Film

Sweet Home

Name: Sweet Home
Genre: Horror
Released: 2015
Cast: Ingrid García Jonsson, Bruno Sevilla, José María Blanco, Eduardo Lloveras, Luka Peroš

Other titles called Sweet Home: the 2020 series (Netflix).

A Spanish home-invasion thriller that traps a couple in a semi-abandoned building with a hooded killer still living there. Lean and propulsive, built on the simple terror of enclosed spaces and nowhere to run. It's for people who want their horror genuinely scary rather than clever—eighty minutes of mounting dread with no time for you to catch your breath.

TMDb rating

2.5

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