File 81: masterpiece of horror and bad sound

James Wan, master of modern horror, is the most recognizable name in the opening credits of

. The creator of the

or

sagas welcomes this Netflix series under his umbrella as executive producer. Its author is

, to whom from now on we will give an equivalent title: mistress of terror. Because with his series he has achieved something that Wan is very clear about with his films: that

. File 81 is very scary.

It is true that I am not the best person to judge this. Even Henderson's Bigfoot scares me. I still have nightmares about the

alien from

and every time Iker Jiménez invents another haunted place in

, I see how the fence closes in on those I frequent. If they offered me to live for free in the building in which

takes place, I would say no. In neither of the two buildings. Neither in the apartment building that burns down in a mysterious fire in 1994, nor in the isolated mansion where a videotape restorer is confronted with disturbing recordings made just before the incident.

, the city where the Rebecca Sonnenshine series is filmed. If they gave me a flat in the Dakota building in New York, I would think very hard about living in such a perfect place... that appears in

Unlike Roman Polanski's film, which trusts everything to the psychological,

knows the language of its genre perfectly and knows that

. Her treatment of sound is well aware that many of her viewers will be watching her alone and with headphones on. On a crowded train in broad daylight, the series has given me goosebumps just from its sound. I blame (read: applaud) that on their sound design team. I can also associate it with the fact that

is loosely inspired by a

.

But a scary story doesn't just have to scare. If it doesn't scare, we're going to go wrong, of course, but once that purpose has been fulfilled, we can ask for more from the horror genre.

gives it. With the occasional inconsistency in the script, the Netflix series

. On the other hand, the absence of big stars in its cast automatically generates a plus of credibility and plausibility, because when Gal Gadot or Matt Damon live through hell, one can almost guarantee that both will reach the end of the story, if not healthy and saved, yes alive. With the characters that in

played by Mamoudou Athie (Dan) and Dina Shihabi (Melody) we don't have that certainty.

However, that does not mean that we do not care, because we

.

At the same time, we know that they are both daredevils because we have seen many scary movies and series before.

That is why we are clear from the beginning of

that what they propose to Dan at some point will be a trap.

The horror genre is made of comforting certainties and surprises that make you hit a boat in the seat of the AVE.

Rebecca Sonnenshine knows a lot about how to combine those two ingredients.

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