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Madrid-based Onza, one of Spain’s top indie production-distribution houses, has kicked off filming on Season 2 of hit gridlock comedy series “Traffic Jam” (“Atasco), which is set to premiere on Prime Video Spain.

It has also shared on-set photos in exclusivity with Variety.

Launched May 24 on Prime Video Spain, the first season of the series hit No. 1 on the platform the day after, with an audience warming to the unexpected, comical and engaging stories that unfold in a huge traffic jam on the outskirts of Madrid.

Written and directed by Rodrigo Sopeña, as the series’ Season 1, the six new episodes continue the producers’ bet on a renowned Spanish star cast, this time featuring Silvia Abril, Carlos Sobera (“Little Coincidences”), Adriana Torrebejano, Carlos Areces (“The Last Circus”), Luis Zahera and singer-actress Edurne.

Some actors from Season 1 will reprise their roles in Season 2, the producers said.

Season 1’s stellar cast featured prominent...

Everyone’s tuning in to Missing You on Netflix, and with only five episodes, it’s quick to binge-watch in no time! If you found yourself hooked on this mystery thriller and are craving more of Harlan Coben’s thrilling storytelling, you're in luck.

This New York Times bestselling author has many other shows similar to Missing You streaming on Netflix. This is due to his overall deal with the streamer, which involves him adapting his books into TV shows and movies for the streaming platform. Missing You is his most recent Netflix series adaptation, but many of his other books have already been turned into shows for the streaming service.

However, that doesn't mean they're all entertaining. We would hate for you to waste your time going through the rest of Coben's collection on Netflix without knowing which ones are truly worth the binge. That's why we're about to...

The Invisible Guest, or Contratiempo ("Setback") in the native Spanish, is a 2016 mystery thriller with twists and turns that constantly put into question how much each character knows. One of the more underrated Netflix thrillers, The Invisible Guest comes from Spanish director Oriol Paulo and stars Mario Casas and Ana Wagener. The film had a lukewarm response in Spain when it was released, but since then, it has found popularity in international markets, and since 2016, there have been six remakes in different languages.

This murder mystery thriller begins with businessman Adrián Doria (Casas) getting released on bail after being arrested for the murder of his lover, Laura Vidal (Bárbara Lennie). Adrián was found in a hotel room unconscious with his wife dead in the bathroom and the doors locked from the inside. When a mysterious witness is set to come forward and prove Adrián culpable, Adrián's lawyer brings in an...

Apple TV+ has scored the global rights to the Spanish series Tú También Lo Harías (“You Would Do It Too”).

The eight-episode mystery from Legendary Television and ESPotlight Media will be available worldwide as an Apple Original series starting Wednesday, October 30. Following its two-episode premiere, a new episode will be released every Wednesday through December 11.

Tú También Lo Harías stars Cable Girls‘ Ana Polvorosa, Berlin’s Michelle Jenner, The Plague’s Pablo Molinero and Money Heist’s José Manuel Poga.

The Spanish-language series takes place after an armed robbery on a bus near Barcelona results in the deaths of three robbers, detectives and former lovers are on a mission to uncover the truth behind the six witnesses’ inconsistent timelines before time runs out. As they navigate a world where perception often trumps reality, this lightning-fast thriller shines a spotlight on the importance of truth in today’s society and the...

Un viaje a Lisboa se convierte en un juego de detectives para unos turistas. © Disney Plus+

Disney Plus+ ha anunciado el inicio del rodaje en Lisboa de “Si es Martes, es Asesinato”, una nueva serie original dirigida por Salvador Calvo y Abigail Schaaff (“El Ministerio del Tiempo”).

La serie de comedia cuenta la historia de un grupo de turistas durante un viaje organizado a Lisboa. Un grupo de lo más diverso: jóvenes, parejas, solteros, adultos… y apenas tienen cosas en común. Cuando uno de los turistas aparece muerto la mañana siguiente de su llegada, cuatro de ellos, aficionados a las novelas policíacas y de misterio, comienzan a investigar si uno de ellos podría ser el asesino.

“Si es Martes, es Asesinato” está protagonizada por Álex García (“Antidisturbios”), Inma Cuesta (“La Novia”), Ana Wagener (“Te Estoy Amando Locamente”), Pedro Casablanc (“Extraña Forma de Vida”), y Biel Montoro (“Mano de Hierro”). El...

