The Invisible Guardian: Spanish Serial Killer film with a Fortean twist set in the Basque Province of Navarra. Amaia Salazar is a detective inspector in Pamplona who is posted to her hometown to investigate the killings of young women. The town is in a mountain valley where local myths and superstitions live on, including that of Basajaun (Lord of the Forest) a Basque Big Foot. Some think Basajaun is responsible for the murders others see him as a protector. In Spanish, English and Basque, subtitled. On Netflix. 7/10

Very good and great plot. Really enjoyed it despite Spanish subtitles.

It's OK if you liked it, loved it and/or wrote a review giving it a high score. Some people like stuff, some don't. It's OK. But, in my very honest opinion, it's bad. It actually took me 3 days to watch the entire thing. It was so boring that I could only watch parts of it each day; and I just finished watching it because i wanted to put some closure into it, and I was giving it a chance to save itself at the end. But no. It sucks. It tries to be a police-thriller, and it fails. It also tried to be about supernatural-horror, and it fails there as well. The scenes are disconnected, the police-thriller parts don't fit with the supernatural ones. The main character, Amaia, is supposed to be an intelligent and hard-case investigator (she left Spain to join the FBI, and suddenly she is back in Spain). But she is weak, always afraid, cries all the time (more than half the movie), everyone treats her like human refuse and she allows it, remaining silent and crying. She is a FBI agent, and suddenly she has police authority in Spain, but no one respects her, so she is kicked out of the case, but is praised at the end...even after failing horribly. The cast is bad. Each actor has only one facial expression. Perhaps they went to the same acting school as Kristen Stewart. The characters have no depth at all, which makes them all awkward. From time to time, the "supernatural" aspect of the movie pops up, and it makes no sense. At all. Weird stuff and occult-related just get thrown into our faces. No explanation, no elaboration. Nothing. And that's where the "Invisible Guardian" is supposed to be. But this entire part could be removed from the movie and it wouldn't make a difference! After all, it's only mentioned for like 3 minutes overall. It looks like they were thinking "oh, we're making something with a supernatural background? no problem! we'll just put an elderly aunt there who believes all this crap and plays Tarot and we'll give her some scenes." These scenes don't make any sense and are irrelevant. They all fail at their goal. It's supposed to be scary (I think), but it's just silly. And the investigators, well, Amaia and some other dude look at some photos and suddenly they describe the entire psychological profile of the suspect. Everything. Just by looking at a couple of photos. That's the part where we're supposed to say "wow, they're really serious and intelligent cops". But all I could say was "wth did you smoke, dude?". By the very end, they throw in some information that was hidden for nearly 110 minutes, so now everything makes sense and the criminal is discovered. At the very end, Amaia, once again, gives an entire psychological profile review on him, with info she never had access to. Oh, but they also found nearly 100 bodies in a cave. Yeah, but doesn't matter. Case closed. Congratulations. Now everyone in the city likes you. They had no reason to hate you before, but hate you they did. Your psycho mother nearly killed you when you were a little kid, she got locked up in the crazy-ward, attacked nurses, ate parts of their faces. But it's you they all hate. But now they like you and respect you. Even though you weren't really the one the caught the bad guy at the end. Have I mentioned the acting is really bad? Well, it is. The crazy stuff that goes on in Amaia's head? She may be crazy as her mother. The fact heat everyone in that small village knew everyone, but didn't know the real story of Amaia's past nor had any clue as to who the murderer was? It's all good, they had a FBI detective (that they all hated) to solve the case. But what of the bodies? I said. case. closed!

Closer to reality then a Sherlock Holmes on the one hand, but intriguing mystery blended in on the other. I do like the depth of the history/youth of the inspector, gives her more character and well acted emotions all the way. So this movie basically has several good points that could interest a broad audience. And it deserves it, good build up and pace, I'm sure many will enjoy this movie.