With a name like Atrocious it must be bad. But not bad meaning bad, bad meaning good.

In April 4th of 2010, Quintanilla family was found murdered in their countryside house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. Atrocious shows the real images of such evidence. Quintanilla family traveled to their old farm house in Sitges, where Christian and July investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. Both of them used to record all day whatever they did. On the fifth day of their arrival they were found dead under strange circumstances. ATROCIOUS shows the last five days of life for Cristian Quintanilla and his siblings. It also shows the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.

Sounds very Paranormal Activity-ish to us. But there are a few things different about it. First of all, it’s a Spanish language “found footage” film and the directorial debut of 27-year-old Fernando Barreda Luna. After being screened at Sundance, it became a favorite to break out and make waves. It doesn’t have much to do with a haunted house but word is that it’s scary as hell.

Check out the trailer.

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