ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses films that illustrated a change in Spanish production in the mid-1990s and then compare them with recent productions. The internationally acclaimed auteur's films of the 1980s linked, in one way or another, to the Movida, were followed by authors playing with codes. In the mid-1990s, new filmmakers created new styles, where the personal touch was mixed with codes originating from B-genres. The filmmakers and their sounds designers provide people with an interesting mise en abyme. When those sounds are simply natural elements, like a human sigh of pleasure, they help to understand life. New technologies in Spanish films seemed to be dangerous in 1990s; this was mainly due to the subjective interpretation of the sound made by a character. Internal subjective sound explains the harrowing sounds. Digital sound effects, made with complex sound-mixing techniques, become the frightening elements since they come out of machines.
