Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy is set in Spain where a nurse named Angela (Goya Toledo) lives in an apartment with her young daughter Estrella (Nerea Inchausti). Together they manage but Estrella sometimes gets lonely & has no friends, except for the imaginary friends from all the horror films she watches including the chainsaw wielding Leatherface & a Vampire (Eduardo Farelo). However it seems that her new Vampire friend may not be as imaginary after all...
Known to English speaking audiences as A Real Friend this was one of the six Spanish made-for-telly Films to Keep You Awake & so far out of the four I have seen I have only liked one, as far as Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy goes I thought it was simply terrible in every regard. The script by Jorge Arenillas & director Enrique Urbizu is a total mess from start to finish & feels like a cheap unimaginative Pan's Labyrinth (2006) rip-off. It's almost impossible to convey just how much I disliked Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy without giving away the so clichéd it's untrue twist ending which is one of those horrible 'get out of jail' type endings for filmmakers so every stupid, nonsense & downright tedious thing that comes before it is left pointless & irrelevant. I was going into this comment about to list all the plot holes, contradiction's, aspects that don't work & general sloppiness but that awful, awful twist ending really does render the whole film pointless & in a frustrating beyond conventional criticism sort of way. At only just over seventy minutes Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy is as boring as hell, there's so many scenes of people watching other people or acting suspiciously to raise the mystery & intrigue levels but when the ending is such a cop out as it is what's the point? There isn't one, that's what.
Director Urbizu turns in a decent looking flick, there's not really much else to say about it. Like most of the other Films to Keep You Awake Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quielíen Soy isn't scary in the slightest, it doesn't even try to be really & the horror element is more of an afterthought. Any resemblance Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy has to an actual horror film is purely coincidental. If there's anyone out there who dislikes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake check out the few scenes in this which are supposed to be from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) & realise just how bad it could have been! There are also some bizarre images which I imagine were meant to be subliminal, from a single large '!' on a huge bus shelter poster to a weird balloon carrying guy who turns up on a couple of occasions I really have no idea what the intention of the filmmakers was.
Filmed in Barcelone in Spain the production values are reasonable if unspectacular. There are no special effects to speak of & a very limited cast. The acting seems alright, shot in Spanish the subtitles are clear enough but that guy at the end speaks quite fast so the subtitles disappear very quickly & you will have to be quick to read them. Personally I am not a fan of subtitled films simply because they are a huge distraction.
Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy is another useless Film to Keep You Awake that as far as I am concerned is more likely to send you to sleep. The twist ending is just awful & really does render the rest of the film utterly pointless & redundant.
Known to English speaking audiences as A Real Friend this was one of the six Spanish made-for-telly Films to Keep You Awake & so far out of the four I have seen I have only liked one, as far as Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy goes I thought it was simply terrible in every regard. The script by Jorge Arenillas & director Enrique Urbizu is a total mess from start to finish & feels like a cheap unimaginative Pan's Labyrinth (2006) rip-off. It's almost impossible to convey just how much I disliked Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy without giving away the so clichéd it's untrue twist ending which is one of those horrible 'get out of jail' type endings for filmmakers so every stupid, nonsense & downright tedious thing that comes before it is left pointless & irrelevant. I was going into this comment about to list all the plot holes, contradiction's, aspects that don't work & general sloppiness but that awful, awful twist ending really does render the whole film pointless & in a frustrating beyond conventional criticism sort of way. At only just over seventy minutes Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy is as boring as hell, there's so many scenes of people watching other people or acting suspiciously to raise the mystery & intrigue levels but when the ending is such a cop out as it is what's the point? There isn't one, that's what.
Director Urbizu turns in a decent looking flick, there's not really much else to say about it. Like most of the other Films to Keep You Awake Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quielíen Soy isn't scary in the slightest, it doesn't even try to be really & the horror element is more of an afterthought. Any resemblance Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy has to an actual horror film is purely coincidental. If there's anyone out there who dislikes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake check out the few scenes in this which are supposed to be from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) & realise just how bad it could have been! There are also some bizarre images which I imagine were meant to be subliminal, from a single large '!' on a huge bus shelter poster to a weird balloon carrying guy who turns up on a couple of occasions I really have no idea what the intention of the filmmakers was.
Filmed in Barcelone in Spain the production values are reasonable if unspectacular. There are no special effects to speak of & a very limited cast. The acting seems alright, shot in Spanish the subtitles are clear enough but that guy at the end speaks quite fast so the subtitles disappear very quickly & you will have to be quick to read them. Personally I am not a fan of subtitled films simply because they are a huge distraction.
Películas Para no Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy is another useless Film to Keep You Awake that as far as I am concerned is more likely to send you to sleep. The twist ending is just awful & really does render the rest of the film utterly pointless & redundant.