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We interview filmmaker Paco Plaza without filters in Valladolid after he received the Honorary PUFA. We review his career, his ghosts, and the hidden history of his cinema.
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«Ben Affleck directs a claustrophobic thriller where money cannot buy freedom, only the absolute certainty of failure.»
Jesse McKeown delivers a tale of geographic isolation disguised as a sea monster that barely manages to stay afloat in Under the Surface.
Odin Lagbert dissects Takashi Miike's Audition: a surgical treatise where horror doesn't reside in the needle, but in male complicity.
Diego Velasco delivers in The Whistler an exercise where resource scarcity lays bare the seams of the modern thriller.
Discover the release of Beware Boiúna in theaters and streaming.
Discover the release of Street Fighter in theaters and streaming.
An acidic critique of Lee Chang-dong's masterpiece, where suspense is brewed amidst coffee smoke and uncomfortable silences.
*"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.*
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A psychological horror film that will make you question reality—if you can stomach the stench of its decay.
A scathing review of the movie Janur Ireng: Sewu Dino the Prequel, with irony and dark humor
The sixth day of the **Valladolid International Fantasy and Horror Film Festival (PUFA)** offered a mix of premieres and screenings, including *Lenore*, *The Waiting Man*, and *Janur Ireng*, exploring psychological horror, black magic, and artificial intelligence.
The fifth day of PUFA 2026 was defined by mind-bending films, existential labyrinths, and the wildest black comedy, featuring titles like *Yesterday Island*, *The Red Mask*, *IAI*, and *Buffet Libre*.
Claqueta Ácida’s evisceration of *The Red Mask*: A film that throbs with terror
Sam Voutas gifts us a desert-island getaway engineered by a Netflix algorithm: predictable, dull, and starring actors plucked straight from a TikTok casting call.
A Japanese supernatural drama that reeks of cheap incense and telenovela tears. A masterpiece of intimate terror or a kimono-clad exercise in self-indulgence?
Kyle Misak gifts us a 'hood thriller' with more dandruff than suspense and more clichés than hair in a brush. Dr. Cynicism dissects this disaster with a barber’s scalpel.
Zoe Berriatúa serves up a grotesque buffet of social gore and pitch-black humor in this all-you-can-eat orgy of bodies, guilt, and egg fried rice. Is it too raw, or just perfectly decomposed?
Bruce Wemple gifts us 85 minutes of amateur horror with actors lost in a script that reeks of 90s mothballs. Claqueta Ácida dissects this cinematic corpse.
