Venus When Lovecraft Moves into a Hive Apartment Block in Villaverde Sur
«Jaume Balagueró transplants cosmic horror to the outskirts of Madrid in an exercise where ancestral monstrosity brushes shoulders with utter tackiness.»
Rigorous analysis with a heavy dose of sarcasm. Built for film lovers who don't swallow Hollywood's marketing talk.
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We interview filmmaker Miguel Ángel Refoyo on the occasion of the long-awaited return of his blog 'A World from the Abyss'. Auteur cinema, resistance, and craft.
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