Don't Listen (Original title: Voces) is a Spanish Drama Horror Movie by Ángel Gómez Hernández.
Daniel (Rodolfo Sancho) is a house renovator who's bought to a new home to fix up, and has moved his family, which includes his wife Sara (Belén Fabra) and son Eric (Lucas Blas) to live there while he fixes the place up. However, Eric begins hearing voices in the house and drawing unsettling pictures. A psychologist chalks it up to a lack of stability to his family constantly moving...
And then Eric is found drowned in the house's dirty pool.
Daniel recalls a scientist named Germán (Ramón Barea) who's published a book about hearing voices from the afterlife. He decides to hire him when he hears a call for help from his son in a recording. After some convincing, Germán decides to look into this situation, bringing his daughter Ruth (Ana Fernández) along to help him out.
The movie was released on July 24th, 2020.
Don't Listen contains examples of:
- Driven to Suicide: Daniel blows his own head off with a shotgun after discovering his dead son's last picture, and realizing he killed him while under the ghost's power.
- Electromagnetic Ghosts: The psychologist's car radio starts acting strange before the witch's ghost possesses her and kills her. Sara tells Daniel there was a lot of noise on the message he sent her. He listens to it again... and hears his dead son's voice calling out for help.
- Happier Home Movie: Daniel is seen watching home videos of him and his family moving into the house after his son's funeral (as in, he does this after said funeral).
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The psychologist in the movie's prologue is killed by having a tree branch driven through her face in a car crash.
- Kill It with Fire: Germán states that this is how witches were killed in the days of the Spanish Inquisition. Hence, they need to burn the witch's corpse to get her to stop haunting the house.
- Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Early in the movie, Eric can be seen drawing rather unsettling pictures, such as a tree branch dripping with blood right as the psychologist has a tree branch driven through her face in a car crash. The last one was of his possessed father drowning him.
- One-Word Title: Voces, the original Spanish title of the movie.
- Orifice Evacuation: When the witch is done with her victim, the fly that entered that person's ear comes out of the other ear.
- Orifice Invasion: Whenever the witch's ghost possesses someone, a fly crawls into that person's ear.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Eric is found floating in the pool in the middle of the movie, and the following shots of the funeral, and his lack of presence afterwards, confirm that he's indeed dead.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Peoples' eyes turn red at various points in the movie. This is to indicate they're under the witch ghost's power.
- The Reveal: After visiting someone, Ruth reveals that the house is a former courthouse where, during The Spanish Inquisition, multiple women were executed as witches.
- Safe Under Blankets: When the voices in the house start scaring Eric in the middle of the night, he hides under his bedsheets.
- Whispering Ghosts: Peppered throughout the movie are instances of ghostly whispering.
