6 Films to Keep You Awake

[Mighty_Emperor]

Sounds a bit like a Spanish MoH

The site is just a holding page:

www.filmaxtv.com

But Twitch have a mass of details:

www.twitchfilm.net/archives/004974.html

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The Baby's Room

A couple with a recently born child arrive at their new home. It is a wonderful old house that has been completely renovated and the ideal place to start life as a family. The couple go to bed after a tiring day.

Before going to bed, the couple go and check the child monitor that has been installed in the baby’s bedroom. It is the very latest model. Not only does it allow you to listen in while the baby is sleeping, it lets you watch the baby as well...

They will soon discover that there is someone else living in this house, someone whose presence can be felt every night, right beside their baby’s cradle…

www.filmaxinternational.com/fichas/1503.htm

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Blame

Ana, a gynaecologist, invites Gloria, a nurse and friend from the hospital, and Gloria’s daughter Vicky, to come and live with her. The nurse who used to help Ana in her private clinic has moved on, so Gloria will be the new assistant. It seems like a reasonable arrangement.

The house, a section of which is used as a private clinic, is light, cheerful and peaceful. But there is something sinister alive in there.

Once she has moved in, Ana reveals to Gloria that her private practice is in fact an abortion clinic.

A clinic where truth, pain, life and death all intermingle. A clinic in which the patients and doctors are never truly alone. They are always dragging their pasts behind them… towards the room upstairs.

www.filmaxinternational.com/fichas/1504.htm

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Xmas Tale

A group of children spending Christmas in a summer resort village discover a woman disguised as Santa Claus in a well in the woods. When they go to the police for help, they discover that she is in fact a dangerous thief who is on the run with a substantial haul. They make a decision. They will help her out of the well in exchange for the money that she still has on her.

But once they have the money, greed, fear and darker thoughts lead them to change their plans, which in turn leads to a series of dilemmas. Should they keep the money? Why would they actually want to help her out of the well? And would they be in danger if they did let her out?

So the children decide not to free her. They feed her and look after her… but the days become increasingly long in the well. The cold, the damp, the darkness and above all the fact that she is being fed with packets of children’s food are turning her enforced captivity into a torture session with near fatal consequences.

One day, when the children come to see her, the well is empty... This year, Santa Claus is coming with a sackful of deadly gifts…

www.filmaxinternational.com/fichas/1505.htm

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A Real Friend

Estrella, a girl of ten, has lived alone with her mother Angela since her father died when she was very small. She is a lively and sociable child, but she spends a lot of time alone at home. Too much.

Estrella enjoys fantasy and horror stories and, in order to exorcise the fear that the "big monsters" cause her, she makes friends with them: she gives them a body, talks to them, they go to school with her, they protect her...

One day, Estrella makes friends with a new companion, a vampire. But could it be that this "friend" is not merely a product of the girl’s imagination?

www.filmaxinternational.com/fichas/1506.htm

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Spectre

Alejandro is an elderly writer, and is driving back to the small costal village where he was born and raised. But the peaceful place of his memories has been turned into a vast tourist resort, full of brazen consumerism with no charm left at all.

Once there, Alejandro reminisces about a painful episode from his past. When he was a child he met a mysterious woman whom he has been trying to forget ever since. A woman of wild beauty, she was married to a sailor. However, there were rumours in the village that she was having a relationship with another man and so all her neighbours disowned her because of her supposedly adulterous behaviour. But Alejandro was totally and madly in love with her.

Back in the present day, and still wrapped up in his memories, Alejandro suddenly thinks he sees her appear just around the street corner. No…. No…. It can’t be…...It was someone else. But even though it seems like madness….. it is her… it is the same woman with whom he fell in love. Time has stood still for her.

Perturbed, nervous, fearful and yet excited, Alejandro follows her… but he will soon discover that she has been waiting for him…

www.filmaxinternational.com/fichas/1507.htm

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To Let

Carolina and Tony are driving through the torrential rain that has been falling all day. They are going to see a flat… yet another flat. They have seen dozens already. Ever since they have been expecting a baby, they have been looking for something a little bigger, but the agent has told them that this flat is something a little special.

First impressions are not exactly good. Like all of the properties in the area, the flat seems to have been abandoned and is totally empty… and what about all the random limbs of old shop mannequins scattered across the floor, the stairs and the landings…

The estate agent re-assures them. The council is apparently refurbishing the whole area. In just a few months they are going to be sitting on a gold mine. And what’s more, two new families have also just moved in. On the mezzanine and the second floor.

They go up to the third floor and enter the flat. Which is something they should never have done... Their flat, the whole building in fact, is a trap. Watched over by a diabolical landlady…

www.filmaxinternational.com/fichas/1508.htm

 

[sherbetbizarre]

...And finally in the UK we get to see them!

Spectre
1/6. First in a season of Spanish ghost stories. When Tomas hears
rumours that a woman who has moved into an old house in the village
but is never seen out, is in fact a witch in league with the devil,
Tomas and his friends decide to investigate. In Spanish with English
subtitles. Some strong language and some sexual content. [Matteo Gil,
2006]

BBC4 Tue 22 Apr, 22:30-23:50 80mins Stereo Widescreen

 

[OneWingedBird]

maybe this should be retitled 'film synopses to keep you awake' :shock:

 

[sherbetbizarre]

Oh, and it's worth mentioning the directors...

- "THE BABY'S ROOM" By ALEX DE LA IGLESIA
(Perdita Durango, The Day of the Beast)
…"Would you sleep if something were cradling your baby next door?"

- "THE CHRISTMAS TALE" By PACO PLAZA
(Romasanta, The Werewolf Hunt, Second Name)
…"Would you sleep nine feet under?"

-"BLAME" By CHICHO IBAÑEZ SERRADOR
(Stories to Keep you Awake, TV 1969, Who Can Kill A Child?)
…"Would you sleep if you could hear noises from the room upstairs?"

- "SPECTRE" By MATEO GIL Amenabar co-writer
(Nobody knows Anybody)
…"Would you sleep with your lover if she had come back from the Other
Side?"

- "A REAL FRIEND" By ENRIQUE URBIZU
(Box 507)
…"Would you sleep in a coffin?"

-"TO LET" By JAUME BALAGUERO
(Darkness, The Nameless, Fragile, [REC])
…"Would you sleep if your landlady had all the keys?"

 

[raven1013]

So is anyone watching these?

Spectre was rubbish, but the last one (A Christmas Tale) was an excellent watch - a fun, cheesy, occasionally edge of the seat 80's stylee Goonies knock-off.

Have to admit I'm having no problems sleeping after them so far...

 

[raven1013]

OK, I take it back 'To let' was genuinely terrifying.
2 out 3 hits isn't too shabby in my book - I'm quite looking forward to next week's now...

 

[painy2]

I have missed them all so far, but have set the last 3 up on Sky+.

They are very hard to find online with English subs. I can find one or two of them, but cant find To Let.

I have really gone off Hollywood horror now, and enjoy foreign horror a lot more.