The Spirit of the Beehive
MovieTitle | El espíritu de la colmena |
User score | 7.6 |
Release date | Oct 8, 1973 |
Genre | Drama, Fantasy |
Director | Víctor Erice |
Production country | Spain |
Production companies | Elías Querejeta PC, Jacel Desposito |
Run time | 97 min. |
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.