Una serie que promete humor, caos y mucha diversión. © Prime Video

Ya está disponible el tráiler y póster oficial de la nueva serie original de Prime Video “Atasco”.

La comedia de 6 episodios, de 25 minutos de duración cada uno, nos sumerge en el caos que genera un gran atasco nocturno que interrumpe los planes de miles de ciudadanos a las afueras de Madrid. Esta situación cotidiana será el punto de partida para tramas inesperadas, cómicas y emotivas: unos ladrones no llegarán a tiempo a la joyería que pretenden atracar, los operarios de una grúa renunciarán a su escarceo amoroso, un conductor de ambulancia buscará desesperadamente un Wc, un food truck no llegará a su destino…

Más de 25 actores de la comedia española se unen bajo la dirección de Rodrigo Sopeña (“La Habitación de Fermat”) en una serie donde cada personaje es protagonista de su propia historia autoconclusiva. El reparto coral incluye a Edu Soto,...

The streamer has also launched two reality TV projects.

Netflix Spain has unveiled a slate of seven new film and TV projects, including a romantic feature directed by Marçal Fores.

A Través De Mi Ventana (which translates as ‘Through My Window’) is an adaptation of Venezuelan author Ariana Godoy’s novel of the same name.

The novel was written via online story creation website Wattpad, which has previously been home to adaptations including Netflix hit The Kissing Booth and the successful After series.

The story centres on a young woman who is madly in love with her mysterious neighbour and...

Netflix has announced a crop of upcoming projects in Spain, including three new drama series, two original films, and a pair of reality shows.

The series are:

Intimacy (Intimidad), which has been created by Verónica Fernández and Laura Sarmiento, directed by Jorge Torregrossa, Ben Gutteridge, Marta Font, Koldo Almandoz and stars Itziar Ituño, Patricia López Arnaiz, Verónica Echegui, Ana Wagener and Emma Suárez. The show follows four women who are forced to walk the thin line that separates public life from private life after sexual video of a politician with a promising future is released.

Baruca is a six-part action series created by Victor Sierra and Xosé Morais, directed by Óscar Pedraza, and starring Alberto Ammann and Luis Callejo. It is set in the psychiatric prison Monte Baruca on December 24, when a group of armed men surround the complex and cut of all communication with the outside world.

At one of its increasingly regular presentations, on Thursday Netflix Spain unveiled seven new projects including “If Only,” a Spanish adaptation of the Netflix Turkish original canceled before shooting by Turkish authorities.

Where once Netflix would host its presentations early in the year and announce its ambitions for the next 12 months, the platform’s original Spanish programming pipeline has grown to an extent that Thursday’s showcase only covers the next few months and hinted at plenty more to come in late 2021.

In both level and volume of production, the day’s announcements confirm Netflix as one of if not the, foremost investors in original Spanish series and movies, at the same as its talent pool is expanding to include ever more of the principal producers in Spain. New Netflix originals are now being produced by now-regular partners Nostromo, producers of “The Minions of Midas”; “Élite” producers Zeta Studios; “Money Heist...

Netflix has unveiled a new slate for Spain, including three dramas, a couple of original features, and some non-scripted formats, among them a new docu-reality show focused on Instagram star Georgina Rodríguez.

Among the new shows are Intimidad, a drama series from Verónica Fernández and Laura Sarmiento which stars Itziar Ituno, Patricia López Arnaiz, Verónica Echegui, Ana Wagener, and Emma Suárez and follows four women caught up in a sex scandal with deep political implications; Baruca from Victor Sierra and  Xosé Morais, an action drama set in prison under siege; and Si lo hubiera sabido (If Only), a drama created by the Turkish screenwriter ...

Netflix has unveiled a new slate for Spain, including three dramas, a couple of original features, and some non-scripted formats, among them a new docu-reality show focused on Instagram star Georgina Rodríguez.

Among the new shows are Intimidad, a drama series from Verónica Fernández and Laura Sarmiento which stars Itziar Ituno, Patricia López Arnaiz, Verónica Echegui, Ana Wagener, and Emma Suárez and follows four women caught up in a sex scandal with deep political implications; Baruca from Victor Sierra and  Xosé Morais, an action drama set in prison under siege; and Si lo hubiera sabido (If Only), a drama created by the Turkish screenwriter ...

