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I don't really know which way to go with "Kidnapped," the ultra-formalist, and utterly riveting, new horror movie from first-time Spanish director Miguel Ángel Vivas. For some genre buffs and cinephiles, "Kidnapped" is likely to feel like the distillation of certain themes in horror-thriller filmmaking, including the European takeover of a quintessentially American form and a return to austerity and economy instead of grotesque sloppiness. Composed in just 12 unnerving hand-held traveling shots (they're at eye-level but not point-of-view, and not excessively wobbly), this taut home-invasion drama has an obvious if complicated debt to Michael Haneke's legendary "Funny Games," but also pulls in various other influences, ranging from David Fincher's "Panic Room" to the split-screen technique of Richard Fleischer's 1968 "Boston Strangler."