REVIEW: JAUME BALAGUERO’S VENUS (2022)
by Elena Romea (*) VENUS is the latest feature film by Jaume Balagueró (REC, SLEEP TIGHT). It opened the 55th edition of the Sitges Film Festival and it was screened at the Toronto Film...
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REVIEW: EL JUEGO DEL DIABLO (1975) AKA DEVIL’S EXORCIST
By Elena Romea El Juego del Diablo aka Devil’s Exorcist is an unknown film from 1975 directed by Jorge Darnell, also responsible for the horror comedy Tiempos Duros para Drácula. In the movie, we...
REVIEW: LA MADRE MUERTA BY JUANMA BAJO ULLOA
By Elena Romea(*) LA MADRE MUERTA (1993) is Juanma Bajo Ullo second feature film. This was written together with his brother Eduardo as it happened in his first movie ALAS DE MARIPOSA (1991)....
REVIEW: MALNAZIDOS (2020) AKA VALLEY OF THE DEAD.
By Elena Romea(*) MALNAZIDOS (2020) is directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera and Alberto de Toro on a screenplay by Jaime Marqués and Cristian Conti. It is based on Manuel Martín Ferreras’s novel Noche de...
REVIEW: CARLOS AURED’S EL ENIGMA DEL YATE
By Elena Romea(*) EL ENIGMA DEL YATE is a film from 1983 directed by Carlos Aured (HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB). It was written by Luis Murillo, the man behind some destape...
REVIEW: VENECIAFRENIA (2021)
By Elena Romea(*) VENECIAFRENIA (2021) is the latest film by Alex de la Iglesia (THE DAY OF THE BEAST, COMMON WEALTH) and it is the first film by The Fear Collection label,...
TV SHOW REVIEW: STORIES TO KEEP YOU AWAKE (2021)
by Beatriz Ayllón (*) HISTORIAS PARA NO DORMIR was a Spanish production between 1966 and 1982 made of independent thriller and horror stories directed by Narciso Ibañez Serrador, one of the most...
REVIEW: PACO PLAZA’S LA ABUELA AKA THE GRADNMOTHER (2021)
by Beatriz Ayllón (*) THE GRANDMOTHER is a Spanish horror film released on January 28, 2022, starring Almudena Amor, nominated for the Goya for Best New Actress by EL BUEN PATRÓN (2021), by Fernando...
REVIEW: MORBUS AKA BON PROFIT
By Marc Gras (*) A couple of years before RE-ANIMATOR, the Catalan director Ignasi P. Ferré shot this dark film in which a pharmacist — in the purest Herbert West style— creates a...
PREVIEW AND Q&A: MI ADORADO MONSTER DIRECTOR VÍCTOR MATELLANO
By Elena Romea(*) MI ADORADO MONSTER is a new doc directed by Víctor Matellano (VAMPYRES, WAX) and co-written by Manuel Tallafé —actor in The Day of the Beast, Witching and Bitching, and many others....
