Stars: Macarena Gómez, Mario Mayo, Javier Botet, Christian Thomas, David Pareja, Lucía de la Fuente, Carmen del Rosal, Zorion Eguileor | Written and Directed by Kiko Prada
Sometimes when you watch a film you know it’s right up your street from the get-go and that was certainly the case for Halloween Tales. Opening with credits that look like they jumped out of an 80s Italian horror, with a soundtrack that sounds like a homage to John Carpenter, I was hooked immediately.
Halloween Tales, also known under its original title Historias de Halloween, is a horror anthology from Spain that is obviously influenced by the likes of US productions like Creephow (the film uses comics as a framing device like that King-inspired anthology) and, obviously, The Twilight Zone, but – like many Spanish genre fare, also the work of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador.
The wraparound follows Luis (Christian Thomas), a boy whose mother,...
Sometimes when you watch a film you know it’s right up your street from the get-go and that was certainly the case for Halloween Tales. Opening with credits that look like they jumped out of an 80s Italian horror, with a soundtrack that sounds like a homage to John Carpenter, I was hooked immediately.
Halloween Tales, also known under its original title Historias de Halloween, is a horror anthology from Spain that is obviously influenced by the likes of US productions like Creephow (the film uses comics as a framing device like that King-inspired anthology) and, obviously, The Twilight Zone, but – like many Spanish genre fare, also the work of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador.
The wraparound follows Luis (Christian Thomas), a boy whose mother,...
- 3/4/2025
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Un thriller de acción que se desarrolla a lo largo de un día en un enorme polígono industrial ficticio. © La Dalia Films
Termina el rodaje de “Luger”, un thriller de acción ácido dirigido por Bruno Martín a partir de un guion que ha coescrito junto a Santiago Taboada y que se desarrolla a lo largo de un día en un enorme polígono industrial ficticio llamado “Santos 117”.
“Luger” sigue a Rafa (David Sainz) y Toni (Mario Mayo), dos buscavidas que trabajan para Ángela (Ana Turpin), una abogada de moral flexible que ofrece a sus clientes “soluciones rápidas” al margen de lo legal. Dentro del maletero de uno de estos clientes aparece una misteriosa caja fuerte cuyo contenido, una reliquia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial muy codiciada por gente de los bajos fondos, les situará en el centro de una peligrosa encrucijada.
La película está protagonizada por David Sainz (“Mambo”) y Mario...
Termina el rodaje de “Luger”, un thriller de acción ácido dirigido por Bruno Martín a partir de un guion que ha coescrito junto a Santiago Taboada y que se desarrolla a lo largo de un día en un enorme polígono industrial ficticio llamado “Santos 117”.
“Luger” sigue a Rafa (David Sainz) y Toni (Mario Mayo), dos buscavidas que trabajan para Ángela (Ana Turpin), una abogada de moral flexible que ofrece a sus clientes “soluciones rápidas” al margen de lo legal. Dentro del maletero de uno de estos clientes aparece una misteriosa caja fuerte cuyo contenido, una reliquia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial muy codiciada por gente de los bajos fondos, les situará en el centro de una peligrosa encrucijada.
La película está protagonizada por David Sainz (“Mambo”) y Mario...
- 6/28/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Brazil’s Fantaspoa film festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and the festival is breaking numerous records, presenting an impressive total of 114 feature films, 22 of these as World Premieres, marking the largest number of feature films in Fantaspoa’s long history.
The final selection of feature films for Fantaspoa’s highly-anticipated 20th edition has been exclusively presented to Bloody Disgusting, so read on for everything you need to know!
The festival tells us this week, “With a diverse selection, the feature films screening at Fantaspoa Xx have been divided into seven distinct competitive categories: International, Ibero-American, National, Documentary, Animation, All-Nighter, and Low Budget, Great Films. These categories promise audiences a variety of cinematic experiences, from the fringes of horror and fantasy to the depths of the human imagination.
“In addition to feature films, Fantaspoa will screen 123 short films, totaling 237 participating works, making this edition of the festival the largest in its history.
The final selection of feature films for Fantaspoa’s highly-anticipated 20th edition has been exclusively presented to Bloody Disgusting, so read on for everything you need to know!
The festival tells us this week, “With a diverse selection, the feature films screening at Fantaspoa Xx have been divided into seven distinct competitive categories: International, Ibero-American, National, Documentary, Animation, All-Nighter, and Low Budget, Great Films. These categories promise audiences a variety of cinematic experiences, from the fringes of horror and fantasy to the depths of the human imagination.
“In addition to feature films, Fantaspoa will screen 123 short films, totaling 237 participating works, making this edition of the festival the largest in its history.
- 3/28/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
New Zealand-based sales and distribution company Black Mandala has picked up international rights to Spanish-language genre film and 2023 festival hit “I’ll Crush Y’All” (aka “Os Reviento”).
Portrayed by Mario Mayo, Gabriel, better known as ‘Tarado,’ is a former boxer who lives in a secluded village outside the city with his father and his dog. He could still box, but to avoid what led him to spend a few years in prison, he prefers to lead a quiet life. The death of his father and the shady dealings he was hiding attract a wide range of characters to his home, each with worse intentions than the last: a brother with a troublesome new girlfriend, an angry admirer, mobsters with dark purposes, and thugs looking for a stolen bag of money.
It debuted at the FantasticFest in September and won the audience prize at both FantasticFest and the Sitges genre film festival.
Portrayed by Mario Mayo, Gabriel, better known as ‘Tarado,’ is a former boxer who lives in a secluded village outside the city with his father and his dog. He could still box, but to avoid what led him to spend a few years in prison, he prefers to lead a quiet life. The death of his father and the shady dealings he was hiding attract a wide range of characters to his home, each with worse intentions than the last: a brother with a troublesome new girlfriend, an angry admirer, mobsters with dark purposes, and thugs looking for a stolen bag of money.
It debuted at the FantasticFest in September and won the audience prize at both FantasticFest and the Sitges genre film festival.
- 1/17/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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