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I was so excited to watch this because of the dumb --obviously fake---- news article about how it was the scariest movie ever and Netflix users had to turn it off in the middle. Ugh. Don't fall for the hype. This is a very AVERAGE scary movie. I give it 7 stars because 1) it has a story that kinda makes sense 2) Catholic schools with blind nuns and basements are creepy 3) the little boy in the movie is fricking adorable 4) I love foreign movies 5) Ouja boards are scary. DO NOT mess with them 6) full Monty ghost was creepy 7) special effects were pretty convincing.

Somehow, I fell asleep at the very end of the movie. So, I have no idea how it ended. It wasn't that scary.

VERONICA is a somewhat overrated Spanish horror movie detailing a typical haunting/possession. It's set in 1991 and involves a teenage girl who meddles with a Ouija board and subsequently finds her apartment haunted by the spirit of her dead father. I saw this advertised as the scariest Spanish horror film since REC but it's a far cry from that zombie masterpiece. I found this inferior to most Japanese ghost stories, relying far too much on noisiness for effect: people running around screaming while the camera shakes, along with the usual jump scares and loud foreboding music. I much prefer a subtle, creeping dread to get across a real shivering kind of horror. This film is light on plot and rather predictable when it comes to the story, with only a stand-out couple of disturbing moments. The characters are rather unlikeable too.

The film is based on the events that involved Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro and her family happened on 1991 . In fact , it is set Madrid 1991, where a 15-year-old teen called Veronica : Sandra Escacena , takes care her siblings when her mummy : Ana Torrent , is slaving away long time out of home , at a local bar . Veronica is a responsible teenager that has to become herself the substitute mother caring her three brothers , replacing her at housework . Then Veronica along with her schoolmates , during a weird sun eclipse , play a seance of the Ouija board, including a moving crystal glass and inhalating a rare smoke emerging , when she finds herself a supernatural evil . Veronica is beginning to feel weird presences and strange creature threatening her brothers and herself . Step by step something violent and wild will start to infect everyone around Veronica . And she starts to experience strong paranormal activity in her home . In the background showing up a painting of a pack of wolves chasing a deer and the usual music by Spanish Rock band Heroes Del Silencio . Someone answered your call! . A mystery until today still remains unexplained! ..I don't want to know about evil, only want to know about love!..

Decent terror movie with thrills , chills , tension , and creepy happenings . Scary and terrifying images when an obscure supernatural being plunges from the other side , making sinister and mysterious appearances . At the climax happens shocking and horrific images of possession and violent attacks . A scary horror picture shot in fits and starts with disconcerting plot , regarding a ghastly possession , as a teenager suffering from the effects of being possessed by a devil . Horrifying and terrifying images about a possessed girl by a malevolent and heinous spirit causing creepy , scary , awful and terrible moments . Genuinely horrible moments overcome some obvious plot devices . This is a juicy terrifying material fashioning an iconic diabolic possession , providing screams , thrills , shocks and chilling scenes . It has an extremely known premise about possession that spawns the film in ups and downs . The movie is based on actual events happened in 1991 about a girl from Vallecas slum called Estefania who along with his classmates convocated the spirit of a deceased boyfriend of one of them by means of the Ouija board . Then this 18-year-old girl called Estafania was really possesed , suffering convulsion and shortly after being interned at Gregorio Marañon hospital , and she suddenly died , as she would die on August 14, 1991, six months after first playing the Ouija board ; diagnosis : lung suffocation . And the paranormal activity increased after her death . However, many years before, in the early 70s happened some astonishing events about Poltergeister phenomenon that caused the Police Security Direction hired an expert priest called Jose Maria Pilón to investigate the frightened deeds which he details meticulously the supernatural events observed in the incredible house . Has been said this was first strange case documented by Police about frenzied paranormal phenomenon .

It contains an adequate and sinister cinematography by Pablo Rosso , Paco Plaza's regular cameraman . And frightening , suspenseful musical score by Eugenio Mira , adding modern songs by Heroes Del Silencio . The motion picture was well directed by Paco Plaza . He is a good director with much success particularly in terror genre . He has written or directed with Jaume Balaguero the successful Rec saga formed by : ¨Rec 1, Rec 2 , Rec Genesis and Rec Apocalypse¨ . As well as other terror movies as ¨The second name¨ , ¨Romasanta¨, ¨Christmas tale¨ and he wrote the American film : ¨Quarantine¨ . He has also made some shorts and documentary : OT . And his only and recent thriller, ¨Quien a hierro mata¨, with Luis Tosar . Rating 7/10 . Decent and interesting horror movie . Well worth watching for terror lovers.

People who have said this film is the scariest horror film ever need to seriously get their heads checked. The actors did a good enough job and some of the scenes - the opening one in particular - were shot very well in my opinion however the film falls victim to a very predictable plot including the classic 'it was me all along' ending (I know it was based on a true story but I mean did we really need the montage explaining this surprise 'twist'?) and very weak horror which didn't manage to unnerve or scare me once. Would not recommend.