WATCHobscureThe Coffee Table
2022 · Spain · 91m
A Spanish couple buy a hideous coffee table, and then the worst thing imaginable happens in the first act.
23 films
Spanish horror films
23 horror films with Spain as a country of origin are catalogued in the ledger, from 1970 to 2022. The busiest decades are 1970s (6), 2000s (6) and 1980s (5). The most common subgenres here are psychological (5), zombie (5), extreme / transgressive (4) and gothic (4). The best-documented entries are The Others (2001), The Skin I Live In (2011) and The Orphanage (2007). Of these, 7 were banned, refused or seized somewhere.
The films
WATCHobscureCannibal Terror
WATCHcultCannibal Terror
1980 · France/Spain · 89m
Cannibals who look like they were recruited outside the catering truck. Almost impressively bad.
WATCHcultThe Werewolf and the Yeti
1975 · Spain · 94m
Paul Naschy in the Himalayas. On the list almost certainly because somebody read the title and stopped.
WATCHcultDevil Hunter
1980 · Spain/France · 80m
Franco at his most indifferent. Ninety minutes of jungle and a monster with bulging eyes.
WATCHcultCannibal Apocalypse
1980 · Italy/Spain · 92m
Vietnam veterans come home with a bite that spreads. A better idea than the film delivers.
WATCHcultLisa and the Devil
1973 · Germany/Italy · 95m
Bava given complete freedom, and the film is a dream nobody can escape, including the producer.
WATCHcultPieces
1982 · Spain · 90m
A chainsaw killer on a Boston campus, made by Spaniards, and it is gloriously incoherent.
WATCHcultThe Cannibal Man
1972 · Spain · 98m
Almost no cannibalism. A slaughterhouse worker, a body count and Franco-era Spanish class rage.
WATCHcultZombie Creeping Flesh
1980 · Spain/Italy · 89m
Bruno Mattei splicing stock documentary footage into a zombie film and hoping nobody notices.
WATCHcultHatchet for the Honeymoon
1970 · Italy/Spain · 93m
Bava's first-person portrait of a killer who murders brides to recover a childhood memory. Genuinely strange.
WATCHcultPiggy
2022 · Spain/France · 100m
Spanish, a bullied teenager, and a moral problem she is left holding alone.
WATCHcultWho Can Kill a Child?
1976 · Spain · 100m
Opens with eight minutes of real famine footage, then asks its title question literally.
WATCHknownThe Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
1974 · Spain/Italy · 92m
Zombies caused by an agricultural radiation device, shot in the Lake District. Much better than it sounds.
WATCHknownVerónica
2017 · Spain · 105m
A Madrid teenager holds a séance during a solar eclipse and brings something home. Loosely based on a real police file.
WATCHknownDagon
2001 · Spain · 95m
Stuart Gordon adapting The Shadow over Innsmouth, relocated to a rotting Spanish fishing town.
WATCHknownSleep Tight
2011 · Spain/Mexico · 102m
The concierge of a Barcelona apartment block cannot bear that a tenant is happy, so he makes sure she is not.
WATCHknownREC 2
2009 · Spain · 85m
The sequel picks up minutes after the first, sends a SWAT team into the sealed building, and reframes the whole outbreak.
WATCHknownThe Devil's Backbone
2001 · Spain/Mexico · 106m
Del Toro's other Spanish Civil War film, and he has called it the companion to Pan's Labyrinth.
WATCHcanonREC
2007 · Spain · 75m
A Barcelona apartment block, a news crew, and eighty minutes with no let-up.
Goreledger 8/10
WATCHcanonThe Orphanage
2007 · Spain/Mexico · 101m
Produced by del Toro, and it is a film about a mother rather than a house.
WATCHcanonThe Platform
2019 · Spain · 94m
A vertical prison and a descending table of food. The metaphor is a brick and the film is effective anyway.
WATCHcanonThe Skin I Live In
2011 · Spain · 120m
Almodóvar's only horror film, and it is a revenge story disguised as a mad-scientist melodrama.
WATCHcanonThe Others
2001 · USA/Spain · 101m
A twist that survives a second viewing, which is rarer than it sounds.
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