Rent The Day of the Beast (1995)
3.7 of 5 from 52 ratings
1h 39min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Catholic priest Angel believes he has found a secret code that tells of the coming of tl Antichrist on Christmas Eve in Madrid. Joining forces with a heavy metal fan, and the host a popular occult TV show, he sets out to stop the apocalypse and kill the spawn of Satan, b needs to commit as many sins as possible to get close enough to do the job...
- Actors:
- Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura, Terele Pávez, Nathalie Seseña, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Gianni Ippoliti, Jaime Blanch, David Pinilla, Antonio Dechent, Ignacio Carreño, Saturnino García, El Gran Wyoming, Pololo, Higinio Barbero, Daniel Cicare, Javier Manrique, Aitor Fernández, David Gil, Curro Martín Summers
- Directors:
- Álex de la Iglesia
- Producers:
- Claudio Gaeta, Antonio Saura
- Writers:
- Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de la Iglesia
- Aka:
- El día de la bestia
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Best Film Quests and Adventures, Films by Genre
- Countries:
- Spain
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/09/2024
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Shelagh Rowan-Legg
- Clean Up Madrid, a brand new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Heirs of the Beast, an archive feature-length documentary
- Antichrist Superstar, an archive interview with director Alex de la Iglesia
- The Man Who Saved the World, an archive interview with actor Armando De Razza
- Beauty and the Beast, an archive interview with actor Maria Grazia Cucinotta
- Shooting the Beast, an archive interview with director of photography Flavio Martinez Labiano
- Mirindas Asesinas, a 1990 short film by Alex de la Iglesia
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/09/2024
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Shelagh Rowan-Legg
- Clean Up Madrid, a brand new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Heirs of the Beast, an archive feature-length documentary
- Antichrist Superstar, an archive interview with director Álex de la Iglesia
- The Man Who Saved the World, an archive interview with actor Armando De Razza
- Beauty and the Beast, an archive interview with actor Maria Grazia Cucinotta
- Shooting the Beast, an archive interview with director of photography Flavio Martínez Labiano
- Mirindas Asesinas, a 1990 short film by Álex de la Iglesia
- Theatrical trailers
- Image gallery
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Reviews (1) of The Day of the Beast
Apocalypse by Amateur Hour - The Day of the Beast review by griggs
There’s something oddly cheering about an apocalypse story fuelled by pure stupidity. A priest cracks a supposed end-times code and decides the only way to stop the Antichrist is to get his hands dirty — virtue as sabotage, carried out with all the grace of a shopping trolley on a hill.
The Day of the Beast really kicks in once Álex Angulo’s frantic cleric links up with Santiago Segura’s hopeless metalhead and a TV psychic grifter who sells dread with studio lighting. The comedy comes from incompetence: these aren’t chosen warriors, they’re three idiots improvising theology and making everything worse.
It wears horror trimmings, but it runs on farce — plans collapsing on contact with reality, bodies ricocheting through Madrid like the city’s enjoying the joke. Loud, grubby, and strangely warm: a nativity scene defaced, then hugged back into place.
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