Sister Death

Sister Death (Hermana Muerte, 2023) is a Spanish horror film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Paco Plaza — best known for the [REC] franchise — strips back the genre to something far quieter and slower-burning: a period ghost story set in the bleak Spain of 1949.

Novice Narcisa arrives at a former convent now used as a girls' school, hired as a teacher. The building carries the weight of the Civil War in its very walls — sealed rooms, watchful nuns, a silence that feels earned rather than peaceful. Strange visions begin to creep into Narcisa's days; Aria Bedmar plays her not as someone who screams, but as someone trying hard to hold it together, which is more unsettling by far.

The film functions as a prequel to Plaza's Verónica, though it stands entirely on its own. Stream Sister Death (2023) online on iFILM.