Eschewing gore for subtlety, the film builds tension by encouraging your affinity with the individual characters. The Hidden Face works because it has no such constraints. Productions from large Hollywood studios seem honour-bound to include as much visual mayhem as they can, meaning that audiences increasingly have to look beyond mainstream American cinema (in this case to Spain) for cutting edge frights. In the age of the modern horror movie, film-makers appear to have forgotten that often what isn't seen is much more unsettling than anything CGI wizardry can come up with. Everything is fine until Fabiana begins hearing sounds when alone in the house, becoming convinced that there is more to her strange new home than meets the eye. Accepting that she has gone for good Adrián moves on and meets a young waitress called Fabiana (Martina García) with whom he falls in love and brings to live in the house.
Then suddenly one morning Belén disappears. As time passes Belén convinces herself that Adrián is having an affair with a member of the orchestra, which leads her to become increasingly paranoid and hostile towards him. John / Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, Clara Lago, Martina García / Release Date: TBC Though The Hidden Face, the new thriller from Andrés Baiz, the director behind 2007's critically acclaimed crime thriller Satan á s, is not strictly a horror film, it has all the qualities for a truly unsettling experience - atmosphere, suspense and a twisted climax which leaves you guessing until the final credits.Īdrián (Quim Gutiérrez) and his fiancé Belén (Clara Lago) move into an isolated mansion outside the Colombian city of Bogotá, after he takes up the position of conductor in residence with the city's orchestra. Review: Hidden Face / Cert: TBC / Director: Andrés Baiz / Screenplay: Andrés Baiz, Stewart St.
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