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Version: Spanish audio, English subtitles (by SBS)

I don't watch the World Movies channel very often, but when I do, it is usually to watch something awesome like 'Tears of the Black Tiger' or some live-action Asterix movie. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other Spanish horror films I've seen, so I have to hope to hope that the rest aren't as mind-numbingly boring as 'Who's Watching?'.

University students Toni (Antonio Hortelano) and Roberto (Lorenzo Armenteros) are on their way to party, but they are faced with the dilemma of having an essay due the next day. The solution? The internet! While trying to download an essay, they have a chat with someone called Keller. This Keller fellow seems slightly unstable, and informs Toni and Roberto that they are now playing Keller's game. From then on, things go bad: Toni, Roberto and a group of their friends are routinely kidnapped and enjoy near death experiences and it appears as though someone is watching them. That oughta show those no-good punks Toni and Roberto that plagiarism is wrong.

'Who's Watching?' is a paranoia thriller at heart. That is made painfully obvious at the very start when we are told that thousands of camera are watching us every day, monitoring our safety. I think I lost all interest in the film right then. I don't know what is about paranoia thrillers, but I generally can't get into them. If the film worked as a horror movie, it would probably have been more interesting. Problem is, it doesn't work at all.

The script is terrible. It plods along, and frequently fails to make any sense. I generally reserve judgments about acting when a language barrier is involved, but none of the actors in this seem all that convincing. They really belong in a slasher instead of trying to tackle some sort psychological horror. Probably due to the poor script and acting, there is no tension or atmosphere, and the story twists are predictable. It is much longer than it should be: long, drawn out, and boring. If it was shorter and condensed, it may have sustained more interest.

'Who's Watching' is boring, and a poor horror film. I really can't think of anyone who might enjoy it - 1/10

Two university students want to go to party, but one of them has an assessment due in the next day so the pair head to the library to copy and paste an essay from the Internet and presto the job is done. But while on the computer they accidentally stumble across a chat room and meet a person that calls himself or herself Kellar. This user asks them if they would like to be part of a game, without knowing what they are getting themselves into they accepts the challenge. From now on a group of university students become trapped in what they first consider a game, run by an unseen force. But soon the game turns their world upside down by turning into a frenetic nightmare and murder becomes part of it all.

Hell! What a confusing mess. Is this flick suppose to be high-tech paranoia thriller that's doing a social commentary on the use of technology and how it can become an intrusion in our lives? If so the material doesn't provide any insight, actually it seems there to cover its shortage of new ideas, by ripping off every other horror/thriller films in the last couple of years. It lacks any sense of creativity and it tries to be remotely clever in its premise that is plain laughable. The surprises are predictable because we've seen them all before. I don't want to name the films it borrows from, as it would spoil the story, but you'll definitely know when you see it. It throws in one or two jump scares, actually there was a real lack of anything that resembled scares and suspense. It might not be highly original, but that was its least of its problem. That goes to how tediously boring it was! The excitement levels fly like a bullet… NOT! Because most the time your waiting for interesting things to happen, sure there's a lot of chasing about and bizarre tricks. But you'll be yelling, "Come on, just get on with it!" because it all leads to nothing and just what the heck was going on!? When it comes to its conclusion you want to know how does that all work? Because its just highly ridiculous compared with what first started off. Nothing is explained and was there a hint of the supernatural? It's a frustrating maze of confusion with too many things that don't add up and make you go "huh?" The ponderously shallow and I wouldn't have clue what your on about script doesn't help either and the performances are so mundane that the extras added more to the flick than their blank expressions could.

The garnished production looks top shape, um but that's it! It tries to be disturbing in its context and violence, but it fails miserably. The editing was rather disconnected and the special effects lacked simplicity and noisy sound effects were atrocious. I'll be damn the story is bubbling with a lot imagination, ah no that's mind-numbing clichés, you get stupid actions taken by teens, people being stalk by a menacing shadow, people going off alone and *yawn*. So the point was? To scare us, failed. To give us a satire, failed. So what does it equal? It's nothing surprising with too much riff raff and absurdity that you leaves you going *hmm* what a waste of time.

It's a film that wants to be something that it just doesn't eventuate into. Physcological gripping… no way, a demanding mystery… you got to be kidding. Sigh, honestly who cares? When watching static on your TV is more entertaining, that's far from a good thing.

P.S Maybe I'm being too hard on it, but it just really rubbed me up the wrong way.

This film is... uuh... let me think carefully..... crap.

A rather expensive movie with teenagers, Madrid's underground, things directly ripped off from another (American) movies, cheese blue screen effects and an ineffective aura of silly mystery which fails to absorb the viewer. The plot is unbearable twisted and laden with absurd, unreal situations, appropriate only for the stoned mind (situations in Jacob's Ladder are generally more believable), and seems to lead to nowhere, until the very end of the movie, when you really realise how silly this movie is! Not only that; in my opinion this movie's been an awful attempt to imitate the typical American teenager-murder movie, so we are landed with the very worst of Spanish films and the very worst of pop-corn Hollywood films.

Spain is not a good country for film-making, I should say. In Spain you can only make certain kinds of movies. Moving out of that is shown to lead to dreadful consequences. Not only the budgets are usually very tight; so seems to be Spanish filmmakers' imagination & taste(OK, pick out a few such as A. Amenábar, Álex de la Iglesia, Santiago Segura or Javier Fesser). Did you know that in DVD&Video Rental stores, 'Spanish films' is shown as a whole category? That reinforces the concept I presented earlier: Spain is not a country where a filmmaker can develop, generally. I'll tell you more: Spanish movies' box office is known to do ill most of the times (with a few exceptions like the blockbusting saga 'Torrente' by S. Segura). People here go to American movies most of the time. Should we try to compete and make movies which people will like better that those (quote) stupid American movies with a lot of FX&budget but horrible everythingelse? The answer is simple: NO; we'll do something easier: via advertisement we'll do out best to brainwash the audience into disliking American movies (and culture in general), which are utter crap, and liking OUR very dull film-making style, which is to be divine. That's brilliant thank you very much. "You need to watch more Spanish films"... like hell! Don't be fooled! Only YOU can decide what you need to watch!

Sorry for the lengthy, vehement dissertation. In conclusion, if they wanted to make a horror movie, they've thoroughly succeeded; the movie is "horrible"

1 out of 10

This was quite a silly and very confusing film ! It starts off as a couple breaks up. From then there's a bunch of mind games and it appears the main characters are being hunted by some mysterious people . I think the ending is stupid - it has no real conclusion. At some points in the movie, it was okay but the ending was worse than i could've imagined. I do not recommend this movie at all ! I give it two stars .. i'll be nice .. but a lot of people did give it one . Yes, it's quite awful . Who's Watching is a silly thriller movie , which should only be seen if you are completely & utterly bored. If you do choose to watch it, prepare to be confused.

As the comments said before ... this movie was boring. I've bought the DVD on the flea-market for 1,50€ and I thought, what can I do wrong? Well, I was proved, that I could have spent the money on something else. The only good part of the movie was when they opened the masks in that fancy house where there was a party. Okay, there's a party ... but from one scene to the other - where the heck are the guests??? Same with the restaurant and the subway-station. ... Talking of subways, when Susana is on that motorcycle and her hands are being taped on it, Toni and Alex are trying to rescue her, 'cause a train is slowly coming closer. Here's the weird part. When they went into the tunnel, it was approximately 100m away from the end of the platform. But when the train chases the motorcycles, it seems like the platform is kilometers away. After watching it, I really regretted it. The idea of the movie was good though, but the result as a whole wasn't good at all.