Rodrigo Cortès

The Profile

Rodrigo Cortés is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and editor best known for the thriller Buried (2010). He later directed Red Lights (2012) and the supernatural thriller Down a Dark Hall (2018).

Buried (2010), starring Ryan Reynolds, is a single-location thriller set entirely inside a coffin and premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Three DeBaser reviews lock onto Rodrigo Cortés’s Buried: its coffin-tight staging, relentless pacing, and a finale that splits the room. Praise lands on direction and tension; gripes fixate on budget claims, plausibility, and Italian dubbing. References to Hitchcock and Sundance pepper the discussion. Overall verdict: technically sharp, emotionally divisive.