Born on November 3, 1968 in Lleida. Jaume Balagueró specialises in the horror genre, more specifically "terror" and "psychological". He graduated in Communication Sciences and studied film at the Centre d'Estudis cinematogràfics de Catalunya ( CECC ). He then worked as a journalist and radio host ("Foam of the days" on Radio Hospitalet) before tackling his first film, the short film "Alice", with which he triumphed in the Festival of Sitges. In his second short consolidate a style that would endure in his following works, and would attract the interest of producers.

In 1999 he directed his first feature film, The Nameless, an adaptation of the novel by Ramsey Campbell , with whom he won the Méliès d'Or for best European fantastic film that year, assuming its international launch.

In 2002 he directed with Paco Plaza OT: The Movie , a documentary on the TV so many passions aroused this year, which was tracking the fortunes of the group of singers. His next two films, for which could have had bigger budgets and the involvement of leading players in Europe and the United States, underpinning a work acclaimed throughout the world for fans of the genre, consistent and highly personal, and not revisiting recurring themes that has managed to make his own, but by the use of certain means of expression (anti-gas masks, the old transistor radios, old family portraits, and the famous " Balagueró effect , a sort of effect Strobe used in times "claims" that manages to recreate the atmosphere truly disturbing without necessarily resorting to gruesomeness too explicit.

Filmography

• 2012 REC - Revelation
• 2010 Flatmate
• 2010 Fear (short film)
• 2009 [REC] 2
• 2007 [REC]
• 2006 To move in.
• 2005 Fragile
• 2002 Darkness
• 2002 OT - The Movie
• 1999 The Nameless
• 1995 Days without power
• 1994 Alicia