REVIEW: JOSÉ RAMÓN LARRAZ DEADLY MANOR
by Lin Carbajales (*) DEADLY MANOR is a 1990 slasher movie by Spanish director José Ramón Larraz, an interesting artist who also worked as a comic book illustrator and a fashion photographer....
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REVIEW: KIDNAPPED SECUESTRADOS (2010)
By Elena Anele KIDNAPPED (SECUESTRADOS, 2010) is Miguel Ángel Vivas second feature film. He wrote the screenplay together with Javier García Arredondo (LA NOVIA). Filmax produced the film in cooperation with Vaca Films. It...
REVIEW: EL HOMBRE PERSEGUIDO POR UN O.V.N.I. (THE MAN OF GANIMEDES)
By Marc Gras (*) Cult title in Spanish fantastic, EL HOMBRE PERSEGUIDO POR UN O.V.N.I. (THE MAN OF GANIMEDES, in the USA) is one of those films that leaves no one indifferent. Made...
REVIEW: JP SIMON’S THE RIFT / LA GRIETA (1990)
by Lin Carbajales (*) 1989 had to be a good year to go to the movies if you were into underwater horror. The Oscar-winning THE ABYSS came out, as well as...
REVIEW: BALAGUERO’S SLEEP TIGHT AKA MIENTRAS DUERMES
by Beatriz Ayllón (*) Sleep Tight (2011) is a Spanish thriller produced by Filmax, directed by Jaume Balagueró (THE NAMELESS, DARKNESS, FRAGILE, [REC], [REC]2, [REC]4: APOCALYPSE- ) and written by Alberto Marini (SUMMER CAMP)...
BRIEF INTRO TO SPANISH HORROR IN 1960-64/65
Matt Blake author of the book SPANISH CULT CINEMA introduces us to Spanish horror in the first half of the 60s. The early 1960s was a period of massive transformation for Spanish Cinema. Previously,...
REVIEW: AGONIZING IN CRIME AKA AGONIZANDO EN EL CRIMEN
by Enrique Carrillo Ferri (*) Agonizando en el crimen (1967) Was one of the first Spanish movies influenced by Italian giallo, directed by Enrique Eguiluz, director of La Marca del Hombre Lobo (FRANKENSTEIN´S...
REVIEW: TUNO NEGRO aka BLACK SERENADE (2001)
TUNO NEGRO aka BLACK SERENADE is a Spanish slasher directed and written by Pedro L. Barbero and Vicente J. Martín in 2001. Some students from Salamanca university are being killed by a black-masked...
REVIEW: NO MATARAS AKA CROSS THE LINE
NO MATARAS (2019) is David Victori’s first feature film as a director. He is the writer of the Spanish Films Second Origin (2015) and Son of Cain (2013), director and writer of award-winning...
REVIEW: THE CORPSE OF ANNA FRITZ (2015)
by Elena Anele (*) THE CORPSE OF ANNA FRITZ is a Spanish Horror movie from 2015 directed by Hèctor Hernández Vicens (Day of the Dead: Bloodline), also responsible for the screenplay together with...
