This entertainingly preposterous thriller about a musician forced on pain of death to perform a note-perfect rendition of an unplayable piece finds Elijah Wood doing a decent impression of a concert pianist and director Eugenio Mira doing an even better one of Brian De Palma.

Wood is Tom Selznick, returning to the concert hall after a catastrophic bout of stage fright, his glamorous wife Emma (Kerry Bishé) caught in the sights of an unseen assassin as he wrestles with the terrors of La Cinquette. Recycling riffs (visual and thematic) from Argento’s Opera and De Palma’s Snake Eyes, this English-language Spanish production has set-piece spectacle to spare. The script may be clunky but the execution is slickly tense, with Mira playing (as Eric Morecambe would have it) all the right notes in all the right order.