32 Malasana Street(2020)
2020 · Albert Pintó · 105 min
Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.
Drama · Horror
6.5708 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How 32 Malasana Street scares
32 Malasana Street builds its fear slowly through a cramped, shadowy apartment that feels wrong before anything even happens, leaning on mounting dread rather than constant jolts. The family setting and 1970s period feel add a sense of real vulnerability, since the danger closes in on ordinary people with nowhere else to go. There are a handful of sharp, well-placed scares, but most of the tension comes from things half-seen in doorways and hallways. It's a good pick if you like haunted house stories that take their time and end on a genuinely uneasy note rather than a quick thrill.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, 32 Malasana Street rates psychological 4/5, visceral 3/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 30 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 10 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 55 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, family-drama-flavored setup gradually tightens into escalating scares, building to a frantic, nonstop final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5.
How scary is 32 Malasana Street?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, 32 Malasana Street rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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