Spanish horror
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
these films possible, both in front of and behind the camera: Jess Franco, Paul Naschy, Amando de Ossorio, Jack Taylor, Patty Shepard, Maria Silva, Lone Fleming, Eugenio Martín, Jorge Grau, Helga Liné, Howard Vernon, León Klimovsky, Carlos Aured, and Vicente Aranda, among others." --Carlos Aguilar in Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema: The Spanish Horror Film By Nicholas G. Schlegel "The Spanish horror and exploitation film has from its inception been a visual art form in which Spanish filmmakers could express their own horror and frustration with the world." --Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980 (2011) by Danny Shipka "... Spanish cinema ignore it so completely.6 However, some of the works' perspectives offer useful ways of considering Spanish horror films of the period. For example, Marsha Kinder in her important 1993 study Blood Cinema, devotes a chapter to violence in Spanish ... new thing, that Spanish culture has a strong model for politically motivated images of violence, most significantly the paintings of Goya." --Horror International (2005), Steven Jay Schneider, Tony Williams, page 166 |
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This page looks for strands of horror and exploitation in Spanish fiction.
Visual art
Film
The Eurotika! documentary 'Blood and Sand' episode focuses on classic Spanish horror, which distinguished itself as gorier, grittier, and more down-to-earth than works being produced elsewhere in Europe. The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) was the first Spanish horror film.
- Actors: Howard Vernon, Paul Naschy
- Directors: Jesús Franco, José Ramón Larraz, Jorge Grau, Javier Aguirre.
See also
- Feísmo
- La Cabina
- Nocte (Spanish Horror Writers Association)
- Horror
- Spanish erotica
- Spanish fiction
- Spanish cinema
- Spanish Inquisition
- Paul Naschy