The Beckoning
- IMDb link: 0829251
- IMDb rating: 5.3 (1,444 votes)
- Genres: Horror, Mystery
- Director: Elio Quiroga
- Cast: Ana Torrent, Francisco Boira, Hector Colome, Maria Alfonsa Rosso and others
- Release date: 6 Aug 2010
- Release year: 2009
- Runtime: 94 minutes
- Country: Spain
- Keywords: postpartum depression, downward spiral, begins with flashback, newsreel footage, hospital closing, sanatorium, patient released, emblem, skull, jesuit priest
Plot:
In 1947, three little girls in a Catholic boarding school claim that they had seen the Virgin Mary and are capable to heal the needy people. Fifty years later, the local Catholic Bishop that lives in the old house dies and the medical doctors Pedro and his wife Francesca, who is depressed and under psychological treatment, rent the isolated house from the Catholic Church to raise their baby Pablo in the countryside. However, the attic and the basement are locked but the Church promises to recover and deliver the rooms later. Francesca is obsessed with the safety of Pablo, having nightmares during the night. She is also haunted by noises and apparitions and is in the edge close to insanity. Meanwhile, the psychiatrist Priest Miguel discharges the patient Blanca that had slept for fifty years from a Catholic institution. When Blanca meets Francesca in the real estate, she gives the name of Priest Miguel to the physician. Francesca visits the priest and discloses a disturbing secret about the old house.