Halloween 2018 (Regreso a Casa)
2018 · 9m · España
Directed by Elvira Bernal
A mother and her daughter are returning home after the festivities when someone suddenly crosses their path.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A mother-daughter walk home turns sinister—setup's familiar, but Bernal seems less interested in the jump scare than in what happens *after*, which is refreshingly perverse for a 9-minute horror.
Competent thriller construction, though it lands squarely in genre convention; the tension mechanics are well-oiled rather than formally inventive.
The real craft lives in the sound design and the fractional moments of stillness before the encounter—Bernal trusts ambient dread over orchestration, and that restraint is what sells the unease on a micro budget.