El otro
2012 · 18m · España
Directed by Jorge Dorado
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Andrés arrives at a solitary cabin in a forest and must tie himself to his bed each night with strong straps, because his sleepwalking turns him into a dangerous person.
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The premise feels like a decent psychological thriller setup, but Dorado doesn't really subvert it—he executes the 'dangerous sleepwalker' concept straightforwardly, and that's where most filmmakers would land anyway. Competent, but it doesn't make me say 'wait, WHAT?'
A formally controlled descent into psychological horror; Dorado's framing of the cabin as both refuge and prison, the ritualistic binding sequences, situates itself squarely in the lineage of European psychological thriller craft—precise, austere, and architecturally sound.
The decision to never show the sleepwalking, only the aftermath and the ritual preparation, is what crystallizes this into something beyond the premise—it makes the horror internal, forcing the performance and the camera's stillness to do all the heavy lifting in an 18-minute runtime.