In a 2012 Spanish thriller “The End (“Fin”) a group of old friends are re-united in an isolated mountain cottage for the weekend. While they are having a good time, talking with old friends for the first time in many years, there is a certain thing they would rather not talk about, something related to one Ángel (Eugenio Mira), who is not here now.In the meanwhile, they realize that something strange is going on. All the electronic machines are dead and the communication with the world outside is impossible. Animals start acting weird. What happened to the world or the entire humanity while they are staying in the cabin?Those who are looking for a sci-fi (or apocalyptic / psychological) thriller would be disappointed with “The End,” a very ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to genre-bend. Director Jorge Torregrossa succeeds in creating an unnerving atmosphere, while viewers anticipate something logical happening. Unfortunately, they will not get one. Of course, you don’t have to explain everything in your film – you don’t have to tell me why birds start attacking people in “The Birds” – but “The End” raises too many questions without making the film interesting.To me, “The End” is closer to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Pulse” than to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic – both telling the stories of the world that disintegrates, but with much better narrative skills. “The End” has a few thrilling sequences (all involving animals), but as a whole, the film only frustrates, not fascinates, us.