Shrews Nest
8 /10 1 Votes
Country Spain | Language Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Director Juan Fernando Andres
Esteban Roel Release date December 25, 2014 (2014-12-25) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shrews Nest (Spanish: , "Shrews", renamed Sangre de mi sangre ("Blood of My Blood") in Mexico) is a Spanish 2014 thriller/horror film directed by Juan Fernando Andres and Esteban Roel, and starring Macarena Gomez, Nadia de Santiago, Hugo Silva and Luis Tosar. It was nominated for three awards at the 29th Goya Awards ceremony.
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Plot
The film is set in the 1950s. Montse (Macarena Gomez) has lost her youth taking care of younger sister Nia (Nadia de Santiago), both locked in a dark apartment in the center of Madrid. Their mother died during Nias birth and their father (Luis Tosar) ran away, unable to handle the situation. And so, forced to act as father, mother and older sister, Montse hides from reality, feeding an obsessive, unhinged temperament. She suffers from agoraphobia and her only link to reality is Nia. That link breaks when Carlos (Hugo Silva), a neighbor of them, falls off the stairs and looks for help knocking on the only door he can drag himself towards. Someone has entered the shrews nest, and might not come out again.
Critical reception
Shrews Nest has received generally positive reviews. Jordi Costa wrote for El Pais, "one could criticize Shrews Nest for some underlinings and missteps, but it is an energic debut film, capable of modulating with a good pulse the escalade towards its final excesses." Jonathan Holland of The Hollywood Reporter, while dismissing Hugo Silvas performance as "literally and metaphorically flat", claims that the film is an "enjoyable if unsubtle historical horror featuring a deliciously over-the-top central performance by Macarena Gomez."
On the negative side, Daniel Lobato wrote for eCartelera: "Explaining the reasons that make a failed proposal out of Shrews Nest would require entering spoiler territory (...), so I will just say that the concord of credibility between viewer and author (...) breaks irreparably as soon as danger raises its head", and also criticizes Silvas performance, claiming that he "should at least have seen The Sea Inside before laying in bed."