Mystery|Thriller with plenty of tension , suspense , nightmares , and strange happenings . It packs a very good cast giving perfect interpretation and being elegantly directed by Gabe Ibáñez at his best . It deals with a mother called María (Elena Anaya) and her child Diego aboard a ferry to visit island El Hierro , located in Canary Islands . The bereaved woman sleeps and when awakens to find that Diego is gone . After she lost track of her son on the ferry she looks in the water . The woman reports that her young son is missing and police carries out a real search . She is certain that someone on board has taken him and that someone with the ship is also involved in his disappearance . After her son goes missing , the broken mother returns months later to the island of El Hierro to identify a body . The unsettling mother finds out her son is not the only one missing , but there seems to be no evidence . The very concerned mother has a lot of territory to cover in order to find her son . But as Maria suffers an overwhelming as well as upsetting feeling , she fights to discern the truth , that's why she takes matters into her own hands . Will Maria find her child or will she start to accept the truth? . No one admitted while the clock is ticking! .
Suspenseful film that will have you on the edge of your seat until an amazing finale . Intriguing film is packed with thrills , suspense , plot twists , and results to be quite entertaining . Stirring as well as exciting yarn displays intense drama , emotion , suspense , puzzled events , twists and turns . This is a suspenseful flick that really thrills . The moving atmosphere and perverse intrigue enhance as well as the protagonist investigates the rare events . From start to finish the intrigue and thrilling scenes are continuous till a striking ending . The picture develops a desolate atmosphere and a colorful but threatening ambient in the background , including overwhelming high cliffs and steep mountains . The film follows the wake from classic films , such as ¨Bunny Lake is missing¨ (1965) by Otto Preminger with Carol Linley and , recently , ¨Flightplan¨ (2005) by Robert Schwentke with Jodie Foster in a similar role to Elena Anaya . Javier Gullón 's script -along with uncredited Jesús De la Vega , whose story is based on- is plenty of enjoyable incidentals and interesting events one time the child vanishes . Screenplay does something strange by the weird end : it actually removes the stakes of everything that came before with its surprising revelation that had been built up by that point about the strange missing .
Evocative and adequate photography in brilliant color by professional cinematographer Alejandro Martinez . Shot on location in Hierro , the Atlantic island of Hierro is the smallest of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the coast of Africa under the jurisdiction of Spain . However , some scenes the producers chose instead to film the images in Agaete seaport , Gran Canaria . Atmospheric and appropriate musical score by composer Zacarias De La Riva , full of intriguing sounds and thrilling environment . This engrossing , riveting picture was effective and compellingly directed by Gabe Ibáñez who was an animator by trade before moving into film direction . Gabe considers to be one of the greatest achievements of his career and being his first film ; formerly making various shorts . In 1992 , he joined the field of digital post production , where he worked as 3D artist and visual effects supervisor in film and advertising for 8 years . Gabe is an expert on the study and development of computer generated image , this is very well showed in his last film : ¨Automat¨ with Antonio Banderas . Since 2000, he has worked as commercial director , and in 2001, he founded User T38, a company dedicated to digital preproduction and post production . In 2006 , he directed his first short film ¨Máquina¨ or ¨machine¨ that was awarded Clermont Ferrand's Special Jury Award in 2007 . In 2008 he directed this his first feature film, ¨Hierro¨ , released in the International Critic's Week at the Cannes Film Festival 2009 . And , subsequently , ¨Automat¨ , a superior science-fiction movie that will appeal to cinema buffs and interested in to watch an example of the kind of work filmmaker Gabe Ibañez . ¨Hierro¨ results to be one good film . Rating : Better than average . Worthwhile watching .
