The Spanish horror movie came out overseas last year, and made its Netflix debut last month.
Whilst some viewers have been calling it too scary to finish, others have said it’s somewhat overhyped – so what do the reviewers think?
Surprisingly, the feedback is just as divided, and a recent 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes has been dragged right down.
The Times gave only a two-star verdict, saying: “A considerable buzz online suggested that this Spanish horror might arrest the recent run of iffy Netflix movies. Sadly, it doesn’t.
Forbes agreed, calling it “ultimately bland”, saying “outside of a collection of great performances from young actors, there wasn’t all that much else about the film I found terribly compelling”.
There are also some very positive write-ups, with The Film Stage saying: “At the end of the day a horror film is successful if it can make your heart pound out of your chest. And for most of Verónica, Plaza and Navarro do exactly that.”
IGN gave a hefty 8.6/10 score, saying: “Veronica is a skillfully made horror film that seeks to be about more than your average haunted house movie.”
Sight and Sound concurred, including the movie on its list of ten best films from FrightFest 2017.
Chilling, Veronica takes its cues from an apparently true story, about a death in a suburb of Madrid in the early 1990s.
Currently no English dub of the film exists, and it remains to be seen if Hollywood will resist the temptation to remake it.
Veronica is streaming on Netflix now.