"Do you really consider yourself a normal citizen?" Signature Ent. has debuted an official UK trailer for a political drama titled The Candidate, originally titled The Realm or also El Reino. This Spanish dramatic thriller is about a politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes the truth to the public. Antonio de la Torre stars as an influential regional vice-secretary "who had everything in his favor to take the leap into national politics", until he gets caught up in a scandal that changes everything. Also starring Mónica López, José María Pou, Bárbara Lennie, Nacho Fresneda, Ana Wagener, Luis Zahera, Francisco Reyes, and María de Nati. This premiered at the Toronto & San Sebastian Film Festivals last year, and is getting a UK release this summer but nothing in the Us yet. Looks damn good. Perhaps a story real-life politicians should heed.

Jaime Jiménez (Jose Coronado) lives an everyman nightmare: A middle-aged surgeon in Sevilla, he drives numbly through rainy streets, with the backdrop of radio presenters murmuring about unemployment and economic dissatisfaction. Jaime is constantly shut out of his daughter Sara’s life (Asia Ortega). Meanwhile, his wife, Carmen (Ana Wagener) is barely a presence in his life. The only tether to the real world is Jaime’s beloved son, Marcos (Pol Monen), a high school-aged runner and his father’s jogging partner, who is, in every way, the golden boy.

Continue reading ‘Your Son’ [‘Tu Hijo’]: A Father’s Love Leads To Violence In This Gritty Psychological Thriller [Review] at The Playlist.

Madrid — Spain’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the nominees for the 33rdedition of the Goya Awards, to be held at the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones in Sevilla on Feb. 2, 2019.

Leading the pack with 13 nominations is Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ultra-current political thriller “The Realm,” which impressed in San Sebastian’s main competition. The film is produced by Spain’s Tornasol and Atresmedia Cine and co-produced by Le Pacte and Mondex Cie out of France.

Spain’s foreign-language Oscar submission “Champions” scored an impressive 11 nominations of its own. The heartwarming dramedy about a special needs basketball team was a breakout hit at the Spanish box office this year, grossing €18.5 million ($21.4 million Usd) for Universal Pictures Intl. Spain.

It would hardly be a Goya Awards ceremony without one of Spain’s big three export acting talents – Banderas, Bardem or Cruz – and this year two are likely to be in attendance,...

Cannes opener Everybody Knows scores eight nominations.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s political thriller The Realm led the Goya nominations from the Spanish Film Academy with 13 nods including for best film director, actor and original screenplay. It was closely followed by Javier Fesser’s hit comedy Champions with 11 nominations.

Asghar Farhadi’s Cannes opener Everybody Knows garnered eight nominations, including for best film, best actress for Penélope Cruz and best actor for Javier Bardem.

Fesser’s comedy is the most successful Spanish film by far at the local box office this year with a gross of $22m. Produced by Peliculas Pendleton, Movistar+ and Morena Films,...

Stars: Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Martijn Kuiper, Xoel Yáñez, Luis Iglesia | Written by Miguel Ángel Vivas, Javier García | Directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas

This Spanish film is the figurative definition of ‘thriller’ (I get told off by my housemate for misuse of literality). Jaime (Fernando Cayo) has just moved to an a beautiful new house with his wife, Marta (Ana Wagener), and daughter, Isa (Manuela Vellés) and already arguments are starting as Isa wants to skip the families first meal together in her new home to meet her boyfriend. None of that matters, however, as the house is broken into that night be three masked men. The leader takes down the card details of each of them and takes Jaime on a drive to get money out while Marta and Isa are left with the other two; one of them a bit crazy and the other very skittish.

No Rest for the Wicked (No habrá paz para los malvados) and the other winners for the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) have been announced. The 26th Annual Goya Awards (Premios Goyas), presented by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences), is “Spain’s main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards.”

The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) winners is below.

Film

No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu

Director

Enrique Urbizu, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)

New Director

Kike Maillo, Eva

Original Screenplay

Enrique Urbizu and Michel Gaztambide, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)

Adapted Screenplay

Angel de la Cruz, Ignacio Ferreras, Paco Roca and Rosanna Cecchini,...

