Featured Audience Ratings

• Stella D

  
  hilarious, like a subversive ghostbusters, with great committed performances by alex angulo as the mad priest and especially santiago segura as a heavy metal fan enlisted to help prevent the apocalypse

• Fernando Rafael Q

  
  Exceptional dark comedy from Almodóvar protegé, Alex de la Iglesia. Shocking, violent and hilarious, EL DIA DE LA BESTIA is endlessly entertaining. De la Iglesia takes a classic formula and sets it in Madrid to interesting results. Alex Angulo, Santiago Segura and Armando de Razza… More
  Exceptional dark comedy from Almodóvar protegé, Alex de la Iglesia. Shocking, violent and hilarious, EL DIA DE LA BESTIA is endlessly entertaining. De la Iglesia takes a classic formula and sets it in Madrid to interesting results. Alex Angulo, Santiago Segura and Armando de Razza play a triad of unique characters that compliment each other perfectly, bringing the amazing story by De la Iglesia and Jorge Guerricaechevarría to life.

• Luke B

  
  How has this film been around for 14 years without me hearing of it? This is exactly my cup of tea. Original, funny, exciting and dark. The Day of the Beast is about a priest that begins committing sins so that he can contact Satan and trick him into revealing the future birth place… More
  How has this film been around for 14 years without me hearing of it? This is exactly my cup of tea. Original, funny, exciting and dark. The Day of the Beast is about a priest that begins committing sins so that he can contact Satan and trick him into revealing the future birth place of the Antichrist. Thus, allowing him to kill the child and prevent the apocalypse. The film begins with our "hero", a very loose term as he must be evil to save the world, doing stuff such as stealing change from beggars, pushing mimes off high platforms and keying peoples cars. As the end of days approaches, his acts become even more dark, but are always handled with a dark sense of humour. On his way he picks up two followers and the three of them create a very memorable cinematic trio. The film succeeds with a spot-on tone. It's never cheesy, too far-fetched or too serious. It knows when to drive the plot forward and when to sit back and have some fun. It also has some kickass music and memorable death scenes.

• Pierluigi P

  
  De la Iglesia's perfect blend of horror with the most crazy, outrageous humour. the "three wise men" are superb in their roles, but Santiago Segura is the one who steals the show. Apocalypse will never be this fun.

• Tsubaki S

  
  Could bennefit from a better resolution (the one it has makes no sense at all) but all the film up to that point is very fun to watch. A "Don Quijote" spoof with a heavy metal fan instead of Sancho, and and all the demonic imagery you could ask for.

• Eduardo C

  
  There has never been a film quite like "El Día de la Bestia" before. Hot on the heels of his surprisingly successful "Acción Mutante", Alex De La Iglesia decided to go all out and craft an irreverent, satirical, angry, violent and hillarious masterpiece about a… More
  There has never been a film quite like "El Día de la Bestia" before. Hot on the heels of his surprisingly successful "Acción Mutante", Alex De La Iglesia decided to go all out and craft an irreverent, satirical, angry, violent and hillarious masterpiece about a Priest who embarks on a mission to save Madrid from the upcoming apocalypse only to find a city on the verge of imploding under the weight of its own hypocrisy and inequity. Confronted with the fact that she Satan he so fervently wishes to banish may very well not be as literal as the one he prepared himself to face, our Priest has a series of decisions to make. The movie is impeccably acted with Santiago Segura as the standout in the role that made him a superstar. His chemistry with our other two leads is what keeps the film chugging and his combination of self effacting humor, childish tantrums and ridiculous appearance provide the film with both its biggest laughs and its heart. Laced with biting social commentary, near-gratuitous levels of violence and a sense of humor that can best be described as offensive, "El Día de la Bestia" is a journey well worth undertaking.

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