Infiesto

(2023) Infiesta (In Spanish with English subtitles) THRILLER It takes place during the year of Covid, and two homicide detectives of Samuel García (Isak Férriz) and Marta Castro(Iria Del Río) are assigned to the abduction case when a young ragged and disheveled girl reappears in the middle of the road before she is then put in a hospital. When the two detectives are coming up to see her, they apparently have their own problems at home, while Samuel is forbidden to see his mother at a care home, Marta's boyfriend has covid. By the time they got their first real lead a guy, Manuel Gomez known as "Dog Killer" somewhat owns a winery, only when he's found out he shoots himself. The movie was involving for about a hour and 20 minutes up until the third bad guy was discovered, totally ignores proper police protocol. Like, the police had the photo all along and they do not investigate everyone in the photo immediately, how ridiculous! Netflix must have wanted them to wrap the movie up or something!

The acting is quite good but they gave these poor people just poor scripting to deal with. To hear them repeatedly say "stop police" and people actually stop. Like really? That doesn't happen. As well our main protagonists wear the same clothes for the whole film...what is believed to be days and days. Now I know that we are supposed to believe that they are 2 police persons who are so determined to solve this case that they aren't sleeping. But also not showering or changing clothes??? And it seems they can get away with all sorts of suspect torture as well. Maybe things are different in Spain. But anyway... The description notes a girl just pops up that has been missing, and then they try to work backwards to find her kidnappers. And in doing so they find she is not the only child they have taken. And you find out along the way that they have been snatching up these preteens for ritual sacrifices. At first you think it's a little girl who returns and then low and behold she's a teen??? Who knew? I felt like the darn thing was taking forever to get anywhere. The underlings of the head honcho of this mini cult are happy to off themselves to make sure the Zaddy of this thing is safe. So I am sure the finale of this thing is some macho down and out between the male cop and the cult leader. I didn't stick it out.

In a small town teenagers are missing three months once...Two detectives try to find the killer and revealed lot of shocking news towards investigation... Finally the culprit is in their own police department... Good dark photography and it gives more excitement of this movie... Especially for investigation thriller fans.. Must watch investigation thriller movie..! In a small town teenagers are missing three months once...Two detectives try to find the killer and revealed lot of shocking news towards investigation... Finally the culprit is in their own police department... Good dark photography and it gives more excitement of this movie... Especially for investigation thriller fans.. Must watch investigation thriller movie..!

Detective film in which a serial killer is hunted down by the police during the Covid-19 pandemic in northern Spain. Containment sets the mood for the film (the city's empty streets), reinforced by humid, verdant vegetation set against a backdrop of small hills on the outskirts of the city. The scenery is one of the film's strengths: there's also an abandoned factory, semi-abandoned farms, a mine and the deserted town itself. These set elements give the film its own atmosphere. The other component is our duo of lead cops, who don't follow procedures, one of whom dies suddenly before the film's end. The failure to follow procedures leaves the viewer doubtful and diminishes the credibility of the whole. Finally, the rational explanation of the murders and their resolution introduces a mystical dimension, already seen many times, but here dosed just right so as not to unbalance the film. The whole thing is wrapped up in such a way as to make it impossible to guess who the killer is, despite the various hypotheses raised along the way. In short, an unoriginal but honestly effective Netflix B-movie. A film for Martians who land on planet Earth.

Here's The 4K Lowedown on "Infiesto" (TV-MA - 2023 - Netflix) Genre: Thriller/Crime My Score: 7.0 Cast=4 Acting=8 Plot=7 Ending=7 Story=6 Intense=8 Pace=5 Suspense=8 Crime=9 Twist=7 Two detectives are called to a small mining town where a young woman who had been left for dead for months has suddenly appeared, leaving the detectives to question what dark forces are at work. "We will need every cop dealing with the virus...you two will have to be alone on this." The movie takes place right after the lockdown from the pandemic started...it makes for a good background character here. The acting was solid for this Spanish slow burn thriller, but I had definite pace issues...I fell asleep about halfway through and had to watch it again. It checks some boxes as it tries to balance between the criminal and supernatural. This is a pretty good watch on Neflix, but I wouldn't see it again.

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This film is supposed to be taking place during peak pandemic, and I have to suspend my belief extremely high in order to believe that because, none of the characters that appear on screen are wearing masks (with exception for the few doctors that are present). The main characters are detectives and they should be wearing gloves during their explorations of crime scenes so as to not tamper with evidence/catch something but they have NO HAND COVERINGS AT ALL during the duration of the film. Another thing, the plot progression of the film feels slow and fast at the same time, like when you focus on the film it feels like nothing happens but then you turn your head for a second and the characters blaze through three different filming locations. It also feels like the director was doing too much by adding a human sacrificial cult/nefarious god layer to it. Though there is one thing I can praise about the movie, it's the visuals. It looks like the film has a brown or orange filter over the camera the entire movie. Personally I don't have an issue with the monotone feel it gives the film but I can see how it could get annoying to other watchers. The orange filter gives it a gritty and almost black and white feeling to it. It feels like a college student's experimental art project and I'm all here for it. I love the camera angles that the film pushes for, some of the scenes are with the camera shoved in the middle of everything and other shots feel like a true audience, observers peering in. I would not recommend this film to a friend or anyone for that matter, but this is a good movie to watch casually with a group of friends where you can all freely make the film together, like a bonding experience.

(2023) Infiesta (In Spanish with English subtitles) THRILLER It takes place during the year of Covid, and two homicide detectives of Samuel García (Isak Férriz) and Marta Castro(Iria Del Río) are assigned to the abduction case when a young ragged and disheveled girl reappears in the middle of the road before she is then put in a hospital. When the two detectives are coming up to see her, they apparently have their own problems at home, while Samuel is forbidden to see his mother at a care home, Marta's boyfriend has covid. By the time they got their first real lead a guy, Manuel Gomez known as "Dog Killer" somewhat owns a winery, only when he's found out he shoots himself. The movie was involving for about a hour and 20 minutes up until the third bad guy was discovered, totally ignores proper police protocol. Like, the police had the photo all along and they do not investigate everyone in the photo immediately, how ridiculous! Netflix must have wanted them to wrap the movie up or something!

Seriously, how do you make a crime thriller, about kidnapped girls, in an atmospheric, small, Spanish town, in some of the worst, wettest weather in history, and in the first few days of a global coronavirus pandemic - and still manage to make it so incredibly boring? The plot, but there is of it, is dull and predictable. And you've seen it all before missing girls across a number of towns are all apparently connected when one new girl escapes from her captors. Two cups, one male, one female are on the case. Gradually we discover that the bad guys number three, and the good cops have only managed to cut two. So the question of the film becomes, who could the third guy be? In fact, this is really the only plot element in a story where everything else is so linear that it's obvious from a mile off. And unfortunately in this case, it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who the third guy is, given that there are so few contenders among the cast. What is it about recent Spanish crime thrillers that a mistake atmosphere for gloom, and portentousness for plot? While you're pulling out that admittedly, rhetorical question, go watch something else.