José Coronado, No Rest for the Wicked Pedro Almodóvar didn't have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goya Awards this evening in Madrid: Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In won a total of four Goyas, but none for its director/writer. Starring Antonio Banderas as a plastic surgeon, Elena Anaya as his captive woman, and Jan Cornet as the good-looking young man whom the doctor blames for the death of his daughter, the sex-bending mystery melodrama won Goyas for Best Actress (Anaya), Best New Actor (Cornet), Best Original Music (Alberto Iglesias, his tenth Goya win), and Best Makeup/Hair. [Full list of Premios Goya winners/nominations.] Instead of the internationally renowned (and BAFTA winner) The Skin I Live In, the 2012 Goyas' big winner was Enrique Urbizu's No habrá paz para los malvados / No Rest for the Wicked, the story of a murderous, corrupt cop. No Rest for the Wicked won Goyas for Best Picture,...

Fernando Tejero, Salma Hayek, As Luck Would Have It No Rest For The Wicked, The Artist, Un Cuento Chino: Goya Award Winners Pt.1 Best Actor Daniel Brühl, Eva Antonio Banderas, The Skin I Live In Luis Tosar, Mientras duermes * José Coronado, No Rest for the Wicked Best Actress Verónica Echegui, Katmandu: un espejo en el cielo * Elena Anaya, The Skin I Live In Inma Cuesta, The Sleeping Voice Salma Hayek, La Chispa de la vida / As Luck Would Have It Best Supporting Actor Juan Diego, 23-f: la película * Lluís Homar, Eva Juanjo Artero, No Rest for the Wicked Raúl Arévalo, Cousins Best Supporting Actress Goya Toledo, Maktub Maribel Verdú, De tu ventana a la mía Pilar López de Ayala, Intruders * Ana Wagener, The Sleeping Voice Best New Actor José Mota, As Luck Would Have It * Jan Cornet, The Skin I Live In Adrián Lastra, Cousins Marc Clotet, The Sleeping...

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) and the other nominations for the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) have been announced. The 26th Annual Goya Awards (Premios Goyas), presented by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences), is “Spain’s main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards.” The awards will be handed out on February 19, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.

The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) nominations is below.

Film

La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), Pedro Almodovar

No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu

La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), Benito Zambrano

Blackthorn. Sin destino (Blackthorn), Mateo Gil

Director

Pedro Almodovar, La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)

Benito Zambrano, La voz dormida...

If you've never seen Miguel Ángel Vivas' new flick Kidnapped (review here), then you want to pay close attention to the following words ... it will be available via IFC on DVD November 29th. Mark your calendars. Tie a string around your finger. Do whatever you have to do, but make sure you get your hands on this truly brutal flick!

Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener, and Manuela Vellés star as "Jaime, Marta, and their daughter, Isa, who have just moved into a luxurious new house. Marta begins to prepare dinner and puts a bottle of champagne on ice to celebrate the move. As night falls, three hooded men violently force their way into the house. Panic ensues, and soon the real violence will begin."

Again, this is one that you don't want to miss!

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A few months back our Us-based cousins were gifted with a brief theatrical and VOD release of Miguel Angel Vivas's Spanish home-invasion thriller 'Kidnapped' (Aka 'Secuestrados'). And in case you missed it or are after that perfect romantic gift for the missus then look no further as 'Kidnapped' hits DVD shelves from 29 November. Manuela Velles (below), Ana Wagener, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Dritan Biba, Martijn Kuiper, Guillermo Barrientos and Xoel Yanez all star. Check out the plot info for the awesome (and violent) flick below....

Since I’m heading down to Austin for Fantastic Fest in less than a week, I thought I would write up a post with some of my recommendations from last year’s festival. Bonus-Fantastic Fest announced over the weekend that it has opened up an official shop on iTunes, making it even easier to access some of the best offerings from past festivals. The new shop features selections from 2005-2010, and you can rent or buy the titles. Film offerings include Sin City, Wolf Creek, Bug, The Host, Pan’s Labyrinth, There Will Be Blood, Trick ‘R Treat, The Human Centipede, 13 Assassins, Monsters and many more. Visit the Fantastic Fest iTunes page to browse the full selection. Many of the films from last year’s festival are also now available via Netflix or DVD, so you can watch them now. Keep in mind that most of these are very low budget,...

