Atrocious

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Atrocious

R,

2011,

1h 15m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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56%

18 Reviews

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29%

1,000+ Ratings

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56%

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18 Reviews

29%

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1,000+ Ratings

Spanish police find film footage that documents a vacationing family's fatal encounter with a terrifying urban legend.

Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Sep 16, 2011

3/5

The film, shot through the siblings' video cameras, is obviously cheaply made. Still, it rachets up the tension better than most of its genre.

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Xan Brooks

Guardian

Sep 15, 2011

2/5

The kids are screaming and the camera joggles us to the point of nausea but, at the end, the film's big reveal is just a cheap, dull shimmer.

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Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

Aug 16, 2011

The filmmaker is betting the bank on the unstable Blair Witch textures, and damn if subjective footage of implacable darkness, with screams coming from the woods you can barely see, doesn't still make your motor neurons jump, spark, and tingle.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 9, 2025

3/5

Even with its obviously low production value, it still brings enough innovation to the found footage genre to make for an entertaining watch.

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Oct 25, 2011

2/5

there just isn't enough substance to stretch it out to a feature-length film

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Oct 21, 2011

2.5/5

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Albus M

Nov 13, 2018

Not nearly as scary as it should've been. The running through the forest at night wasn't very scary because (a) not much happened, (b) it was way to dark to see anything and the camera was too shaky. Decent premise (not original. but a solid blueprint) but not executed well. During scenes with the most suspense and tension, the camera was too shaky and it was too dark.

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Kylo S

Nov 12, 2017

Such a nice location, the house as well as the outsides, and this is all they came up with . . . I ended up skipping through it at some point because it didn't just bore me, but actually pissed me off. The last 15 minutes don't warrant for an hour of pure senseless boredom. If they were trying to build up tension, they failed . . . If you actually want to sit through this, make sure you get a dubbed version - I now know how aggrevating I find the Spanish language.

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Fernando Barreda Luna

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Jose Masegosa

Carlos

Cristian Valencia

Cristian

Chus Pereiro

Debora

Rafael Amaya

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Synopsis

Spanish police find film footage that documents a vacationing family's fatal encounter with a terrifying urban legend.

Director: Fernando Barreda Luna
Producer: David Sanz
Screenwriter: Fernando Barreda Luna
Distributor: Salient Media
Production Co: Silencio Rodamos S.L., Nabu Films S.A de C.V.
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Grisly Images)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 17, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 18, 2017
Runtime: 1h 15m

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