The Spirit of the Beehive

Year: 1973

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Víctor Erice

FantasyDramaHumanity and the world around usSurreal and thought-provoking visions of life and deathTerrifying haunted and supernatural horror

Set in 1940, just after the Spanish Civil War, a young girl on the Castilian plain becomes unnerved after watching James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein. Her sister tells her the creature never truly died, but lingers as a spirit in a nearby barn, sparking the girl's obsession and blurring the boundary between reality and imagination.

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