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My Take
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. There's a Scorpio-like darkness and precision to his work, an obsessive control of fear as an aesthetic. He proved Spanish horror could be both commercially ferocious and artistically legitimate, and I'm grateful for it.
Overview
Jaume Balagueró Bernat (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈʒawmə bələɣəˈɾo bəɾˈnat]; born 2 November 1968) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter known for his horror films, most notably the acclaimed REC series.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Monkey
- Origin
- Lleida, Province of Lleida, Spain
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Barcelona
Awards & achievements
- 2012 Gaudí Award for Best Director
- 2007 Sitges Film Festival Best Director award
- 2011 Time Machine Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.