soon as possible, so they go to visit one in a distant neighborhood that seems abandoned. Once there, things are not as they expected.
Direction
Balagueró wrings sweat from every creaking floorboard.
Production
That building IS the villain — production design from nightmares.
Acting
Macarena Gómez's panic feels devastatingly authentic.
Director
Jaume Balagueró
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 'Películas para no dormir' (Films to Keep You Awake), a Spanish TV horror series that gave six directors free rein to terrify audiences in 67-minute installments.
Shot in actual decaying Barcelona buildings scheduled for demolition — the real estate crisis horror hit different in 2006 Spain, and hits even harder now.
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