Kidnapped
November 3rd 2011 22:57
Director: Miguel Angel Vivas
Screenplay: Miguel Angel Vivas and Javier Garcia
Production: Spain/France
Year: 2010
Sub-genre tags: home invasion, thriller
Tagline: Take your last breath
Logline: Three hooded Eastern-European criminals invade a wealthy Madrid home, holding the family hostage and extorting money, but things don't quite go to plan.
Core cast: Isa (Manuelles Velles), Jaime (Fernando Cayo), Marta (Wagener), Jefe (Dritan Biba), Joven (Guillermo Barrientos)
Memorable moment: Opening prologue sequence, indirectly connected to rest of the movie.
Curious Fact: The entire 80-minute movie takes place in real time with only a handful of takes, and uses clever camera work and editing to enhance the tension and suspense.
Intensity levels:
Blood & gore: high
Fear factor and/or frights: medium
Likelihood of bad dreams (disturbing content): high
Horrorphile’s two cents: The plot of Kidnapped is as lean as it is mean, but this is not a movie concerned with a three-act structure, a dramatic character arc, and the hero’s journey ... A king-hit of unbridled horror violence and a sustained nightmare tone.
NB: Do not watch the American English-language dubbed version version!
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TRAILER (no English subtitles):
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