Painless2012

🏆 2 wins & 9 nominations total

Horror Vault's take

Set against the long shadow of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's regime, Painless follows a neurosurgeon whose desperate search for answers about his own failing health leads him to uncover buried horrors from the past. The film weaves between timelines, connecting wartime atrocities and clandestine experiments on children to one man's deeply personal crisis. Dark and deliberately paced, it draws its dread from history as much as from the supernatural. What begins as a medical mystery gradually reveals itself as something far more disturbing.

Content: Depictions Of Abuse Of Children, Human Experimentation, Political Violence, Dark Themes Surrounding Terminal Illness