David Arnold The Nameless is a pretty dark movie and deals with subject matter that a lot of people will find quite disturbing...the death of a 6-year-old girl. Apart from the opening scenes you don't see anything that bad, but it's the mere thought of child abuse that some people will find hard to stomach.The movie starts off pretty well, and immediately gets your attention by dealing with the death and mutilated body of the wee girl. We see the effects this has on the mother, Claudia (Emma Vilarasau), as she becomes addicted to tranquillisers and is working herself into the ground just to try and cope with the loss of her daughter even 5 years on.After Claudia gets a phone call from someone who claims to be her daughter, I actually thought it would start to pick up and get interesting, but unfortunately it doesn't really go anywhere. The story had so much going for it to be a really good psychological thriller but it's like it got to a dead end and struggled to find it's way again.The Nameless is extremely slow going and is kind of really all over the place as well. For instance, one minute you're watching Claudia looking in an abandoned building for her daughter, then it suddenly jumps to another scene dealing with another part of the story and with this happening, if you aren't paying attention, you will easily get lost. I know foreign movies have a tendency to do this, but it seemed more than usual with this film.The ending was a damp squib as well, and even if you are not completely lost by then you'll still just be left thinking "What the f**k was that all about?!" Overall, what started out to be a promising film actually turned out to be quite disappointing, especially as the director was the same person who made the very good REC and REC 2 movies.

Robert J. Maxwell I wasn't able to see the last half hour so am unable to comment on the whole of this Spanish production. Six years ago, the young daughter of Emma Vilarasau disappeared, leading to the break up of her marriage. A skeleton resembling the daughter's turns up. Then, out of nowhere, a phone call from the girl begging her for help and directing her to a spot that will prove she knows something. The spot turns up a shoe.With no one else to turn to, Vilarasau corners the cop who originally handled the case, Karra Elejalde. Together they try to unravel the mystery of the child's death -- or at least her disappearance. As in so many procedurals, the pursuit takes them into the history of sadism, the occult, the concentration camps, the Nazis, the insane, the disfigured, the decomposing, and the horrors of twelve-tone music.It's difficult to assess the thing. The photography and musical score are okay. The acting is quite good -- both Vilarasau and Elejalde are middle aged and far from Hollywood's idea of what's handsome. They look like ordinary people who might be pushing carts through a supermarket towards the packaged macaroni and cheese.At one point, Elejalde wakes from a nightmare and does NOT thrust his terrified face into the camera. One more cliché avoided. Good for them. They need a respite from those stereotypical scenes -- the cop turning over his shield, the newspaper reporter fired for following his own story, the pinned hand groping for the weapon.But the editor may have been on some sort of psychedelic because those nightmares are doozies, full of nanosecond images and noises like ripping paper and fuse boxes blowing up. It's really a tiresome nuisance.The plot begins with promise, although the "call from the supposedly dead" is a hoary device. Still, it could lead anywhere, maybe somewhere different. But it doesn't. It leads us through "The Omen," "The Silence of the Lambs" because there's an insane prisoner who speaks to the mother in riddles, a couple of "Twilight Zone" episodes, and from any generic horror movie.So far, that is. It's possible that the ending pulls it all together and suddenly all the familiar conceits are revealed as relevant.

ma-cortes Good and unsettling Catalan terror/thriller by expert filmmaker Jaume Balaguero and based on the British novel "The Nameless" by Ramsey Campbell . More spine-tingling from the director of ¨Darkness¨ , a convincing sense of impeding dread and essential to any effective Horror-Thriller . Some years after a little girl was killed when her mummy named Claudia (Emma Villarasau) , addicted to tranquilizers , seemed to have started to recover , but a phone call once again shatters her existence : "Mummy, it's me... come and get me". Helped by an ex-cop named Massera(Karra Elejalde) and a parapsychology journalist named Quiroga (Tristan Ulloa) who is expert in the supernatural, she sets out on a desperate search for encounter her daughter . Other mysterious clues appear , indicating that the daughter is indeed still alive , and very much in risk . Later on , they discover incredible deeds : a sect of the occult with conceal things and dark secrets which rejects its own name , called ¨Nameless¨ and wishes the essence of pure evil. The official English title is The Nameless -but the correct translation is "Los Sin Nombre", which to me is far more creepy- lives up to Jaume Balaguero's reputation . This suspenseful and frightening movie was produced by the successful Catalan producers Julio and Carlos Fernandez from Fantastic factory ; it displays relentless horror , thrills , intrigue , shocks , hard-edged drama , plot twists , creepy images and some gore when crime takes place . Director Jaume Balagueró (Rec, Rec 2, Fragiles , Darkness and the recent "while you sleep" or Mientras Duermes) uses that uneasy non-knowledge for both horror and occultism , introducing brief psychological observations . Interesting writing credits by the same director/writer Balaguero based on a story by Ramsey Campbell . ¨Nameless¨ is a motion picture that balances precariously over the terror and occultism . The overall result is chilling proof that Balagueró can take a little budget while delivering a completely different scare . Extraordinary performance by Emma Villarasau , she plays a real tour-de-force in one of his best acting of his career as a solitary and unhappy mother , unsettling for past records and disturbing future . Furthermore , excellent Karra Elejalde as a run-down ex-'policeman . The picture packs a thrilling and intriguing musical score by Carles Cases . Furthermore , a cold and appropriate cinematography by Xavi Gimenez , Balaguero's usual .'The Nameless' demonstrates director Balagueró's versatility , resulting to be a sublime thriller that every genre buff should be excited for . Rating : Good , better than average . The movie will appeal to thriller and terror fans . Worthwhile watching .

Claudio Carvalho In Spain, the vanished six years old daughter of the editor Claudia (Emma Vilarasau) is found completely mutilated in a well by the police, being recognized by her husband only due to a bracelet and her shorter leg. Five years later, Claudia, divorced and addicted in tranquilizer, receives a short phone contact from her daughter. She looks for the former detective in charge of the investigation, and together with a reporter of a magazine of parapsychology, they find the existence of a diabolic sect called "Los Sin Nombre" that searches the essence of pure evil."Los Sin Nombre" was recently released on DVD in Brazil, and it is a very dark and scary movie. The direction, screenplay, cinematography and acting are excellent. The characters are well developed and the cinematography is very cold, without using bright colors, and the malevolent and malefic story is highly indicated for those viewers that liked, for example, thrillers like "Seven", "The Silence of the Lambs", "Rosemary's Baby" and "Tesis". My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Seita"("The Sect")