Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

CookieInvent There's a good chance the film will make you laugh out loud, but if it doesn't, there's an even better chance it will make you openly sob.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Backlash007 "Spoiler"I did not know much about Shiver before I watched it. The only thing I did know was that Dark Sky films was releasing it and they are a company that I really trust right now. I can gladly say that they did not abuse that trust. Shiver is a good, albeit flawed, fright flick. It starts out in one direction and goes to a very unexpected place. The film follows Santi, a young man who has an affliction not dissimilar to vampires. Santi is highly sensitive to sunlight and also has fangs. However, this has little to do with the actual plot other than to make you think Santi could be a monster. Because there is a monster of sorts that lives in the woods near the small village where Santi and his mother have moved to. There are a few animal mutilations and murders that coincide with Santi's arrival and the townsfolk believe Santi to be responsible. I don't want to give anything away, but Santi is not the killer. The killer's identity is a highly original concept and it's what I think will separate Shiver and make it memorable. Also, there are a few scenes in broad daylight that gave me chills. That is an incredible accomplishment to me. And that's why I recommend seeing the picture. I think towards the end of the film Shiver becomes a little too routine. That is my main complaint. It goes down the same tired road we've been down before. It had a lot of potential to be different and it didn't take full advantage of that. I still think it's a good film because it did give me the "shivers" and I suggest seeing it especially if you are a fan of Spanish horror.

Jasha Hirsh WARNING: SPOILERS. Junio Valverde is excellent as always as the 17-year-old protagonist Santi in this flick, although the "horror" genre here calls for the kind of over-the-top acting that can't bring out the best in any actor. Although there are a few mild surprises, Valverde is really the only bright spot and the only factor that led me to actually finish the movie, aside from some neat cinematographic touches and some brief but salutary film time by Blanca Suárez as the girlfriend and Mar Sodupe as his mother. Santi's "photophobia" (actually a physical reaction to sunlight), so prominently featured at the beginning, never leads anywhere, and his growing canines are a puzzlingly naked and unresolved red herring.Nevertheless, there is a good deal of beauty in the portrayal of the shadowy rural Spanish village among the hills which anyone can enjoy.

kosmasp Mystery-drama to be exact. This combination will obviously not appeal to everyone. But then again the success of Twilight might suggest otherwise. Though I haven't watched Twilight yet, I think I can tell, that those movies steer in the same vain. The American movie being glossier of course. I can't say though, if "Shiver" is based on any novel or something like that.What I can say, is that the mystery horror works quite well. I was quite impressed by the acting chops the kids showed/displayed. They were cast perfectly. There are quite a few things that did bother me (pacing issues, some plot problems and the usual cliché here and there). Still worth a watch, if there is nothing else to do and you like those kind(s) of movies

laiasuarez A wonderful imaginative film that make me enjoy a lot whit a very good constructed story and a couple of greats actors(From the novel Blanca Suarez to the best actor academy winner Fransec Orella and especially the main character Junio Valverde). The art direction from Pilar Revuelta ( Oscar for "El labyrinth....) is solid and the music from Fernando Velazquez sounds like the classics.The light of JM Civit show us the continuous battle between the light and the darkness (or is in the other way). Isidro Ortiz plays with the mains topics of the genre to give us a complete new version of the genre films for this century where he don't need blood explosions o sound effects to keep us sitting in the chair.