A BELL FROM HELL
A vaguely surreal, darkly comic and deeply shocking exercise in Euro-styled anti-bourgeoisie subversion, the Spanish production A BELL FROM HELL is a one-of-a-kind gem
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
Far from standard horror fare, the 1973 Spanish film SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE is an extremely difficult, uneventful mood piece that requires multiple viewings—in short, an Art Film
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
A rare attempt at genre filmmaking by Spain’s Pedro Almodovar, who provides a visually ravishing exercise in Cronenbergian horror
ARREBATO
The absolute last word on visual addiction, ARREBATO is a fascinating Spanish cult film
ANGUISH
A fairly clever movie theater set splatter film, ANGUISH has some clever touches but suffers from the fact that the film-within-the-film is really lame
THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK
Spanish genre-bending silliness from the seventies about horny folks trapped inside a mansion in the wake of a nuclear war
THE UNINVITED GUEST
Spanish horror from 2004 that offers a fun and oft-perverse twist on the BAD RONALD/HIDER IN THE HOUSE formula, with a man who suspects someone is living in his house but can’t find the person
THE LAST CIRCUS
One of the very best films from Spain’s Alex de la Iglesia, and one of the finest-ever clown movies
LA CABINA
A haunted phone booth may seem like an unlikely object of horror, but that’s precisely the status it attains in this creepy Spanish TV movie, a classic of its type
TIMECRIMES
An unusually clever and nimble but also extremely dark time travel thriller from Spain