Above average thriller with plenty of twists , turns and a suspenseful finale . Well-paced film with some really brilling scenes and disturbing images. It contains drama, tense events , shocks , and thrilling sequences especially in its final part . Policía Foral inspector Amaia Salazar (Marta Etura) , a former FBI agent, undertakes a race against time to find out a murderer while confronting the nightmares of her past . Amaia lives in Pamplona with her American husband, James, an artist. She returns to her hometown of Baztan, in Navarra and nearly Basque Country , to investigate the murder of a young teen, 13-year-old Ainhoa Elizasu , and on the body shows up a cake placed , it results to be the local txantxigorri cake . Ainhoa was found naked and posed in the woods with several mysterious on her corpse . Amaia links this with the death six weeks earlier of Carla Huarte, who was strangled with the same type of rope, and fears a serial killer may be at work . Both bodies were covered with hairs from multiple animals, an oddity as none of the bodies show marks from any animals . Shortly after , Amaia and James move in with her Aunt Engrasi (Itziar Aizpuru), who raised her for most of her life , and she believes mythological beings that were thought to build megaliths, as she insists that the Basajaún is real and a huge protector of the forest, and that one saved Engrasi's life when she was a girl by stopping her from falling into a cavern. She is greeted warmly by her sister Rosaura (Patricia López) , who is staying with Engrasi because of a fight with her husband, Freddy (Mikel Losada). Amaia's relationship is strained with her elder sister Flora (Elvira Minguez), who with Rosaura now runs the family business, a commercial bakery. Flora is divorced from her ex-husband, Victor, and is resentful of Amaia, who is trying to start a family. Flora accuses Amaia of abandoning their mentally ill mother , Rosario (Susi Sanchez) , even though she had a pathological hatred for Amaia. Amaia instructs police officer Jonan Etxaide (Nene) to look back 20 years for similar patterns and other events occurring in Baztan. He connects several murders she believes could have been committed by the same killer . She believes she is looking for an older male who was likely sexually repressed in his youth, and who would be familiar to the girls , making it likely they would go willingly with him. Later on , events are about to get even worst , including unintented and strongly horrible results.
This is a top-notch thriller in which step by step mystery starts to be unfold ; dealing with a young Police Inspector faces off a serial killer while dealing with the ghosts of her infancy . It packs twisted mysteries , emotion , thrills , action and suspense . This is a highly mysterious and cerebral thriller , filled with plot twists , including an unexpected denouement in its ending part . From start to finish the complicated intrigue , fast-paced , thrills , and suspense result to be continuous . Hitchcock-style psychological thriller , being surprisingly good and compellingly shot . Adding ancient traditions on a dark as well as rainy land plenty of supertitions and witchery .The original as well entertaining premise is overspread across the movie adding some brief conventional pitfalls . Including mythological and fantastic elements , as the serial killer is dubbed El Basajaún ("Lord of the Woods") by the media after a Basque , Navarra mythological creature protecting flocks of livestock , an enormous , hairy hominid dwelling in the woods and even appearing the murdered corpses with faces scrubbed clean of makeup and hairs neatly arranged, and a cake placed on her shaved pubis . The picture is very well , though sometimes confusing as well as overlong and it has a lot of turns . However , being very entertaining for its successive suspense . The main cast is frankly good , as Marta Etura who plays perfectly the stubborn Inspector Amaia Salazar . Support cast is pretty good with important secondaries such as such as Elvira Mínguez as Flora Salazar , Amaia's sister , Francesc Orella as Fermín Montés , Itziar Aizpuru as Tía Engrasi , Susi Sanchez as abusive mother who is in a nursing home, Nene as Jonan Etxaide , Miquel Fernández as Padre de Amaia ,Pedro Casablanc as Comisario General , Colin McFarlane as Aloisius Dupree , Benn Northover as James , Paco Tous as Forensic San Martín , Manolo Solo as Doctor Basterra , Ramón Barea as Alfonso Álvarez de Toledo and Francesc Orella .
