Writing about Pere Portabella's jaw-dropping film, CUADECUC, VAMPIR for Reverse Shot's Halloween Pumpkins

I was thrilled to write about a film which Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras filmmaker Craig Williams put me onto: CUADECUC, VAMPIR (Pere Portabella, 1971) for Reverse Shot’s annual Halloween Pumpkins feature. To read my piece, you can click the image of a leering Christopher Lee above, or here.

So why watch Cuadecuc, vampir on Halloween? Because it is a treatment of horror which examines and elevates the sensations one normally experiences when watching horror: the sense of anticipation, of mystery and bewilderment, and fascination at extraordinary and uncanny imagery, conjured here by a potent mix of pure classicism and pure innovation.