Philip French 

Atrocious – review

Spanish police piece together amateur footage of something unspeakable in a moribund horror, writes Philip French
  
  

Atrocious
Mayhem occurs over a succession of nights in 'found footage' horror Atrocious. Photograph: PR

The week's only horror movie belongs to that moribund branch of the genre, the "found footage" picture. In this low-budget case, it purports to be a film assembled by the Spanish police from crude amateur footage shot by a middle-class boy and his sister investigating some mysterious happenings in a wood outside their newly restored house in Sitges, a town famous for its annual festival of horror and fantasy flicks. Mayhem occurs over a succession of nights, and yawns precede dawns.

 

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