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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutTime OutThe logic wouldn’t hold up under scrutiny, but García Bogliano’s unnerving mood, complemented by grungy camerawork and a shroud of sonic chaos, provides an emotional strain that makes anything possible.
- 70Village VoiceRob StaegerVillage VoiceRob StaegerBogliano is not a subtle director — check his sudden zooms on items of portent — but he painstakingly shows us Caro opening her mind to the possibility of supernatural evil, and he's careful not to tip his hand too soon as to whether it's real or imagined.
- 60The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayBogliano provides a steady series of jolts, all the way to an ending that’s twisty but ultimately unsatisfying.
- 50Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoThe film is eventually revealed as less interested in subverting or playing off its influences than rigorously retracing them.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreIt barely has a fright in it on its own, this bloody, Mexican-made supernatural thriller set in the hill country near Tijuana. But open it with a hot “Blue is the Warmest Color” sex scene, toss in a few other hot and heavy moments and a generous helping of nudity and you can be sure, at least, of getting a Hollywood studio’s attention.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyPromises much in an ominously atmospheric package that nods to 1970s genre stylings. But the payoff is on the meh side.
- 50Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleBogliano — who hit it big in indie horror with "Penumbra" and "Room for Tourists" — is a mood man, adept at unease and admirably judicious about shock moments, if not exactly skilled with storytelling or pacing.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA muddled supernatural thriller that fails to capitalize on either its horrific prologue or eerie location.
- 25RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.comThe problem is that writer-director Adrián García Bogliano can't decide what kind of horror movie he wants it to be.