This mystery murder was stunningly produced by various prestigious producers : Sofía Fábregas , Mercedes Gamero , Adrián Guerra , Núria Valls , Thomas Distch , all of them have financed a great number of successes in the recent Spanish cinema . This over-the-top thriller displays a colorful and luxurious cinematography full of lights and shades by Flavio Martínez Labiano . Being shot on location in Valley of Baztan , Navarra . And stirring and emotive score , plenty of emotion and intriguing sounds by Fernando Velázquez . Interesting and thrilling screenplay by Luiso Berdejo based on the the first eponymous novel written by Dolores Redondo , "El guardián invisible". This recent film by Spanish writer/director Fernando González Molina was well and professionally directed .This Spanish filmmaker Fernando González Molina has made various box-office films , being his first big hit : ¨Tres metros sobre el cielo¨ (2010). And he also made the sequel : ¨Tengo Ganas De Ti¨ (2012) , in which ¨H¨ Mario Casas falls for a gorgeous dancer called Gin , Clara Lago , but he discovers again his first great love : Maria Valverde . He went on directing successes as the $13.5 million period drama "Palm Trees in the Snow" also with Mario Casas and a thriller , this ¨El Guardian Invisible¨ and the recently premeired , the sequel ¨Legado en los huesos¨ (2019) with Marta Etura again . And made several TV series as ¨Luna , Misterio De Calenda¨ , ¨Bienvenidos Al Lolita¨ and ¨Los Hombres De Paco¨ . Rating : 7/10 . Well worth seeing . Better than average .
This is a top-notch thriller in which step by step mystery starts to be unfold ; dealing with a young Police Inspector faces off a serial killer while dealing with the ghosts of her infancy . It packs twisted mysteries , emotion , thrills , action and suspense . This is a highly mysterious and cerebral thriller , filled with plot twists , including an unexpected denouement in its ending part . From start to finish the complicated intrigue , fast-paced , thrills , and suspense result to be continuous . Hitchcock-style psychological thriller , being surprisingly good and compellingly shot . Adding ancient traditions on a dark as well as rainy land plenty of supertitions and witchery .The original as well entertaining premise is overspread across the movie adding some brief conventional pitfalls . Including mythological and fantastic elements , as the serial killer is dubbed El Basajaún ("Lord of the Woods") by the media after a Basque , Navarra mythological creature protecting flocks of livestock , an enormous , hairy hominid dwelling in the woods and even appearing the murdered corpses with faces scrubbed clean of makeup and hairs neatly arranged, and a cake placed on her shaved pubis . The picture is very well , though sometimes confusing as well as overlong and it has a lot of turns . However , being very entertaining for its successive suspense . The main cast is frankly good , as Marta Etura who plays perfectly the stubborn Inspector Amaia Salazar . Support cast is pretty good with important secondaries such as such as Elvira Mínguez as Flora Salazar , Amaia's sister , Francesc Orella as Fermín Montés , Itziar Aizpuru as Tía Engrasi , Susi Sanchez as abusive mother who is in a nursing home, Nene as Jonan Etxaide , Miquel Fernández as Padre de Amaia ,Pedro Casablanc as Comisario General , Colin McFarlane as Aloisius Dupree , Benn Northover as James , Paco Tous as Forensic San Martín , Manolo Solo as Doctor Basterra , Ramón Barea as Alfonso Álvarez de Toledo and Francesc Orella .
This mystery murder was stunningly produced by various prestigious producers : Sofía Fábregas , Mercedes Gamero , Adrián Guerra , Núria Valls , Thomas Distch , all of them have financed a great number of successes in the recent Spanish cinema . This over-the-top thriller displays a colorful and luxurious cinematography full of lights and shades by Flavio Martínez Labiano . Being shot on location in Valley of Baztan , Navarra . And stirring and emotive score , plenty of emotion and intriguing sounds by Fernando Velázquez . Interesting and thrilling screenplay by Luiso Berdejo based on the the first eponymous novel written by Dolores Redondo , "El guardián invisible". This recent film by Spanish writer/director Fernando González Molina was well and professionally directed .This Spanish filmmaker Fernando González Molina has made various box-office films , being his first big hit : ¨Tres metros sobre el cielo¨ (2010). And he also made the sequel : ¨Tengo Ganas De Ti¨ (2012) , in which ¨H¨ Mario Casas falls for a gorgeous dancer called Gin , Clara Lago , but he discovers again his first great love : Maria Valverde . He went on directing successes as the $13.5 million period drama "Palm Trees in the Snow" also with Mario Casas and a thriller , this ¨El Guardian Invisible¨ and the recently premeired , the sequel ¨Legado en los huesos¨ (2019) with Marta Etura again . And made several TV series as ¨Luna , Misterio De Calenda¨ , ¨Bienvenidos Al Lolita¨ and ¨Los Hombres De Paco¨ . Rating : 7/10 . Well worth seeing . Better than average .