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Venus

2022 · 101 min

A grimy, blood-soaked descent into a cursed apartment block that keeps tightening its grip, mixing family desperation with lurid supernatural dread.

Directed by: Jaume Balagueró
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Starring: Ester Expósito, Ángela Cremonte, Inés Fernández

Overview: Lucía, a club dancer on the run, takes refuge in a sinister building on the outskirts of Madrid where her sister Rocío lives with her daughter Alba.

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Directed by: Jaume Balagueró
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Starring: Ester Expósito, Ángela Cremonte, Inés Fernández

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
family
survival
violence
fate
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	6
Horror	8
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	8
Darkness	9
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Directed by: Jaume Balagueró
Written by: Fernando Navarro, Jaume Balagueró
Starring: Ester Expósito, Ángela Cremonte, Inés Fernández, Magüi Mira, Aten Soria, María José Sarrate, Sofía Reyes, Fernando Valdivielso
Music: Vanessa Garde
Cinematography: Pablo Rosso
Runtime: 101 min
Country: Spain
Languages: Spanish

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