Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.
32 Malasana Street is a competently assembled Spanish haunted-house horror set against the backdrop of Franco-era Madrid, but it leans heavily on familiar genre conventions—strange noises, shadowy figures, family members in peril—without meaningfully subverting them. The 1970s period setting and political context add some atmospheric texture, and the production design is solid, but the plot follows a predictable haunted-apartment template with few surprises. The ensemble cast performs adequately, grounding the family drama reasonably well, though characterization remains thin. Cinematography is serviceable and period-appropriate without being visually distinctive. The ending resolves without much impact or originality, feeling abrupt and unsatisfying relative to the dread built up. Overall it sits comfortably in the mid-tier of European genre horror.