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Shiver

2008 · 91 min

A cold, creeping unease settles in as an isolated mountain village turns hostile, keeping you wary of every shadow and neighbour.

Directed by
Isidro Ortiz
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Starring
Junio Valverde, Blanca Suárez, Jimmy Barnatán
Overview
Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants begin to reveal themselves as strangely xenophobic. When terrible, violent events begin to occur, Santi becomes first a pariah at school and then strongly suspected by the police of hideous murders. Santi himself, however, wonders if he is not the next victim.

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Directed by
Isidro Ortiz
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Starring
Junio Valverde, Blanca Suárez, Jimmy Barnatán
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • betrayal
  • fate
  • survival
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror6
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
horror, thriller
Directed by
Isidro Ortiz
Written by
Alejandro Hernández, José Gamo Suárez, Isidro Ortiz, David Muñoz
Starring
Junio Valverde, Blanca Suárez, Jimmy Barnatán, Mar Sodupe, Francesc Orella, Roberto Enríquez, Josep Maria Domènech, Paul Berrondo
Music
Fernando Velázquez
Cinematography
Josep M. Civit
Runtime
91 min
Country
Spain
Languages
Spanish

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