Zona de caza
2012 · 17m · España
Directed by Jordi O. Romero
Genres: fantasy, horror, thriller
A young woman who has had a stressful working day decides to drown her sorrows in a bar. There she meets Nicolás, an attractive man who invites her to his house in the mountains, where a terrifying night under the full moon awaits her with a family of werewolves who have dark intentions for her.
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The scouts
A werewolf film that actually commits to the pulp—no self-aware winking, no ironic distance, just a pickup bar setup that becomes a genuine trap narrative. Romero's refusal to deconstruct the genre is exactly what makes it work; he plays it straight when everyone else is busy deconstructing.
The film sits comfortably in a lineage of European horror-thriller hybrids, with a structured three-act setup (bar, invitation, mountain house) that recalls classic Gothic restraint, though the execution lacks the deliberate visual grammar that would elevate it into sustained formal conversation.
That decision to keep the werewolves almost peripheral—the real horror lives in the family's casual cruelty and the protagonist's dawning realization—is what separates this from routine creature-feature mechanics; it's a choice about where to place audience dread that reshapes the entire 17 minutes.