Le Territoire des ombres : Le secret des Valdemar

An interesting Spanish horror that manages to build a quite good atmosphere and can captivate you, not with unnecessary jump scares, but precisely because of how the overall story is conceived. Towards the end, it becomes a little overloaded and uncertain, but I am quite curious about the continuation and it can be at least as well done as this first film. (07/07/2015)

The Valdemar Legacy: On the one hand we have the TV-ness, the weaker visual effects and the strangely unfinished story from the present day. On the other hand, however, a very good atmosphere (a combination of great cinematography and music), a gripping story set in the past, which resembles Branagh's Frankenstein in its tragic conception, plus the supporting characters Aleister Crowley (!) and Bram Stoker (!!!), and of course "inspired by H. P. Lovecraft". According to the previews, there are much, much bigger things to come in the second part. Three and a half. (09/05/2011)

In the first thirty minutes the film tells a story set in the present (and it got me interested with a very decent atmosphere), but then it jumps to the past and spends the rest of the time laying down a mythology for the second part, without delivering any outcome for that beginning. I guess we’ll have to wait. The Valdemar Legacy at times feels very cheap (almost like made for TV) and despite the very good atmosphere of some scenes (the beginning and the climax), it was a big disappointment. I will still watch the second part, though with lower expectations. (19/06/2010)