Netflix and horror don’t go hand-in-hand the same way the streaming service’s regular forays into crime thrillers, murder mysteries, and tales of eroticism do, even if there are a couple of notable outliers that deserve to be lauded. Tin & Tina might be a big hit right off the bat, but it hasn’t exactly been rapturously received by critics or subscribers.
The Spanish-language supernatural chiller currently holds a disastrous 17 percent audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while IMDb users have at least been more forgiving in deciding that director Rubin Stein’s biblical terror deserves a 4.9/10 score, which is still pretty terrible.
However, that hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm on behalf of Netflix’s customer base from checking it out at the earliest available opportunity, with FlixPatrol revealing Tin & Tina to have debuted as one of the biggest hits on the entire platform, where it can be found as the seventh most-watched movie on a global scale.
The narrative takes its cues and draws inspiration from the classic chamber pieces of days gone by, with a married couple struggling to have children of their own adopting the titular twins, albino kids with a severely Catholic upbringing that’s found then interpreting every word in the Bible as literal gospel.
Needless to say, horror doesn’t exactly have a reputation for making youngsters with troubled backgrounds happy-go-lucky rays of sunshine, with the 1980-set film running through all the expected beats on its way to a conclusion that’s about as lackluster as everything else to have unfolded up to that point.