Hierro

This icy debut by Spanish commercials director Gabe Ibáñez, from the producers of The Orphanage and Pan's Labyrinth, is atmospheric but too coolly stylish for any really good scares. A vanishing kid thriller, it stars Elena Anaya as a single mum taking her five-year-old son on a trip to El Hierro, the farthest flung of the Canary islands. On the boat she dozes off and wakes up to find him missing – a freak accident or foul play? When a body is found six months later she returns to edge-of-the-world El Hierro, whose creepy, insular inhabitants point to sinister goings-on. Or perhaps, more simply, untethered by grief and guilt, she has become delusional. Either way, Ibáñez fails to ratchet up the suspense and nothing ever quite matches the dread induced by the little boy playing on deck at the start, legs no thicker than the rails.