FRIGHTFEST LONDON

EL INSTINTO/INSTINCT

UK PREMIERE - Discovery SCREEN Three

Director: ​Juan Albarracín. Stars: Javier Pereira, Fernando Cayo, Eva Llorach, Rocío Bernal. Spain 2024. 92 mins. 

Abel is a brilliant architect who suffers from agoraphobia. Living in mountain isolation for three years, he’s unable to set foot outside. For personal reasons and a very important professional opportunity, he must seek an immediate solution for his illness. When therapy doesn’t work, he grabs the chance to work with prestigious dog trainer José, convinced his canine techniques can correct his problem. But when José starts revealing psychotic behaviour, what at first seemed like a good solution gradually turns into torture from which Abel cannot escape… for the trainer is trying to turn him into his hunter animal.