Moody, emotional, intelligent and well acted horror

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2011)

Well above average haunted house film. As emotional as it is scary.
The same could be said of most of producer Guillermo Del Toro's films.
The story feels a little too familiar for most of it's length to quite make it too classic film status, although the last 10 minutes do elevate it to something more moving and more thoughtful than 95%of the genre pictures currently being made.
Wonderfully acted by Belen Rueda, as a mother whose child mysteriously disappears. Well shot as well.
The kind of film I look forward to re-watching, sure that now that I know its secrets, there's even more to be uncovered.