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Jhow A filme lento, plot óbvio e nada original, personagem principal é uma porta, incrivelmente burra, não consegue abrir uma porta, literalmente. Filme horrível não percam seu tempo assistindo. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/29/23 Full Review Sergio M EL AMBIENTE ABRUMANTE DE SENSAION DE CLAUSTROFOBIA ES LENTA PERO ES BUENA ME GUSTARON LAS ACTUACIONES Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/01/22 Full Review lilac m Kind of slow and obvious and it doesn't explains the rules. It's ok to watch without paying too much attention. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/26/22 Full Review brian a The movie starts showing a scene that makes all the sense at the end, but in a way it is a hidden spoiler of the movie. The plot is slow to get you into the story, with a good development surrounded by subtle details or winks of what happens in the plot, the antagonist's thoughts and the future of the film, which can go unnoticed if you don't pay attention. All this develops a discomfort for the viewer, but at the same time gives as a negative point how predictable it becomes, also does not know how to take advantage of the past of the protagonists and / or antagonists, losing potential in that section, but it does not cease to be a good movie for these points. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Grandma 2022 Movie ReviewLa Abuela (The Grandmother) tells us the story of Susana, a model who has to leave her life and her work in Paris to return to Madrid. Ella's grandmother, Pilar de Ella, apparently just suffered a stroke. Years ago, when Susana's parents died, her grandmother raised her as if she were her own daughter. Now Susana needs to find someone to take care of her grandmother Pilar de ella, but what should only be a few days with her grandmother will end up becoming a terrifying nightmare.I have to say, if you've seen "The Skeleton Key" from 2015, you'll know what this film is about from the beginning, this thanks to the first scene they show, no matter what as the movie progresses they play with the viewer to mislead him into thinking it might be a ghost tape or possible possession; On the contrary, if you haven't seen the tape I mentioned above, it can definitely become an interesting story.Something interesting is the complicated situation that Susana will go through, she has her life made, she has important things to do and she puts everything on pause to take care of her grandmother, forgetting for a moment the horror genre, the director Paco Plaza shows us in a way briefly how difficult it can be to provide palliative care to a person whose life expectancy is relatively short due to illness.The film promises much more than it really offers, but the best thing it has are the performances by Almudena Amor as Susana and Vera Valdez as Pilar, on the one hand Susana goes from being the worried granddaughter to being the terrified granddaughter of the strange events that she experiences with her grandmother and Pilar goes from being a needy grandmother to becoming a gloomy being; however, they could have better explained the interaction of the grandmothers with the granddaughters, since it feels like a gap without further character development, almost at the end they show a somewhat important connection, albeit briefly.Paco Plaza seeks to convey terror with moments of tension with his dark shots, or some creepy images trying to give a sinister atmosphere, but he does not succeed, the problem is that the pace of the film is slow, certainly one would expect a better polished story and little predictable by the director of "REC" or "Veronica" that we can not say they were great tapes, therefore the result is a predictable movie with few scares, nothing out of the ordinary.Rating: 7.0 Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Possibly the product of a guilty conscience from someone who hasn't seen one's grandmother in a while, Paco Plaza's film finds Almudena Amor's young model, Susana, summoned back from Paris to her grandmother in Madrid who needs full-time care after suffering a stroke; and naturally, strange, nightmarish things begin to happen in the menacing old Spanish apartment they now share. With the mostly two-women one-location set-up of this film lending itself perfectly to being made during the pandemic, Plaza's film turns out to be a fairly generic Spanish horror film that relies a little too much on jump scares to get a reaction from its audience. It also has a narrative inconsistency that really bugs me, because it doesn't make any sense for whoever is scaring the bejesus out of Susana to do so when that will defeat whatever nefarious going-on's that is being cooked up here. Consequently, all the scary stuff here are purely for the benefit of the audience and make little narrative logical sense. Vera Valdez is suitably creepy as the mostly mute and occasionally cackling Grandma Pilar, but Amor is often reduced to your typical scream queen, especially in the latter half. There seems to be some vague commentary on youth and vanity but they feel inconsequential in the context here, while the fairly guessable ending might incur the wrath of minority groups as well as Age Concern, but I won't elaborate any more as spoilers that way lie. With an over-egged score and a protracted script that might have been better suited to an hour-long episode in a horror anthology series, I think this is a missed opportunity as the central idea is not without merits, but a different construction of the story will make it work much better. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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