WARNING: SPOILERS. Junio Valverde is excellent as always as the 17-year-old protagonist Santi in this flick, although the "horror" genre here calls for the kind of over-the-top acting that can't bring out the best in any actor. Although there are a few mild surprises, Valverde is really the only bright spot and the only factor that led me to actually finish the movie, aside from some neat cinematographic touches and some brief but salutary film time by Blanca Suárez as the girlfriend and Mar Sodupe as his mother. Santi's "photophobia" (actually a physical reaction to sunlight), so prominently featured at the beginning, never leads anywhere, and his growing canines are a puzzlingly naked and unresolved red herring.
Nevertheless, there is a good deal of beauty in the portrayal of the shadowy rural Spanish village among the hills which anyone can enjoy.
Nevertheless, there is a good deal of beauty in the portrayal of the shadowy rural Spanish village among the hills which anyone can enjoy.