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Shiver

Isidro ORITIZ

Spain2007 91min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Santi moves into the country with his mother. His serene, deserted community consists of woods, buildings and people as old as their houses. One day, flocks of sheep turned up ravaged to death. Whatever, or whoever, has attacked them, it now targets residents. Soon, neighborhood kids on the lookout for a ball bump into a strange creature. And one of them, attempting to fight off the monster, meets his horrible demise. Townspeople suspect Santi, who so happens to be near the crime scene every time there is the killing. Suffering from communal hostility, he stumbles on a clue that leads to the truth: A cunningly orchestrated conspiracy is behind all those deaths. A childhood narrative laced with horror elements and convincingly relatable portrayal of a boy transforming into a man by facing his fear. (KANG Yu Jung)

Diretor

Isidro ORITIZ

43-year-old T.V. director with more than twenty years of devotion to the visual sector. Cinema's fond since he was very young, he carries out his first studies in the London Film Institute. Currently, he has finished his third feature film Shiver, a juvenile horror thriller.