Horror movies directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

How Who Can Kill a Child? scares: Who Can Kill a Child? builds its horror slowly, letting the heat and silence of a sunny Spanish island turn wrong before anything violent even happens. There are almost no jump scares here; instead it works through unease, dread, and a growing sense of helplessness as the normal rules of safety stop making sense. Once things turn physical, it's upsetting rather than thrilling, and the movie is more interested in putting you in an impossible moral bind than in shocking you with gore. It's a heavy, uncomfortable watch that sticks with you, not a fun scare-machine.

How The House That Screamed scares: There's a suffocating, closed-in feeling to this one, like being trapped inside a cold institution where cruelty is just part of the daily routine. The pace is slow and deliberate, building unease through control, humiliation, and repressed tension rather than jolts or shocks. It plays more like a grim character study of power and abuse behind gothic school walls, with the horror creeping up on you gradually until it turns genuinely nasty by the end. This suits patient viewers who like dread that builds through atmosphere and human cruelty rather than fast scares or supernatural menace.