Turbia noche
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Lucas Sancho
Genres: fantasy, horror, thriller
A young woman sleeps peacefully when a diabolical being suddenly wakes her and toys with her, until it finally reveals why it appeared.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise promises demonic menace but lands in familiar horror beats—a being torments a sleeper, reveals its reason, credits roll. It's competent genre work that doesn't resist anything; Sancho's playing it straight when the surreal tones suggest he could've gone weirder.
Three minutes of controlled dread with clear lineage to psychological horror and body-horror tradition; the formal restraint in the reveal works, though the film stays safely within its own lane without interrogating why we watch this scenario unfold.
The sound design—that moment when the ambient drone shifts to something almost organic, something *aware*—is what makes the torment feel present rather than performed; Sancho commits fully to the auditory uncanny, and that single choice transforms what could've been a jump-scare into something genuinely unsettling.