60 minute in the beautiful christina galbo try to escape the isolated boarding school she bring to at the beginning of the movie . be she run from some kind of fate too horrible to contemplate and a monster and black gloved killer and or supernatural evil . no and she run from a bunch of bully . for the other 40 minute that follow and various figure walk around the school in the dark hold candelabra and look alarm or distraught and which doesn not say much in itself perhaps because great movie have be make about just that but if youre go to have character walk around corridor and staircase you good be alain resnais or you good know how to light that staircase in bright apple red and purple like mario bava . we know a killer stalk the perimeter of the school but his body count be pitiful and sparse and in the absence of the visceral horror one expect to find in the giallo and we get no sense of sinister mystery or unspeakable secret fester behind a facade of order and piety and rightness which be the kind of movie la residencia want to be but doesn not quite know how to do it . we know something be off because girl be report miss but we never get the foreboding mysterious atmosphere that say something be seriously f cking wrong here and man . when serrador try to comment on the sexual repression of the female student and he do so with quick cut hysteric and detail closeup of eye and part lip while high pitch this be shock music blare in the background . none of the aetherial beauty and longing of picnic at hang rock to be find here . it all a bit clumsy and aimless and with no real sense of urgency or direction . a number of people be present a suspect but there little reason to care for the identity of a killer that go unnoticed by the character inside the movie . i like the first kill and the image of a knife hit target superimpose over the anguished face of the victim a a lullaby chime in the background and but the rest be too inconsequential for my taste . i have to say serrador do much well with the kill child and paranoia du soleil of who can kill a child .