# The Day of the Beast (1995)

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**Original title**: *El día de la bestia*
**Runtime**: 104 min
**Genres**: Horror, Comedy, Action
**Directed by**: Álex de la Iglesia
**Written by**: Álex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarría
**Starring**: Álex Angulo, Santiago Segura, Armando De Razza, Terele Pávez, Nathalie Seseña, Maria Grazia Cucinotta

> *A devilishly dark comedy.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Madrid, Christmas. A ringing phone. A defrocked priest decodes the Book of Revelation, finding the Antichrist's birth imminent. Teaming with a metalhead record clerk and a charlatan TV psychic, he plots to stop the coming apocalypse. De la Iglesia’s infernal comedy mixes blasphemy and slapstick.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, pitch-black, surreal, unhinged

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