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Tarfumes.com - Day of the Beast
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List Price: $69.98
Our Price: $31.42
Your Save: $ 38.56 ( 55% )
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Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Starring: Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura, Terele Pávez, Nathalie Seseña
Directed By: Álex de la Iglesia
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781573627375
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 1573627372
Label: Vidmark / Trimark
Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark
Release Date: 1999-11-23
Running Time: 99
Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
Theatrical Release Date: 1998-12-23
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Summary: Verse, y verse muchas veces...
Comment: Si le fascina "El Quijote" y "La Celestina" y los cuentos de Borges, ante ustedes un reto visual que casi iguala en profundidad el ataque al mundo de los signos que hacen Cervantes, Rojas, y Borges. Amén de la complejidad textual es además pura diversión, lo que lleva al observador consciente de los muchos niveles a reír, pero a reír ante la trampa que es la vida.
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Summary: a wonderfully dark, insane romp
Comment: How does a holy man meet Satan? It's not like Satan hangs out with the righteous. When the anti-Christ visits the Earth, he'll be surrounded by sinners. Catholic priest, Padre Ángel Beriartúa (Álex Angulo) realizes this and sets out to commit an array of affronts in order to meet the anti-Christ (and destroy him). Thus begins Alex de la Iglesia's 1996 supernatural comedy.
Padre Beriartúa goes on a rampage of transgression. Rather than giving last rights to an accident victim, he bids the man to rot in Hell. Worse yet, he pushes a mime, smokes, and listens to heavy metal music. Aided by metal head Jose Maria (Santiago Segura), the pair kidnap Professor Cavan (Armando De Razza), host of the supernatural talk show "The Dark Zone." From there, the film becomes something akin to THE KING OF COMEDY crossed with THE NINTH GATE.
DAY OF THE BEAST is a wonderfully dark, insane romp and typical of de la Igelsia's outrageous oeuvre. Unfortunately, DAY OF THE BEAST has not been released either as a sell-through title, on DVD, or with English subtitles in the U.S. A beautiful copy of this is available from [..]
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Summary: Eschatology brings people together
Comment: The eschatological plot of The Day of the Beast, which has been sufficiently related in the synopsis, does not circumscribe it. It is a grand and generous piece of post-modern art. It is not a horror, a comedy, or an admixture. Rather, this is a very earnest meditation on both the absurdity of aspects of the Western tradition (with the Catholic Church as a worthy proxy) in particular and the human condition in general. By playing the ridiculousness of literal interpretations of the New Testament (explicitly eschatology, but implicitly the whole kit and caboodle) off of the (or less cynically, "an") alternative of grime, incest, illiterate ignorance (to be contrasted with the literate ignorance of the church), and desolation, a highly sophisticated tension is developed which can engender a mild melancholia in the viewer, despite the wild action unfolding on the screen. Though the perspective is ironic, the characters' perspectives are not, each fully immersed in his own tiny life and each taking that life very seriously. The impetus provided to the priest by his belief is the catalyst for the plot development. It drives him away from his cloister and to the ugly city. Though the belief, taken on its own terms has universal implications (in its own universe), we see the priest as a man motivated by a set of ideas and a worldview into which he has been indoctrinated since a young boy. To him it is reality, and in fact there can be no other reality to him. Though this is true for all characters in all stories, the use of such an extreme belief makes this point effortlessly. A perhaps fantastic (and perhaps not) thing is that his strength of belief is able to gain him confederates, the TV charlatan and the Satanist. The question of whether their quest is true or not is irrelevant. Indeed, the viewer even demanding a judgment on whether there is an absolute truth to the quest would burst the dialectical soap bubble. What is happening is a car-crash of beliefs, all born of non-sense. Despite this heady subtext, this film is not in any way distant. The acting is highly engaging, there is action, the city settings are full of color and pleasing to the eye in their stylized grittiness, and the dialogue is a satisfying blend of the absurd and the prosaic, done so well in some Spanish cinema. It would be wrong to say the ending is ironic, because to do so would mean having missed the deliciously ironic nature of the film from the outset. But it is indeed a delightful ending. We almost blush at our previous preoccupation with the conflict between biblical non-sense and everyday non-sense when we see two broken, haggard men in a city park, alone except for each other, and heroes only to each other. Ultimately, this is a film about companionship, reminding us that passing time in limbus patrum with friend than alone.
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Summary: Beautiful Master Horror Piece
Comment: Alex de la Iglesia takes one of the most scary moments in a society full of technology, absurdity, and vanity (December 31, 1999). Using this elements as a obstacle for a society to realize its lost, only a man, Padre Angel, who has dicovered the code in the bible would save the world. A aesthetically beautyful master piece, a great mise-en-scene, and an plot who would put you in the edge of your chair. The day of the Beast is more than a simple film, and more than another story of a saviour.
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Summary: Very interesting.
Comment: I liked this movie ok, was well dubbed, of course the acting was horrid being dubbed. Honestly the film does in a way have a good story, pretty creative for the apocolypse, special effects were well, I guess ok, of the devil looking like a goat. Honestly though I think the makers of this film really thought of it to be a serious horror movie, as I thought it was just down right hilariously dumb, yet in a way entertaining. The music score of when the priest is checking out metal bands for coded messages of the devil, such as Napalm's death,AC/DC and my all time favorite Iron Maiden. Almost thought they were gonna have the song Number of the beast on here, which would've fit perfectly, all in all its an ok bad acting, dumb apocolyptic movie, it honestly is pretty stupid. Still anyone should check it out, its well worth it. Just an enjoyable,goofy,and almost freaky,funny yet often exciting horror movie.
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