As promised in our Event Report from this year's amazing as always Film4 FrightFest film fest in the UK, we're back with a full gallery of photos from the event taken by our man on the scene, Gareth aka Pestilence, along with a quartet of new reviews.

As you're no doubt aware from our past several years of covering the event, FrightFest is nothing if not eclectic, as evidenced by the films that are the subject of these four reviews from Gareth:

The Glass Man

Starring Andy Nyman, James Cosmo, Neve Campbell, Brett Allen

Directed by Cristian Solimeno

Martin Pyrite has lost his job. But instead of telling his wife, he continues his work routine and gets into enormous monetary difficulties. Then late one night a sinister debt collector bangs on his door with an offer – if Martin helps him carry out an important task, he’ll wipe the financial slate clean.

The third annual Grimm Up North Film Festival runs this October 6th-9th at the AMC Cinemas in the Great Northern Warehouse, Deansgate, and we've got the full lineup of films to be shown along with the schedule. If you'll be anywhere near Manchester, England, during that time frame, this is one event you don't want to miss!

Thursday - October 6th

(Tickets sold separately for this event – not covered by Festival Pass)

7.00 – Drinks, guests and press at Casino.

8.00 – Retreat plus Q+A with the director, writer and producer

Country: UK

Year: 2011

Director: Carl Tibbetts

Starring: Jamie Bell, Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy

Status: Special Preview

10.15 – retire to the Casino bar.

Friday - October 7th

2.30 – The Dead Zone (103 mins)

Country: Us

Year: 1983

Director: David Cronenberg

Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams

Status: Exclusive screening

4.30 – Black And Blue Films: Producer Jonathan Sothcott and celebrity guests, with exclusive clips of new films

6.00 – Urban Explorer...

by Marcey Papandrea, MoreHorror.com

One of the biggest gut punches I’ve had with a film this year comes in the form of Spain’s Kidnapped. I went in thinking I knew what this film was going to be about, and what it would be like. I was wrong, very wrong.

I think one of our deepest fears, is that of violation. Any type of violation, because it leaves us exposed. Kidnapped plays to this fear in the most extreme of ways, if you can’t handle a harsh and hard-hitting film, then leave.

The film begins with an opening scene; we’re not given any context. The only thing we can gather is that whom ever we’re introduced to is going to be in for it.

The real story begins with a regular couple, Jamie (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) and their rebellious teenage daughter Isa...

Get ready to witness the moment the shit hits the proverbial fan in a new clip from Miguel Angel Vivas' Kidnapped, a powerful new film that will leave your jaws on the floor and your fingers dug into your arm rests.

Kidnapped stars Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba and Fernando Cayo. The flick made its arrival via On Demand June 15th before hitting limited theaters beginning on June 17th.

Synopsis

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone's evening is ruined when a gang of masked hoodlums pay a visit to the home.

Title: Kidnapped (Secuestrados) Director: Miguel Angel Vivas Starring: Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener, Manuela Velles, Guillermo Barrienttos, Martijn Kuiper, Dritan Biba, Xoel Yanez A slick Spanish-French coproduction that was named Best Horror Film at Austin’s Fantastic Fest last year, ‘Kidnapped’ (‘Secuestrados’) is a gritty, efficient home invasion flick that should serve as a solid cinematic calling card debut for co-writer and director Miguel Angel Vivas. Set on the outskirts of Madrid, ‘Kidnapped”s narrative is fairly pedestrian and familiar, and predicated on an audience’s enjoyment of the picture’s propulsive momentum as much as anything else. After a discrete opening segment which finds a bloodied man with a bag over his head stumbling...

Title: Kidnapped (Secuestrados) Directed By: Miguel Angel Vivas Written By: Miguel Angel Vivas, Javier Gracia Cast: Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Martijn Kuiper, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Xoel Yanez Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 5/26/11 Opens: June 17, 2011 Hey Mayor Bloomberg! Governor Cuomo! Get your minds off the budget for a couple of days and consider this. Homeowners and residents in New York need guns, just like in Texas. Yeah, the big argument against abolishing gun laws is that honest citizens may not know how to use the equipment and will only get shot by the bad guys who do, but the way around this is...

