“Veronica” is a fairly conventional supernatural horror film, which nevertheless stands out thanks to the stylised direction of co-writer Paco Plaza, and the solid main performance of the young Sandra Escacena, in her film debut. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 7, 2025

When the camera and sound design are doing the heavy lifting, Veronica soars, but Plaza’s lack of restraint brings it crashing down, time and again.

| Jul 3, 2024

With a driving, but unrushed pace, the narrative pulls us into the terrors, complete with shadowy things that go bump in the night and menacing forces that are nothing short of evil.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 28, 2023

Even with its layers of predictability, Verónica will keep you at the edge of your seat until its final moments.

| Sep 24, 2022

I felt like the sinister vibe in this film really was watered down again.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 16, 2021

Based on eye-witness accounts (and of course a degree of speculation), Veronica is the story of what went wrong for a lonely teenager after she tried to contact her deceased father via a Ouija board.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2021

[Paco] Plaza's tale of teen possession is powerfully scary.

| Oct 9, 2019

A personal and genuinely Spanish film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2019

It's not "the scariest film of all time," but Verónica is still plenty scary, and it features some rather well-executed haunted house imagery that will certainly get under your skin.

| Original Score: 8.6/10 | Oct 1, 2019

Paco plaza has the soul of an auteur that disembarks on creating the most pure and visceral horror. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Oct 1, 2019

Veronica brings strong scares to this film based on a true story.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

Veronica may not reinvent the possession/exorcism subgenre, but it is nonetheless a solid entry.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 21, 2018

A movie that puts hairs on end. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 11, 2018

An authentic revelation. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 11, 2018

Brooding with class and style, it's a cut above most of the movies it shares a story with, but certainly not an all-timer like [Rec].

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 11, 2018

There's nothing in it that will surprise horror movie aficionados.

| Jun 11, 2018

Scary Spanish horror film with demonic imagery, violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2018

Despite a tendency to overdo it when it comes to the scares themselves, Paco Plaza's Veronica contains enough focus on character and symbolism to be an effective possession horror.

| Apr 17, 2018

It's not a masterpiece.... but it is entertaining... [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 27, 2018

A considerable buzz online suggested that this Spanish horror might arrest the recent run of iffy Netflix movies. Sadly, it doesn't.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2018