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The comparisons to Rodriguez and Wild at Heart don't do justice to just how feverish and psychotic this actually is. So simultaneously unpleasant and pleased with itself it dares you to hate it (the whole thing is almost an extended dead baby joke) but if you can get on its…
137th Review for The Collab Weekly Movie Watch My second Alex de la Iglesia film, and while nowhere near as great and memorable as Day of the Beast, it's still a pretty good film bolstered by a magnetic, steamy, sexy, and feisty Rosie Perez and a mad Javier Bardem with…
The uncut version restored by Severin .. thanks to Josh Hurtado
I knew I was in good hands when one of the first shots of Perdita Durango was of a jaguar pulling the bed sheets off a very naked Rosie Perez, giving the audience a look at her shapely posterior. Director Álex de la Iglesia certainly had my curiosity with how he opened his…
finds bliss in the combination of wonton violence and gallows humor that defined the post-Tarantino 90s yet does so with a glee and sincerity that the vast majority of other filmmakers miss - but Álex de la Iglesia isn't other filmmakers and is all the better for it;…
Viewed with the Collab. The more films are seen from the late 90s-early 00s, the more it can be realized how potent the zeitgeist was. The decade is full of unapologetic violence in the zany and zealous framework of Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers. Reckless abandon,…
Javier Bardem deserves an Oscar for this hands down!! Rosie Perez is ridiculously good too because together they’re TNT💣! One of the best irresistibly trashy and fast paced films I’ve seen Bardem in. Staggeringly audacious fun and violent scenes that are memorable. Perdita…
For such a Full-Blast Wild-Time, it's surprising how obscure Alex de la Iglesia's Perdita Durango is. This severely horror-adjacent crime-thriller is so grimy it's like a black tar on your screen with a demonic duo puncturing the filth by annihilating your senses. Based…
Whoever decided to give Javier Bardem THAT haircut needs more than a stern talking to...