Reviewed by Samantha Perez

(June 2011)

Directed by: Miguel Ángel Vivas

Written by: Miguel Ángel Viva and Javier García

Starring: Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Martijn Kuiper and Dritan Biba

Best Horror Feature winner at Fantastic Fest 2010, Miguel Ángel Vivas’ film about a family’s first night in their new home gone wrong may leave audiences in a total state of shock.

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) have just moved to a remote gated community in Madrid. Their teenage daughter Isa (Manuela Vellés) is not happy about the transition; she constantly and unapologetically fights with her mother. As the family prepares to celebrate their first night in the new house, three men break in and take them hostage. One man takes Jaime out to collect cash from various ATMs in town while the other two stay behind with the women to torment them.

What the family...

Reviewed by Samantha Perez

(June 2011)

Directed by: Miguel Ángel Vivas

Written by: Miguel Ángel Viva and Javier García

Starring: Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Martijn Kuiper and Dritan Biba

Best Horror Feature winner at Fantastic Fest 2010, Miguel Ángel Vivas’ film about a family’s first night in their new home gone wrong may leave audiences in a total state of shock.

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) have just moved to a remote gated community in Madrid. Their teenage daughter Isa (Manuela Vellés) is not happy about the transition; she constantly and unapologetically fights with her mother. As the family prepares to celebrate their first night in the new house, three men break in and take them hostage. One man takes Jaime out to collect cash from various ATMs in town while the other two stay behind with the women to torment them.

What the family...

From the opening shot of a bound, prostrate man struggling to breathe with a bloody plastic bag over his head, the Spanish thriller Kidnapped declares that it isn’t kidding around. Miguel Ángel Vivas’ home-invasion drama joins a subgenre well-populated by the likes of Desperate Hours, Funny Games, Panic Room, and The Strangers, and while Kidnapped doesn’t add anything substantially new to the tradition, Vivas hits his marks with ruthless efficiency. He begins with the family: cheery, well-to-do couple Fernando Cayo and Ana Wagener and their huffy teenage daughter, Manuela Vellés. Then he moves them into a house ...

Originally reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.

A hallmark of Spanish horror in recent years has been the long take, something that's been perfected by the disciples of Guillermo del Toro like "The Orphanage"'s Juan Antonio Bayona and "Julia's Eyes"'s Guillem Morales and the filmmakers behind shockers like "[Rec]." Of course, slow burns have always been part of the genre, but the lack of cutaways feel particularly disconcerting to an increasing Add generation and have been used to convey a reality to the terrifying creep of zombies, ghosts and other monsters of the night. Strangely, the trend towards unflinching takes has largely ignored the horror potential of actual reality, something that writer/director Miguel Ángel Vivas appears to be well aware in his arresting sophomore feature.

I wasn't counting, but I'd be surprised to learn if there were more than 50 cuts in "Kidnapped," Vivas' 86-minute endurance test about the home invasion...

One of the most intense and gripping debut film in recent years, Miguel Angel Vivas' home invasion thriller Kidnapped hits Us screens in limited release June 17th - screening at the reRub Gastropub, for you New York folk - while hitting VOD on June 15th, and we've got a brand new, exclusive clip.Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone's evening is ruined when a...

We haven't had much to report on regarding new Spanish home invasion flick Kidnapped (Aka 'Secuestrados') for a few months now. The Spanish premiere came and went and we were all just sitting around waiting for some international release news. It was picked up in the Us by IFC films some time ago and here it is folks, our stateside neighbours will see the new thriller from writer/director Miguel Angel Vivas in theatres across the Us both theatrically and On Demand. 'Kidnapped' will firstly arrive on VOD from 15 June and will then hit theatres from 17 June. Refresh yourself with the trailer below. It stars Manuela Velles (below), Ana Wagener, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Dritan Biba, Martijn Kuiper, Guillermo Barrientos and Xoel Yanez....

