If you are somewhat saturated with this trend that predominates in current cinema, in which films last more than 120 minutes, and you like fantasy genre cinema, You are in the ideal place. Regarding the duration, we remind you that here you have 5 critically acclaimed movies on Netflix under 90 minutes because we know that, most of the time, less is more.
If, furthermore, we tell you that it is a spanish film -with the difficulties that come with being able to shoot a fantasy genre feature film in our country- and which adapts a popular gothic horror story from deep Euskadititled Patxi ErrementariaI’m sure you’re widening your eyes right now.
Therefore, we want to rescue ora film that is on Netflix lasts only 93 minutesyes forks one of the best fantasy films in the history of cinema: ‘Errementari (The Blacksmith and the Devil)’directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo and starring Kandido Uranga, Eneko Sagardoy and Itziar Ituno. Both Uranga and Ituño would repeat under Urkijo’s orders in ‘Irati’ (you have it on Prime Video), a new example of the director’s talent in which, as he stated in his social networks, he used “a script adapted from countless stories, legends, stories and anthropological symbolism using the graphic novel ‘The Irati Cycle’ as a starting point”.
In ‘Errementari (The blacksmith and the devil)’ we move to a small town in Álavain which a government commissioner investigate an event that takes you up a sinister blacksmith shop deep in the forest, where a dangerous and lonely blacksmith named Patxi lives. Villagers in the area tell dark stories about him related to robberies, murders and demonic pacts. Until by chance an orphan girl manages to sneak into the mysterious blacksmith shop, uncovering the terrible truth hidden behind Patxi the Blacksmith.
In Fotogramas’ review of ‘Errementari (The Blacksmith and the Devil)’we assure that Paul Urkijo Alijo approaches the film “from the innocence and fascination of a child for the stories in which effects and makeup are art of pure physicality” (as demonstrated by its nomination for Best Visual Effects at the Goya Awards). It is, therefore, one of the best Spanish movies available on Netflixbelonging to that sweet list that includes others like ‘The Impossible’, ‘Parallel Mothers’ either ‘The days to come’.
‘Errementari (The blacksmith and the devil)’which has Álex de la Iglesia as produceris one of those miracles of the fantasy genre that occur in Spain, a film more than entertainingpossessor of a great atmosphere that surrounds the entire story and with an impeccable technical section.
Jorge is an expert in movies, series and comics. His favorite genres are horror and science fiction, the perfect balance between the thunderous scream of the slasher and the disturbing silence of space and, although he flirts with auteur cinema in search of that hidden gem far from the mainstream, he does not hide, His thing is commercial cinema from Marvel, Star Wars, DC and Pixar.
This restless journalist discovered the mysticism of ‘Twin Peaks’ a few years ago and, since then, it has been just another concept trapped inside David Lynch’s head. When he manages to escape from the Black Lodge, he revisits the filmography of the master Carpenter, loses himself again between the pages of Moore and Gibbons’ ‘Watchmen’ or sets out in search of new emotions in miniseries format.
After his brief stint in media such as TVE, RNE and the TV and communication section of La Razón, Jorge has spent more than a decade in the delirious world of advertising agencies, where he has had the opportunity to be part of various communication teams. which have allowed him to participate in soirees, events, junkets and various efforts with performers of the stature of Antonio de la Torre, Jared Harris, Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo and Christina Hendricks. He arrived at FOTOGRAMAS in 2022, where he managed to carve out a niche as an editor to write about the most popular series, the best Alfred Hitchcock films or everything related to franchises, reboots, prequels, sequels, sequels and various nonsense of the moment, returning from This forms his passion for journalism and cinema.
Jorge has a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, in addition to being a director from the RTVE Institute, where he acquired notions of pre-production, production and post-production of audiovisuals.
