Fantastic!

A Major Disappointment

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

A priest is convinced that the Antichrist is being born in Madrid and on Christmas Day, so he travels to the city and starts performing evil acts in an effort to get in touch with Satan and find out exactly where the birth will happen. He hooks up with a guy who works in a heavy metal record store and a TV psychic and the three of them try to track down the Antichrist and kill him in his cradle. A delirious horror comedy from severely underrated Spanish genre stylist Alex de la Iglesia.

This is an awesomely funny take on the concept of the birth of the Anti Christ. A priest comes to know 2 days before Christmas that the Anti Christ will be born on the Christmas Day. It is the story of the two days when he searches for the devil on the streets of Madrid. Aiding him in this endeavor are a heavy metal fan and a fake clairvoyant who hosts TV show about the future. There are many ironic sequences like the search for the blood of a virgin. The scenes involving the family of the heavy metal fan are unbelievably hilarious. One of the few movies which I have seen recently where I was genuinely unhappy that the movie had to end because the experience was too freakin great. 4 out of 5 for this comic masterpiece from Spain. a must watch for the movie lovers who enjoy their foreign cinema.

This movie is definitively awful. I watched it on Easter evening in 2011, hoping to see a good movie, after I had seen films like L'Aldilà of Lucio Fulci, They live of John Carpenter and The Brood of Cronenberg, but all I found is a mix of a comic movie and horror elements. These, however, aren't in the typical style of "Splatters" or "Bad Taste" (by Peter Jackson), made up as comic and horror movies. I think this was a pathetic tentative of the author of making a good horror, after felt in the comicality. The first scene, as I saw in the commercial, showing a big crucifix falls on a priest, made me think about a good movie, but the crescendo was awful: Maria Grazia Cucinotta seems idiot, and the Italian magician is totally pathetic. In a second you can even see a picture of a young Berlusconi. Don't see it.

As films like "Perdita Durango" prove, Spanish director Álex De La Iglesia is a specialist for macabre humor. One of his earlier films, "El Dia De La Bestia" aka. "The Day Of The Beast" of 1995 is a perfect example for this director's talent, a macabre and hilarious black horror comedy that entertains highly from the beginning to the end. A catholic priest (Álex Angulo) goes to Madrid in order to prevent the birth of the Antichrist, which he believes to take place there on Christmas Day. In order to find the exact place where the Antichrist is to be born, the kind-hearted priest is forced to commit 'Sins', and furthermore associates with the surprisingly friendly Death-Meal lover and Satanist Jose Maria (Santiago Segura)... Angulo and Segura both fit very well in their roles, especially Angulo is very hilarious as the priest. Armando De Razza is furthermore great, and hilarious as Cavan, a hypocritical TV psychic. Director De La Iglesia did a great job making this film a hilarious Horror-comedy and still maintaining a dark and somehow gloomy atmosphere. If you like satirical Horror, make sure not to miss "El Dia De La Bestia", and enjoy 100 minutes of macabre humor and originality. Highly Recommended!