Regie:
José Luis AlemánCamera:
David AzcanoMuziek:
Arnau BatallerActeurs:
Daniele Liotti, Óscar Jaenada, Laia Marull, Silvia Abascal, Rodolfo Sancho, Jimmy Barnatán, Paul Naschy, Eusebio Poncela, Jesús Olmedo, José Luis Torrijo (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion! (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Recensie (3)
In the first thirty minutes the film tells a story set in the present (and it got me interested with a very decent atmosphere), but then it jumps to the past and spends the rest of the time laying down a mythology for the second part, without delivering any outcome for that beginning. I guess we’ll have to wait. The Valdemar Legacy at times feels very cheap (almost like made for TV) and despite the very good atmosphere of some scenes (the beginning and the climax), it was a big disappointment. I will still watch the second part, though with lower expectations.
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The Valdemar Legacy: On the one hand we have the TV-ness, the weaker visual effects and the strangely unfinished story from the present day. On the other hand, however, a very good atmosphere (a combination of great cinematography and music), a gripping story set in the past, which resembles Branagh's Frankenstein in its tragic conception, plus the supporting characters Aleister Crowley (!) and Bram Stoker (!!!), and of course "inspired by H. P. Lovecraft". According to the previews, there are much, much bigger things to come in the second part. Three and a half.
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An interesting Spanish horror film that succeeds in building atmosphere and draws you in, not with unnecessary jump scares, but with the way the overall story is presented. Towards the end, it becomes a bit overdone and uncertain, but I'm quite curious about the sequel, which could be at least as successful as this first film.
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