Terapia
2010 · 17m · España
Directed by Marc Nadal
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
Jorge enters an apartment fleeing something and finds a young woman there; neither remembers how they arrived, and together they discover the place hides a horrible secret.
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The amnesia setup feels like thriller scaffolding until the apartment itself becomes the real antagonist—a space that rewrites its inhabitants' memories. Nadal's refusing the obvious psychological explanation, which is either a waste or genuinely unsettling depending on your tolerance for surrealist trap-door logic.
A formally precise exercise in spatial horror that echoes the locked-room tradition while fragmenting narrative causality in ways that situate it somewhere between Buñuel and contemporary post-genre cinema. The restraint in the filmmaking—what Nadal withholds rather than reveals—marks a considered approach to the uncanny.
The decision to make the apartment's geography contradict itself—the way rooms refuse to connect logically—is what elevates this from a locked-room thriller into something genuinely disorienting; that formal choice, held consistently through edit and production design, is the entire film.