The Grandmother

Name: La abuela
Genre: Horror
Released: 2022-01-28
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Almudena Amor, Vera Valdez, Karina Kolokolchykova

Original title: La abuela

2021
R
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.

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A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations

Trivia
It was scheduled to be released on October 22 2021. Later, was postponed for October 29 2021. On October 16 was announced that the release was postponed to January 5 2022. On December 23, after the increase in COVID-19 cases, was postponed for an undetermined date. On January 11 was announced that the release finally would be on January 28.

Goofs
(at around 11 mins) When the pilot announces the arrival to the airport of Madrid he says, "Welcome to the airport Adolfo Suárez Madrid" but this is incorrect as the airport's name, which they will always say is: "Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas".

Then they say they are going to land on the T4S. This terminal is only used for out of Europe or Non-Schengen planes, such as to Tokyo, America, etc. Paris is in Europe and part of the Schengen, the used terminal would have been T4 instead.

Connections
Features La ruleta de la suerte (2006)

Soundtracks
Elegía al jardín de mi abuela
by Vainica Doble
Written by Carmen Santonja / Gloria Van Aerssen / A.J. Nieto
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment España, S.L.
SGAE

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Review

Featured review

3/10

Incredibly slow paced and takes forever to virtually tell nothing...

I stumbled upon the 2021 Spanish horror movie "La Abuela" (aka "The Grandmother") from writer Carlos Vermut and director Paco Plaza here in 2022. I had not heard about the movie prior to watching it, but I will say that I was lured in by the movie's cover/poster, and the synopsis seemed fair enough.

And now having seen "La Abuela", I must say that this is a slow burn of a movie. The pacing of the narrative from writer Carlos Vermut is really slow and sort of mundane. If you are expecting a great horror experience, then "La Abuela" is not the best of choice.

The storyline was just ultimately too weak and slow paced for my liking. Sure, I will say that the concept of the storyline was definitely interesting, but it was just brutally killed by a very monotonously directed movie that moved ahead in snail pace.

I wasn't familiar with the cast list in "La Abuela", but I will say that the cast actually carried the movie well enough, especially when taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed by the script and storyline.

I managed to sit through the entire movie, but I wasn't particularly entertained, much less impressed. And there wasn't a single scary moment throughout the 100 minutes that the movie ran for.

My rating of "La Abuela" lands on a three out of ten stars. The movie was just lacking in crucial areas and moments to be worthwhile.