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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.

This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick. Today is Kramppist Noct. And since actual Krampus films are scarce, we have the 2015 movie, some more recent

material of, I would say, dubious quality. And sadly, two seemingly lost German TV films from the 1960s.

Passing up on all of that, I figured today's Weird House Cinema Selection needed to be some manner of alternative Christmas movie,

Christmas horror tale, or something that at least invoked a horned humanoid during the holidays.

And this criteria finally led me to check out a film that had been hanging out of my watch list for a long time,

the 1995 Spanish Dark Comedy, The Day of the Beast.

I thought this was a great selection, Rob.

I'd never seen it before but i massively enjoyed it it's

really put me in the mood for the holidays i really dug it as well and i really wasn't sure

exactly what to expect you know up until the last minute watching it because uh uh as i'll get into

like the synopsis just reading the synopsis,

that could go a couple of different ways.

And I'd never seen anything from its director before.

That's Alex Dila Iglesia, you know, certainly familiar with his reputation as a director.

But I just never had checked out his work before.

I love Spanish genre films, obviously. But I would say that I would attribute my vague reluctance to the fact that if you're not familiar with his general vibe, you might reasonably expect this mid-1990s offering to be grizzlier and nastier than it actually is.

It goes kind of hard at some parts. It does. It's not a kid's movie, and it's not a walk in the park, but I don't know. Like, this came out the same year as seven, and certainly in the wake of things like Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers. And I don't know. It's like I was just always wary of it because I was just imagining the most extreme and transgressive directions that this synopsis could go in.

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