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Four years ago, artist Nacho (Gustavo Salmerón) disappeared under
mysterious circumstances, now his ID has been found, and his six closest
friends (Fele Martínez, María Esteve, Adrià Collado, Lucía Jiménez,
Elsa Pataky, Sergio Peris-Mancheta) are questioned about the disappearance
(again), but they stick to their story, they were on a camping trip
without him the day he vanished into thin air - which is of course not
quite true, Nacho was on the trip with them, but proved to be such an
asshole that the others decided to play a prank on him but accidently
killed him in the process. Then they buried him in an old shack. Now
they want to dig up Nacho's body again and hide it somewhere else, but
somehow the shack catches fire that almost kills all of them. Back home,
the friends start to be killed off one by one under mysterious, even
supernatural circumstances, and only Iván (Fele Martínez) and Clara
(María Esteve) are slowly figuring out what's going on - and that's
actually Nacho who's doing the killings ... but how? Nacho is dead after
all. The whole story gets weirder though when things start to disappear
and Iván and Clara's memories about the fire in the shack gradually
change. Eventually, Iván meets Nacho who tells him they all died in the
fire and are now dead and in limbo, and with everything that's happening,
Iván even believes him - and then visits Nacho's father (Adolfo
Fernández) to confess everything to him ... Then Clara wakes up in a
hospital - it's the day after the fire in the shack, which she has
survived. Her friends are dead, all but Iván, who's still in a coma, and
his survival is uncertain. In limbo, Iván meets Nacho again, who now
tells Iván he's not actually dead but in a coma, but obviously Iván's
belated confession to his father has moved Nacho, so he doesn't kill him
like the others but grants him a new lease of life. For the
most part, this is pretty much your typical slasher movie, and it's
competently acted and directed, and the somehow grotesque murders add a
bit of colours to the tried-and-true plot. However, the film eventually
takes a turn to the worse when everything is revealed to be just a dream:
The plot is just not strong enough to sustain that, and the theory behind
it is downright silly - in all its efforts to be intelligent. Not a
total failure, but not really worth your time and money, either.
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