Mercy Falls – Geisterwache (2005)

Mercy Falls – Geisterwache: Directed by Jaume Balagueró. With Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Gemma Jones. At her new job in a rundown children’s hospital, a nurse desperately tries to keep her patients safe from a plague of random, mysterious attacks.

“What could I say about u0026quot;Fragileu0026quot;? Well… it was a rainy evening in my town (totally true, not to give effects), and instead of going to the town party I decided to go to the cinema. I had a good idea because Iu0026#39;ve always admired Balagueró (Los Sin Nombre… great), and I love horror films too, but, like Iu0026#39;ve said, I had seen three horror movies before and none of them really frightened me. So I got to the cinema and waited for it to start. The atmosphere is very good, it seems they worked a lot to make it, but not only the atmosphere was right like in other films, the story is convincing too, not just u0026quot;killing-screaming-the endu0026quot;. It starts about a nurse who goes to work in a hospital in an English island. The hospital is about to be closed and the few children who are still there are supposed to be out of there soon. But itu0026#39;s not as easy as it seems, strange things happen in that hospital, one of the girls see somebody who lived and died there, and that u0026quot;somebodyu0026quot; hurts the kids, by breaking their bones most of the times. The real interest is in what is behind that story, who is that somebody, and why he or she behaves like that. The acting is correct, Elena Anaya, Richard Roxburgh (finally a good role for him!), Calista Flockhart and the kids work efficiently. And most… Iu0026#39;d never been so frightened for a long time. I think that good stories are that which scare me. The same happened with u0026quot;The Changelingu0026quot; (somehow similar, somehow different). But worth seeing both of them. I recommend it.”