NANA
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Santiago Aguirre
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
In a silent apartment, Leo, a three-month-old baby, is laid down in his crib while a sweet melody emanates from a hanging mobile; the mother leaves and the father stays relaxed in front of the television — but Leo is not alone: in the gloom of his room, a dark presence begins to materialize, a figure formed by a simple baby blanket.
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A baby-in-peril premise wrapped in the most tired horror vocabulary imaginable—shadowy figure, eerie mobile, neglectful parents—except Aguirre somehow commits to the bit so fully that the blanket-as-entity actually becomes genuinely unsettling instead of ridiculous, which is either brilliant subversion or accidental camp.
Aguirre's restraint and formal control—the fixed framing, the patient editing that lets dread accumulate through negative space rather than jump scares—situates this squarely in the lineage of slow-burn supernatural cinema, where tension lives in what the frame withholds.
The entire film hinges on that single choice: making the threat a child's blanket instead of a conventional entity, which transforms a stock horror setup into something genuinely disquieting and tender—it's the kind of constraint that forces maximum specificity out of minimal resources.