Title: Kidnapped (Secuestrados) Directed By: Miguel Angel Vivas Written By: Miguel Ángel Vivas, Javier Gracia Cast: Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Martijn Kuiper, Manuela Vellés, Ana Wagener, Xoel Yanez Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 5/26/11 Opens: June 17, 2011 Hey Mayor Bloomberg! Governor Cuomo! Get your minds off the budget for a couple of days and consider this. Homeowners and residents in New York need guns, just like in Texas. Yeah, the big argument against abolishing gun laws is that honest citizens may not know how to use the equipment and will only get shot by the bad guys who do, but the way around this is...

IFC's latest home invasion themed thriller titled "Kidnapped" trailer has been slightly refurbished and cleaned up for our liking. Check out the subtitled trailer below rather than the previously released English dubbed trailer you may have seen before. Along with the new trailer is an official One-sheet poster. Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family…...

Yesterday IFC took its fair share of lumps from film enthusiasts for putting out an English dubbed trailer for their latest home invasion themed thriller, Kidnapped. Thankfully that trailer has been banished, and the subtitled version is finally here along with the official one-sheet.

Miguel Angel Vivas' Kidnapped stars Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba and Fernando Cayo. Look for the flick to make its arrival via On Demand June 15th before joining limited theaters on June 17th.

Synopsis

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone's evening is ruined when a gang...

The Kidnapped Trailer, Kidnapped Poster have premiered. Miguel Angel Vivas‘ Kidnapped / Secuestrados (2010) movie stars Fernando Cayo, Manuela Velles, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, and Dritan Biba. Kidnapped‘s plot synopsis: “Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone’s evening is ruined when a gang of masked hoodlums pay a visit to the home.”

The beginning of the movie trailer may instantly remind the viewer of the beginning to the fantastic horror film Martyrs, written about here: Film Review: Martyrs. The viewer is then given what could be a good thriller about...

We've run two [1] trailers [2] for the home invasion film Kidnapped in the past, but it's possible that you've passed over them. In the past few weeks, however, the buzz among horror enthusiasts has risen steadily in relation to the film -- it seems like every time I hit a site that covers films like Kidnapped there is someone writing with gusto about their reaction to the movie. It's a pretty simple setup: a small family's evening is violently disrupted when masked men invade their home. There are a couple of unique things about the movie, and it evidently builds to an insane conclusion. IFC is releasing it in June, and there is a new trailer to accompany that release. But be warned: the Spanish-language film is not subtitled, but dubbed in this trailer. I don't understand that at all -- the dubbing is simply awful. So you may want to...

In preparation for its arrival via On Demand June 15th before joining limited theaters on June 17th, we've nailed down the trailer for the next home invasion-themed slice of terror, Kidnapped, and it's one you don't want to miss!

Miguel Angel Vivas' Kidnapped stars Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba and Fernando Cayo.

Synopsis

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone's evening is ruined when a gang of masked hoodlums pay a visit to the home.

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Here's a crazy good trailer for an intense looking thriller called Kidnapped from director Miguel Angel Vivas. The movie looks like it could be really good, unfortunately the dubbing in this trailer is awful. I'd much rather watch this movie reading subtitles than have to deal bad dubbing. The story follow a team of criminals who takes a family hostage in their home with the intent to rob them. The family fights back. 

The movie hits theaters on June 17th 2011. Watch the trailer below and tell us if it's something you might want to see.

Here's the Synopsis for the film:

Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans...

IFC Films has released an English-dubbed trailer for their latest acquisition, director Miguel Angel Vivas’ kidnapped thriller, well, “Kidnapped”. The English dubbing, like the one for Dennis Gansel’s “We Are the Night” feels “off” somehow, and I’m not even one of those cinema purists who automatically hates everything dubbed. But it’s, well, just feels wrong here, especially compared with the original Spanish trailer. That having been said, “Kidnapped” still looks like a pretty intense ride. Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone’s evening is ruined when...

The domestic trailer for director Miguel Angel Vivas' Spanish psychological thriller Kipnapped has come online and can be watched using the player below. Opening in theaters on June 17, the film stars Fernando Cayo, Manuela Velles, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba Martijn Kuiper and Xoel Yanez. In Kipnapped , Jaime (Cayo) and Marta (Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone's evening is ruined when a gang of masked hoodlums pay a visit to the home.

