Jaume Balagueró

Jaume Balagueró is, for my money, one of the sharpest horror minds Spain has produced. The REC franchise reinvented found-footage dread by trapping us in a single apartment building, and that claustrophobic terror still gets under my skin years later. What I respect is that he treats genre filmmaking as serious craft rather than disposable shock, an attitude validated by his 2012 Gaudí Award and his recognition at Sitges. He proved Spanish horror could be both commercially ferocious and artistically legitimate, and I'm grateful for it.

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Name (English)

Jaume Balagueró

Name (Japanese)

ジャウマ・バラゲロ

Reading

じゃうま・ばらげろ

Born

November 2, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Lleida, Province of Lleida, Spain

Occupation

film director / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

University

University of Barcelona

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Gaudí Award for Best Director
• 2007 Sitges Film Festival Best Director award
• 2011 Time Machine Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaume%20Balaguer%C3%B3
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A6%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471000

Tags

• Province of Lleida
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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