Onírico. El hombre del sueño

2012 · 48m · España

Directed by Juanjo Haro

Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller

Tones: dark, surreal, tense

Psychologist Gonzalo Iturbe offers to help Elisa recover from lucid-dream experiments after she lost a leg in an accident, but his hunger for knowledge endangers those around him.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

A psychologist weaponizing lucid dreams as experimental leverage—it's the kind of premise that makes you squint and lean in, sci-fi thriller machinery built to service something genuinely twisted about knowledge and obsession. Everyone else will call it surreal; Felix calls it necessary.

Felix

Haro constructs a careful formal dialogue between the waking and dream logic, positioning the film within the tradition of psychological horror that interrogates the boundaries of consciousness—though the 48-minute runtime asks whether ambition here exceeds editorial precision.

Margot

The decision to let the amputee's vulnerability become the actual site of the thriller's moral gravity, rather than fetishizing it, is what makes the power dynamic between Gonzalo and Elisa cut so deep—that's the craft choice that transforms a high-concept premise into something that actually unsettles.

Zoe