La noche del Virgen

I’m a little inclined to rate it better, because it’s a somewhat uniquely weird and bizarre experience, but also inclined to rate it worse, because it is a crude and self-serving twaddle through and through. In the end, I think I’ll leave it at a safe three stars. I had fun at times, I was bored at times, and other times I thought that it was too much, that it’s already beyond the boundaries of what would bring me any satisfaction as viewer. And mainly, for God’s sake, a film like this should not be two hours long! (2017.12.15)

This is an extremely disgusting film. Normally, I wouldn't have a problem with that; I've seen plenty such films (the film can hardly shock anyone who has seen a film from the Troma studio, or Japanese gore perversions). The problem is that the disgust is quite self-serving, and this is exactly the type of film that should ideally be under 80 minutes long. For a film that is two hours long, the result amounts to unbearably slow and unnecessarily protracted boredom, in which there is not nearly enough plot, humor and or disgusting scenes to carry and justify the full two hours. Instead of exaggerated wasted fun, the film is terribly boring. Yet the theme looked so promising! (2017.12.14)

Well, I don't know, for the Spaniards it's quite unusually dirty and bizarre, but I can't say that I was entertained for the whole two hours. It's quite funny at the beginning, there are a few jokes, but it's quite boring to watch it until the end. It's not much about gore, it's more about vomit and shit, which I don't find very satisfying, but I definitely won't forget the male childbirth. Maybe if the director had cut the running time by half an hour and focused more on the gore than the feces I would have been more satisfied. 60%. (2017.12.14)