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Trick or Treats (1982)
80's horror movies are the best, but unfortunately this is not one of them. Most of the time I felt like I was watching a comedy – the opening chase of Malcolm by the wardens of the asylum was like something out of a slapstick movie. Just when Linda thinks she can make cheap money babysitting a kid, but she finds out pretty soon that the brat is a nightmare. What follows is a bit of a variation on the future hit Home Alone. Little Christopher is an amateur magician, and when you see Malcolm again, you'll understand what's going on with the brat. There are a couple of murders and a pretty intense finale, but otherwise not much. There’s nudity but behind plastic and the gore is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps only for collectors today, otherwise not even recommendable. The only small insignificant plus I saw was the awesome quality of the restored print, but that's not enough.
Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin (2024)
An average entry into the zombie horror genre, which has recently moved into cheap B-movies. This one was obviously a bit more expensive, but it doesn't bring anything new to the table in terms of story. It’s a character drama set at the beginning of the apocalypse, but it is slow to get going and it's only in the last quarter that we can talk about action and escalating tension. The biggest problem is Manel, who is really hard to identify with. An unlikeable moron who hasn't seen any zombie movies, so he runs right up to them at the first encounter and says he's going to take them down. If it weren't for a helpful crutch in the script, he would have been dispatched right at the start. He's trying very hard to help people, but he's leading death to them instead. The zombies have been running really fast lately (which is constantly beyond me), but here they are perhaps jet-powered. Naturally we don’t get to see any juicy gore, even the simple visual effects look very subtle. Why the Ukrainians are the bad guys somehow escapes me, but so be it, it's in the script. Anyone who has seen a movie or two will guess the ending fairly early on. Unfortunately, Spain hasn't been an automatic guarantee of quality for quite a while now, and that's true this time too; if it weren't for the action-packed finale, I'd it even lower. There’s no need for a sequel
No Voltees (2024)
For the third time, Alejandro Hidalgo did not disappoint me. A despot father tyrannizing his children, a witch mother and a madman, twins Aurora and Martín suffering night (and day) terrors even in adulthood. The psychological drama of a family that hasn't worked from the start takes a macabre turn when the siblings go to the family home to figure out how to provide for their demented mother. It starts as a troubling story with the occasional nightmare scene, but it tightens up towards the end. Emerging from ancient traumas is not easy, hence the twins must face escalating panic attacks. Spoiler: the symbolic destruction of the mobile phone, which connects but also enslaves, represents the final throwing off of the shackles preventing free choice.