From the New French Extremity to the most radical arthouse cinema: special correspondents, daily chronicles, awards, and acid reviews at the most prestigious certamens.
The certamens where the Claqueta Ácida team sharpens its fangs
Pucela Fantástica
Valladolid's Fantasy and Horror Film Festival. Full coverage, official program, venues, bookings and an acid jury.
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Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya
Europe's great temple of fantasy, body horror and the New Extremity. Sharp dispatches from the Auditori at the Melià.
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Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
Auteur cinema, avant-garde and peripheral film cultures. Merciless autopsies in search of the Golden Spike.
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Festival de Cannes
The Croisette through a filter of cynicism: awards, forced ovations, red-carpet scandals and high-impact cinema.
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia (SSIFF)
The Kursaal as a tribunal for Ibero-American and international cinema. Golden Shell and live acidity readings.
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Ruthless critiques of films screened in the independent circuit
★ 8.2 An acidic critique of Lee Chang-dong's masterpiece, where suspense is brewed amidst coffee smoke and uncomfortable silences.
★ 0.0 *"Bad Haircut" takes home Best Film at the third edition of the Valladolid International Fantastic and Horror Film Festival, while the jury and critics remain deeply divided over the film’s quality.*
★ 5.0 Paco Campano serves us a cocktail of cheap psychedelia and rusted robotics in 'Quantum Rave.' Art or cosmic vomit? Claqueta Ácida decides with boxing gloves on.
★ 7.0 Dina Silva gives everything as a Los Angeles singer-songwriter who snaps against the industry that humiliates her for her body. A furious indie slasher with more personality than development.
★ 7.0 A scathing critique of *Horror and Love*, the film that blends terror and romance like a drunk chef mixing bleach and tequila—equally toxic, equally unforgettable.
★ 4.0 Rhys Frake-Waterfield turns the childhood classic into a gore-soaked nightmare starring Robert Englund and a Pinocchio that’d make Chucky weep. Art? No. Fun? Even less.
★ 0.0 A recap of the festival’s second day, featuring *Horror and Love*, *Quantum Rave*, *Pinocchio Unstrung*, and *Frankie, Maniac Woman*—a night packed with terror, madness, and enough emotional whiplash to make a rollercoaster jealous.
★ 4.8 Chris Marrs Piliero attempts to exorcise the demons of tech addiction with a script that reads like it was spat out by a TikTok algorithm. The result? A visual hangover more painful than a thousand fake likes.
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