The Grandmother (La abuela) — Paco Plaza’s Chilling and Brave Journey into the Horror of Decrepitude

"The celluloid unspools like a sterile, chilly bandage in Claqueta Ácida’s screening room. Paco Plaza—the man who once gifted us the adrenaline rush of [REC] (2007) and its sequel, that glorious feast of rotting flesh and screams trapped in a Barcelona elevator—decided in 2021 that it was time for a radical shift. Farewell to frenetic first-person action; hello to slow-burn psychological horror. The leap isn’t flawless, but it’s a kamikaze act of bravery that demands dissection. Granny (2022) is his latest creation, an attempt to channel the dense atmospheres of Ari Aster or Robert Eggers, draping Spanish costumbrismo in the garb of witchcraft, old age, and physical decay.