When John is released from a psychiatric center where he has been hospitalized for a long time, he decides to move into the house of his dead mother, whose inheritance is in dispute.
Cinematography
Dreamlike rural Spain that feels one wrong step from nightmare.
Acting
Renaud Verley's eyes—hollow, knowing, never quite trustworthy.
Direction
Claudio Guerín Hill's final film; he died falling the bell tower day after filming.
Director
Claudio Guerín Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Claudio Guerín Hill plunged to his death from the actual bell tower used in filming, making this cinema's most haunting posthumous release.
Part of Spain's 'fantaterror' boom—Franco-era horror that smuggled social critique through genre conventions.
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