2025 · drama · horror · fantasy
Gaua (The Night)
Directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo1h 32m2025
Spain, Basque Country, 17th century. At night and through the mountains, Kattalin escapes from her farmhouse and, while wandering through the deep forest, she senses a presence that stalks her.
Our read: Gaua (The Night) (2025) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · horror · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
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