Películas para no dormir: Cuento de navidad (2005) (TV)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Paco Plaza

Writer:

Luis Berdejo (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Plot:

In 1985, in a coastal town, the friends Koldo, Peti, Tito, Eugenio and Moni stumble with a woman dressed...

Plot Keywords:

Police Station | Zombie | Police | Rope | Food

Cast

Maru Valdivielso	...	Rebeca Expósito
Christian Casas	...	Koldo
Roger Babia	...	Peti
Pau Poch	...	Tito
Daniel Casadellà	...	Eugenio
Ivana Baquero	...	Moni
Elsa Pataky	...	Ekran
José Torija	...	Charles
Loquillo	...	Taylor
Saurí	...	Policía Gourmet
Nacho Moliné	...	Locutor Telediario
Antonio Duque	...	Nets

Also Known As:

Films to Keep You Awake: The Christmas Tale (International: English title)
Conte de Noël (France) [fr]
Matomena hristougenna (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Xmas Tale (Germany) [de]

Runtime:

71 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Castelldefels, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Filmax Televisión

Trivia:

Except for Rebeca and the actors in TV, all the adults in this movie are unseen or partially-unseen characters, with their faces always hidden after newspapers or beyond the border of the screen.

Movie Connections:

References Star Wars (1977)

A Tale of Cruelty and Lack of Innocence

In 1985, in a coastal town in Spain, the friends Koldo (Christian Casas), Peti (Roger Babia), Tito (Pau Poch), Eugenio (Daniel Casadellà) and Moni (Ivana Baquero) stumble with a woman dressed like Santa Claus trapped in a hole in the woods. While to boys go to the police station to ask for help, the others find a rope to take the woman out of the hole. However, the boys find in the police station that the woman is the dangerous thief Rebeca Expósito (Maru Valdivielso), who has just stolen two million pesetas from a bank and is wanted. The group decides to leave the woman in the hole without any food to force her to give the robbed money to them. Meanwhile, Peti and Eugenio that are fans of the movie "Zombie Invasion", decide to make a voodoo ceremony with Rebecca to transform her into a zombie. When Rebecca escapes from her imprisonment, she uses an axe to chase the evil boys.

"Cuento de Navidad" is a one of the best episodes that I have seen of the great Spanish series "Películas Para No Dormir". The director Paco Plaza has an extraordinary effort to make such good movie working with five kids and one outstanding actress, Maru Valdivielso. The result is an original and very dark film, blending black humor and horror with cruelties and no innocence of the abusive teenagers that show no merci while torturing a "mean woman". My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Delinqüentes Diabólicos" ("Evil Delinquents")