ORIGINAL TITLEEl día de la bestia
GENREBlack comedy · Horror · Fantasy
ABOUT THIS FILM
RUNTIME
104 min
Vibe
satanic-comedyMadridapocalypticheavy-metalgrotesquesatiricalurbanchaoticCatholicChristmas-Eve
A priest believes the Antichrist will be born in Madrid on Christmas Day 1995 and deliberately commits sins while recruiting a metal fan and television occultist to help him find Satan. Apocalyptic christmas eve satire combining catholic imagery, heavy metal, media spectacle and madrid consumer culture.
MOVIE NIGHT RANK
#57 of 100
Watch for
- Madrid's commercial Christmas spaces
- Álex Angulo's deadpan priest
- Santiago Segura's José María
- satire of television occultism
Production notes
Spain's ICAA identifies de la Iglesia as director/co-writer with Jorge Guerricaechevarría, 104 minutes, a Spanish-Italian coproduction, and the 25 December prophecy.
Trivia
- original title El día de la bestia
- de la Iglesia co-wrote with Guerricaechevarría
- ICAA lists 104 minutes
- Spanish-Italian coproduction
- prophecy centers on 25 December 1995
Legacy
breakthrough for de la Iglesia and a landmark of 1990s Spanish genre cinema; a major European anti-sentimental Christmas film.