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Director: Rigoberto Castañeda
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From Time Out London
Rudely dunking J-horror tropes into Mexican mythology, this stunningly derivative Latin ghost chiller might have had audiences Jackson Pollocking their underwear 10 years ago. Now (unless you’ve spent the past decade down a well), only the sheer poverty of ideas is terrifying. As Iliana Fox investigates a haunted highway that left her twin sister minus both her legs and lost in a coma, the scares stack up like faded Xeroxes. Nightmare visions, smash-cut jumps, creepy kids, ghosts with black hair, spectral whispers, blood in the sink, a vengeful legend from the past… Still, writer/director Rigoberto Castañeda apes Nakata, Shimizu and co with slickster confidence and if it carries no cross-cultural wallop, DoP Alejandro Martínez’s Mexico shadowland – dank sewers, claustrophobic interiors and netherworld forests – at least feels new.Author: Jonathan Crocker
Time Out London Issue 1946: December 5-11 2007
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- Francis said...
- Posted on Dec 12 2007 16:00 I saw this on friday. Not that bad. Yes it has subtitles but once you get over that its not bad. Chilling and there are plenty of jumps!
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Cast & crew
Director: Rigoberto Castañeda
Cast: Adriá Collado, Illeana Fox, Raul Mendez full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 103 mins
UK Release: Dec 7 2007
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