Title: Kidnapped Directed By: Miguel Ángel Vivas Starring: Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener, Manuela Vellés, Xoel Yáñez, Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Martijn Kuiper Yes, we want our horror films to be scary, but being too scary is a major genre pitfall. Often this stems from a film being exploitative and dousing us in incredibly gory or disturbing visuals, but sometimes we get the beautiful juxtaposition of a film being so well done that it feels too real. What can be more genuinely horrifying than that? Jaime, Marta (Fernando Cayo and Ana Wagener) and their daughter, Isa (Manuela Vellés), move into a gorgeous new home. Marta wants to have a family dinner...

There’s nothing as frightening as that feeling you get when you are home alone, late and you start to hear noises. Is it something supernatural? Is it someone trying to get into your house? Is it just the house settling? The only feeling that’s worse than that, is the feeling you have when someone breaks into your house and holds you hostage without giving you any reason. Miguel Ángel Vivas has masterfully crafted a film that makes you feel dread, horror, fear and sorrow all at the same time.

Kidnapped starts out with a shot of someone, somewhere outdoors with a bag on their head. Vivas holds the shot for about 45-60 seconds and the viewer doesn’t know what to make of it. Finally the person takes a breath, but they are having trouble breathing due to the bag. They get up and start running through what...

2010 was the weakest year at the Spanish box office in a decade – proof that the films with the most box office potential fell flat. Actually, very few have performed decently. Ironically the biggest flops and the most coldly received by critics films are the ones top lining the nominations for this year's Spanish Academy Awards, the Goyas. Alex de la Iglesia's “Balada Triste de Trompeta” gathered 15 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Antonio De La Torre), Best Supporting Actress (Terele Pávez) and Best Newcomer Actress (Carolina Bang). “Pan Nere” follows with 14 nominations, the surprise hit by Agustí Villaronga will compete for Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Sergi López), Best Actress (Nora Navas), Best Newcomer Actor (Francesc Colomer) and Best Supporting Actress (Laia Marull). Following Agustí Villaronga's film we find “También la Lluvia” by Icíar Bollaín with 13 nominations fighting for Best Film,...

IFC continues to do themselves proud. They seem to have a love of quality film that is not constrained by genre. My first real experience with them was when they aired the horror themed documentary The American Nightmare over the Halloween season years ago. I was blown away and gained huge respect for the company. I still watch it every now and then to remind myself how good horror can be.

As announced recently IFC will be distributing the french zombie film The Horde and now have added two more foreign horror flicks to their catalog, this time both originating from Spain.

The films are Manuel Carballo’s supernatural chiller Exorcismus and Miguel Ángel Vivas’ home-invasion flick Kidnapped. Both films will be released through the IFC Midnight label theatrically and on its video-on-demand platform in early 2011.

In Exorcismus, a rebellious young girl (Sophie Vavasseur) discovers that she’s possessed by...

IFC Midnight has acquired Manuel Carballo's Exorcismus (aka The Possession of Emma Evans ) and Miguel Angel Vivas' powerful and shocking home invasion flick Kidnapped ( review ). Both films will be released through the IFC Midnight label theatrically and on their video on demand platform in early 2011. In Exorcismus , a rebellious young girl (Sophie Vavasseur) slowly discovers that she is possessed by a twisted, evil force. She is soon forced against her will to use extreme measures to free herself. Kidnapped follows Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener), a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Vellés). As the family moves into a new home and gathers to celebrate, everyone.s evening is ruined when a gang makes a home invasion.

Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.

A hallmark of Spanish horror in recent years has been the long take, something that's been perfected by the disciples of Guillermo del Toro like "The Orphanage"'s Juan Antonio Bayona and "Julia's Eyes"'s Guillem Morales and the filmmakers behind shockers like "[Rec]." Of course, slow burns have always been part of the genre, but the lack of cutaways feel particularly disconcerting to an increasing Add generation and have been used to convey a reality to the terrifying creep of zombies, ghosts and other monsters of the night. Strangely, the trend towards unflinching takes has largely ignored the horror potential of actual reality, something that writer/director Miguel Ángel Vivas appears to be well aware in his arresting sophomore feature.

I wasn't counting, but I'd be surprised to learn if there were more than 50 cuts in "Kidnapped," Vivas' 86-minute endurance test about the home invasion of...