Carlos Aguilar
Actor · b. 1958 · Madrid, Spain
Carlos Aguilar is a Spanish film critic and novelist.
Movies8
MovieDocumentaryA dauntless film director, an enfant terrible in his early days, confrontational with censorship, always pushing the boundaries of freedom of expression, chronicler of the darkest corners of the transition, De la Iglesia will fall into the clutches of drug addiction, being forgotten and sometimes repudiated for more than a decade before eventually shaking off the ostracism to make films once again, that habit he could never kick.
Movie8.7DocumentaryHistoryJapan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film that tells its story is the first of kaiju eiga, the giant monster movies.
Movie6.0DocumentaryIn the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although foreign trends were imitated, Spanish horror offered a particular approach to sex, blood and violence. It was an extremely unusual artistic movement in Franco's Spain.
¡Zarpazos! Un viaje por el spanish horror
Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
2014 · 2 votes
Movie6.4DocumentaryThe life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001 · 8 votes
Movie3.7DocumentaryThe life of an Andalusian actress who had a brilliant career in cinema, but died early in a car accident at 27 years old.
- Movie7.0HorrorComedy
Ultra low budget horror-comedy involving a demonic cenachero (dancing fisherman).
Movie5.8DocumentaryIn 1969, Jesús Franco and Christopher Lee shot Count Dracula in Barcelona. At the same time, Pere Portabella became aware of this filming, vampirizing it in Cuadecuc, Vampir. Genre and Art-house films had never been so close. Drácula Barcelona tells the story of these two movies.
Drácula Barcelona
2017 · 5 votes
Movie5.5DocumentaryAn overview of the history of fantasy and horror cinema from the 1960s to the present day. Co-productions, the financing system, the Matesa case, the Miró Law, and the “back-to-back” system are some of the topics discussed firsthand by those involved.
Queridos monstruos
2014 · 2 votes