Three wise monkeys
2015 · 7m · España
Directed by Miguel Ángel Font Bisier
Genres: coming-of-age, horror, thriller
Zoe is a sweet girl who lives with her parents, but evil lurks in every corner, a lesson she learns the hard way when she receives a figure representing the three wise monkeys.
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The scouts
A coming-of-age story that weaponizes folk symbolism instead of leaning on jump scares—takes the three wise monkeys (see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil) and flips it into a corruption narrative that actually *means* something. Bored by every other entry in this space, which is why this one lands.
Font Bisier taps into a lineage of European horror that treats mythology as moral scaffold, though the execution occasionally outpaces the conceptual clarity—solid formalist work, but the tonal weight doesn't always justify the runtime's demands.
The talisman itself becomes the pressure point: watching Zoe's relationship to the figurine shift from curiosity to revulsion is where the whole film lives, and that single object doing double duty as both innocuous childhood fetish and corrupting witness is the choice that makes this work.