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32 Malasana Street
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Wikipedia article
'32 Malasana Street' is a 2020 Spanish supernatural horror film directed by Albert Pint. The cast features Begoa Vargas, Bea Segura, Ivn Marcos, Sergio Castellanos and Javier Botet, among others.
Plot
The fiction is set in 1976. A family from the countryside (the Olmedo family formed by Manolo, Candela, their three children and the grandfather Fermn) moves to the neighborhood of Malasaa in Madrid. Upon their arrival to their new home, they find out that the will have to endure living with a "strange presence".
Cast
Production
The screenplay was penned by , Gema R. Neira, Salvador S. Molina, and David Orea. The film was produced by Mr. Fields and Friends, Atresmedia Cine, Warner Bros. Entertainment Espaa, , Malasaa Movie AIE and 4 CATS Pictures.
A prime shooting location was a building in Calle de San Bernardino 3, Madrid (32 Malasaa Street does not exist, Calle de Malasaa actually ends at 30), which has also hosted part of the filmings of 'Witching & Bitching', 'May God Save Us' and 'Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot', among others.
Shooting had already wrapped in September 2019.
Release
Distributed by Warner Bros., the film was theatrically released in Spain on 17 January 2020.
Reception
Eullia Iglesias of 'El Confidencial' gave the film 2 out of 5 stars. She wrote than the film "does not delve into its metaphorical potential" and it ends up relying too much on "cheap scares". She also considered that the ending goes off-rail and that Concha Velasco does not seem to believe in the role she is playing.
Pablo Vzquez of 'Fotogramas' gave it 3 out of 5 stars, considering the film to be "an honest collection of scares", although he missed some dark humour in the film.
Among genre tropes and cliches galore, Javier Ocaa of 'El Pas' wrote that some distinctive features can be discerned (related to the production design, costumes and some social details making nods to the era the film is set in). He deemed the last half hour to be "great".
Raquel Hernndez Lujn of 'HobbyConsolas' gave it 65 out of 100 points. She praised the cast, the production design and sound production. However she negatively assessed the "ridiculous" ending, the abuse of jumpscares and the plot's lack of internal logic.
See also
* List of Spanish films of 2020
References
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