★★★★☆ If, like me, you felt modern horror movies had lost the plot, Shiver (2008) - a wonderfully stylish chiller from Spain - may just be enough to restore your faltering faith. Director Isidro Ortiz, the man behind Fausto 5.0 (2001) and Alvaro Augustin, producer of Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Orphanage (2007), pit Julio Valverde against horrors, both real and imaginary, in this subtle shocker.
Teenager Santi (Valverde) suffers from severe photophobia, where exposure to sunlight can result in potentially fatal skin disfigurement. Desperate, his mother Julia (Mar Sodupe) takes him to a village high in the Spanish mountains where there is only limited sunlight each day. However darkness brings other terrors to this remote area, which is plagued by a creature that preys each night on local livestock. When people also start being gruesomely murdered, suspicion inevitably falls on the lonely newcomer Santi.
That master of the macabre Peter Cushing once said the...
Teenager Santi (Valverde) suffers from severe photophobia, where exposure to sunlight can result in potentially fatal skin disfigurement. Desperate, his mother Julia (Mar Sodupe) takes him to a village high in the Spanish mountains where there is only limited sunlight each day. However darkness brings other terrors to this remote area, which is plagued by a creature that preys each night on local livestock. When people also start being gruesomely murdered, suspicion inevitably falls on the lonely newcomer Santi.
That master of the macabre Peter Cushing once said the...
- 10/19/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
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