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.