Director: Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez
Grief doesn't stay contained to the mind in The Elderly — inside one aging apartment building, it starts rearranging the walls themselves.
What is The Elderly about?
After his wife takes her own life, an octogenarian named Manuel begins slipping into dementia, and his son's family moves in to look after him. What they find isn't only confusion and forgetfulness: small, unsettling changes start appearing in the apartment, as if something has woken up alongside Manuel's unraveling mind. The film builds slowly, treating the building itself as complicit in whatever is happening, and letting the family's growing dread stand in for answers it withholds until the final stretch.
Cast & crew
Zorion Eguileor anchors Manuel's confusion and quiet menace without ever tipping into caricature, while Irene Anula and Paula Gallego play the daughter-in-law and granddaughter who notice the apartment changing before anyone believes them. Gustavo Salmerón, Josele Román, and Juan Acedo fill out a small, tightly wound ensemble that keeps the scale intimate rather than spectacular.
Context & significance
Co-directors Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez set their haunting inside cramped, sun-bleached rooms rather than sprawling sets, using close quarters and creaking domestic detail to build dread instead of jump-scare choreography. The film sits in a Spanish tradition of family-centered horror, where duty, guilt, and the fear of watching a parent become a stranger matter as much as anything supernatural pushing through the plaster.
Where & how to watch
The Elderly is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and subtitles, so the film's slow-burn dread carries across without losing subtlety in translation. Watching requires only a free K-Time account, and the page itself — synopsis, cast, and details — is open to read for anyone browsing in Farsi first.