Cold Sweat

The Day of the Beast

Friday, March 20

Showtimes

Friday, March 20

9:00pm

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$12 /Single Ticket
$18 /Double Feature with City of the Living Dead

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A darker-than-dark horror comedy from Spanish prankster Álex de la Iglesia, El Dia de la Bestia (or The Day of the Beast) established him as one of the most important directors in contemporary Spanish cinema.

Described as both a “satanic comedy” and an “Antichrist’s Christmas Myth,” this outlandish satire about a Basque priest (Álex Angulo) purposely facilitating sinful behavior and dark ceremonies to bring out Satan for the final battle between Good and Evil on Christmas Eve, was a hit with audiences and critics upon release in 1995. Spanish cinema treasure Santiago Segura (a favorite of Iglesia and Guillermo Del Toro) plays the metalhead lackey enlisted by the priest, along with a TV con-artist (Armando De Razza) joining a hilariously ill-conceived scheme to birth the Antichrist and bring about Armageddon – with a little help from Baphomet the Man-Goat, of course.

Featuring a rather amazing soundtrack including cuts from Pantera, HeadCrash, Sugar Ray and Ministry, this is a demented, irreverent and unmistakably Spanish-Punk imagining of Hell on Earth.

Álex de la Iglesia, Spain/Italy, 1995, 103 min, DCP, In Spanish with English subtitles

COLD SWEAT – MARCH 20 DOUBLE FEATURE

The Day of the Beast screens in a double feature with City of the Living Dead (1980) as a part of our monthly COLD SWEAT film series that dives deep into the world of horror and cult cinema, offering unexpected, visceral double features designed to raise the hair on the back of your neck and send a chill down your spine.

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