Children and big, mystery-stuffed houses are hardly unusual ingredients in thrillers; they're about as common as bumps in the night. But their pairing in Marrowbone, the first feature directed by Sergio G. Sanchez, strikes a familiar and deeply satisfying chord.
Set in 1969 America but filmed in Spain, it from the start recalls several other pictures made in Spain by Spanish or Mexican filmmakers: not just The Orphanage, which Sanchez wrote for director J.A. Bayona, but Alejandro Amenabar's The Others and the Spanish Civil War-set ghost stories of Guillermo del Toro. (Tellingly, Marrowbone's Alvaro Augustin has served as a producer on films by all three of these directors.) No moviegoer who loves more than one of those films should be disappointed by this one, a sumptuous tale of various sorts of haunting set in what should be a seaside Eden.
Scary enough to please most genre buffs, it would also play well in art houses: If you were to go through and remove every hint of ghosts, you'd still have a drama well worth seeing.
Four siblings from England are brought to an unnamed Northeastern American town by their mother, who grew up here. They move into her childhood home and rechristen themselves with her maiden name, Marrowbone, which is also the estate's name. "Our story begins here," she declares, drawing a line in the accumulated dust; but all the talk of fresh starts is clouded by hints of someone back home who very much wants to find them.
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