Spanish language film NO-DO here repackaged as THE HAUNTING wants to be in the same league as the Del Toro produced The Orphanage and other Spanish spookshows but where we are used to a slow haunting build and rounded characters to carry those sort of films NO-DO is ham fisted and clunky jamming as many jarring juxtapositions as it can and over using CGI ghost effects rendering the whole thing a dull and obvious affair. When the film gets to breathe it starts to find its feet but no sooner are we settled in than we find ourselves cutting to, or here more appropriately dissolving to, another scene or morphing into poorly recreated "stock footage"
A sad Spanish haunting that leaves me floppy.
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