Deciding to view two titles from the Abertoir Film festival,I began searching for a title to double bill. Earlier in the year seeing the outstanding The Barcelona Vampiress (2020-also reviewed), I was happy to spot another Horror from Spain streaming on the Abertoir Festival, which led to me watching snails crawl into darkness.
View on the film:
Drifting to the secluded cabin in the small town as a place to begin writing his next novel, Javier Rey gives an outstanding performance as Prieto, who Rey is unafraid from showing the nasty, snarling side of, as he snaps at the tightly-knitted locals, and confronts those questioning him over strange attacks which have been taking place around town.
Adapting her novel as Prieto attempts to write his next one, Sandra Garcia Nieto makes her scriptwriting debut with a a glorious mix of werewolf Horror blood lust, with a playful cynicism dripping over the abrasive psychological push-pull between the locals and Prieto.
The blossoming romance Prieto has with with local Berta (played with a fiery passion by Paz Vega) adds fuel to the fire from the residence of outsider Prieto also being the werewolf, which Nieto puts out with a deliciously macabre full circle ending.
Following each page of Prieto's writing, director Macarena Astorga presents a real page-turner of a feature film debut, via ultra-stylised dissolves of the werewolf attacks seeping into Prieto's writing sessions, leading to a blurring of reality and fiction in dolly shots catching the locals locking their eyes on the outsider every time he enters the town,as Prieto visits the house of snails.
View on the film:
Drifting to the secluded cabin in the small town as a place to begin writing his next novel, Javier Rey gives an outstanding performance as Prieto, who Rey is unafraid from showing the nasty, snarling side of, as he snaps at the tightly-knitted locals, and confronts those questioning him over strange attacks which have been taking place around town.
Adapting her novel as Prieto attempts to write his next one, Sandra Garcia Nieto makes her scriptwriting debut with a a glorious mix of werewolf Horror blood lust, with a playful cynicism dripping over the abrasive psychological push-pull between the locals and Prieto.
The blossoming romance Prieto has with with local Berta (played with a fiery passion by Paz Vega) adds fuel to the fire from the residence of outsider Prieto also being the werewolf, which Nieto puts out with a deliciously macabre full circle ending.
Following each page of Prieto's writing, director Macarena Astorga presents a real page-turner of a feature film debut, via ultra-stylised dissolves of the werewolf attacks seeping into Prieto's writing sessions, leading to a blurring of reality and fiction in dolly shots catching the locals locking their eyes on the outsider every time he enters the town,as Prieto visits the house of snails.