Isn't it mauvais ton for filmmakers to use ideas everyone used 1000 times already? Isn't it called 'cliché'? Why should I spend 2 hours of my life to watch what I knew would happen after just 15 min from the start? Is there anyone who is smart enough and who has at least little experience in watching movies or reading mystery novels who didn't understand that the wife in coma just wanted to warn the main character? And attacked (being in main character's body) her husband for a reason? Didn't everyone understand from the very start that the husband did something to his wife so she became paralyzed? I doubt that. So my question is: why rating is so high (on Russian Kinopoisk it's 6.4!!!)?
The Sleeping Woman
2024 [SPANISH]
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
Ana, a nursing assistant, begins to feel attracted to Agustín, the husband of the woman in a vegetative state that she has been hired to take care of. Soon she begins to be harassed by strange paranormal phenomena that seem to try to throw her out of the house and separate her from Agustín.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
December 03, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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So frigging predictable...
I mean, it's fine. Almudena Amor is this century's Spanish Jamie Lee Curtis.
It really is more like a 5.5. The story is mmm ok, but the win is the lovely Almudena Amor, the direction, and the editing.
Rolling up on HBOMax today this movie is #2 in Spain, and after watching I get why. It's an easy watch with all the things Spanish horror lovers love - supernatural elements, blood, seemingly endearing characters, nudity, a little more blood, an affair, quick zoom edits, creepy repetitive music, but the coup de gras for me was the wink and a nod to Amor's catalogue at the very end a la "abuela," referencing a character but also the just a few years ago movie she was is which has nothing to do with this movie. Moving on.
In short, Amor possesses the young believable ingenue just as Jamie Lee did 40 some odd years ago, and while at least in this interation she doesn't qualify as a "scream queen" proper, her ability to distill her character and keep the wee plot afloat makes it all worth it.