Ausentes is a well told Spanish drama/terror movie written and directed by (Daniel Calparsoro) , since I’m not a big fan of Spanish Cinema, I thought of giving it a try and it certainly kept my attention during the 1hour and 25 minutes.

The director made a great work, while showing the world of Julia (Ariadna Gil) .

Julia is a publicist that has been laid off, and since she has great experience no one will give her a new job. While doing the transition from her work days to just a regular housewife she finds the challenge of keep herself together.

On their new house everything seems to be peace and tranquility but not for Julia that starts seeing things in the house TV’s, since everything is connected to the neighborhood security system, they won’t pay attention to the TV that switches from regular TV channels to security cameras around the new suburb they just move in.

Her boyfriend (Jordi Molla) kids Felix (Nacho Perez) and Luis (Omar Muñoz) will challenge poor Julia about everything, they will mess things around, and will make her go nuts, plus seeing and hearing  things that she just can’t understand is not helpful. Trying to find the peace that she’s looking, she will start looking for solutions and will create a new way to move around the house, so everyone can be safe.

Little Luis might be on her side, but at the same time he don’t understand what’s going on and Felix is one of those love/hate kids that will spice up the whole story.

The color in the movie is always faded and it gives you a good idea of what to expect and how things are going to be solved.

The movie is really dynamic and it won’t give you too much time to think, you will want to know what’s going on and what they are thinking.

Hope everyone can enjoy this movie as I did.

PS : Nacho Perez is also starring in the film of Pedro Almodovar ” Bad education  “

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The review above is writen by SDJosh as a guest article.

Another review by the same author is Un Hilito de Sangre “A trickle of blood”