A Real Friend (2006)

Review: A Real Friend (2006)

Director: Enrique Urbizu

Cast: Goya Toledo, Nerea Inchausti, Josep Maria Pou, Aitor Mazo, Eduard Farelo,

Goya Toledo
Goya Toledo
Nerea Inchausti
Nerea Inchausti
Josep Maria Pou
Josep Maria Pou
Aitor Mazo
Aitor Mazo
Eduard Farelo
Eduard Farelo

Plot: Estrella, an intelligent teen student, spends most of her time alone at school or home, enjoying horror books and movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and a vampire.

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Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Spanish horror, Gothic and modern

Severin’s third Danza Macabra box set contains four Spanish movies from the early 1970s; it’s a mixed bag, from the arty anthology Cake of Blood (1971) and the poorly realized Necrophagous (Miguel Madrid, 1971) to John Gilling’s […]

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