Revenant
2014 · 12m · España
Directed by Juanma Juárez
Genres: horror, surrealism, thriller
A woman is awakened at night by a knocking at her door and a presence that will not leave. No matter where she hides or how she runs, the entity keeps finding her, blurring the line between reality and imagination.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A haunted-woman procedural dressed up in surrealism—the premise wants to feel transgressive but lands exactly where every other folk-horror short does, which makes the whole thing feel inevitable rather than subversive.
Juárez works squarely in the lineage of psychological horror cinema, and the formal discipline—the measured pacing, the careful withholding of reveals—demonstrates real control, even if the narrative doesn't quite transcend its genre obligations.
The genius move here is treating the entity's relentlessness not as plot but as visual rhythm: the repetition of knocks, the way each hiding spot gets smaller, creates mounting dread through *structure* rather than jump scares, and that disciplined restraint is what makes twelve minutes feel suffocating.