Night of the Werewolf
Waldemar Daninsky. The name is a trochaic delight, a complete poem—I could walk around all day saying those words, which roll off the tongue like “Candyman.” Waldemar Daninsky, the lycanthropic Polish nobleman, was the creation of Spanish screenwriter Paul Naschy (also credited as Jacinto Molina, his real name), who portrayed him in 12 films…
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
While it predates the entire Italian zombie phenomenon, the Spanish/Italian co-production The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue feels like an exemplar of Italian horror films of the 1970s…
[REC]
Seen from the vantage point of the present, any film with the barest hint of a quarantine narrative can only remind its audience of the COVID pandemic.
The Day of the Beast
A rare case of a film striking the perfect horror-comedy balance, The Day of the Beast is also an extremely rare example of a buddy flick found within genre cinema.
Arrebato (Rapture)
Birthed during the cultural thaw that immediately followed the end of the Franco dictatorship, Basque writer-director and designer Iván Zulueta’s 1979 feature Arrebato (Rapture) erupts like a massive discharge of so much repressed anxiety and desire.