ABSTRACT
This chapter delves into the pivotal influence of Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others and Guillermo del Toro’s arrival in Spain. It scrutinizes the production of Amenábar’s and del Toro’s films, subsequently tracing the significant role of Spanish broadcasters such as Canal+, Telecinco and Antena 3, in shaping a series of industrial patterns that came to dominate the genre in the following decades. Then it focuses on Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage. The second part of the chapter shifts its attention to the consequences of their success – that is, a variety of horror (co-)productions created for international markets, highlighting the significance of Filmax, a film producer and distributor.
