Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
El Transplante focuses on the story of "a mature couple" who "sees the need to renew their bodies to avoid being fired from their jobs", but who only have enough money for one of them. That limiting circumstance will force them to make decisions.
El Televisor narrates how Marcos, the only neighbor without an alarm, finally ends up installing a protection system in his chalet. Far from feeling safer, he soon becomes obsessed with the idea that someone is stalking him, and he connects the signal from the surveillance cameras to the TV in the living room. Progressively, the images of the closed circuit supplant the programs and the movies, until becoming the only thing that is reproduced on the screen. His wife and his children helplessly witness the man's madness... but maybe "something" out there is really threatening the family. Something visible only between the pixels of the TV.
The alarm tells the strange experiences faced by a group of characters in a near and dystopian future. No one knows exactly why, but it is impossible to go outside. A couple is forced to live with an unknown family while the world beyond the windows of their house seems to disintegrate forever. But the biggest threat of all might be inside, in the exact center of the dining room table. Or at the bottom of the nightstand drawer. Or in the past.
The nightmare tells how in 1880 in a village in mountainous Galicia a series of mysterious deaths devastate the region. All the victims are young women, and murdered under mysterious circumstances. And the townspeople begin to suspect that the person responsible is Naim, a strange neighbor who lives apart, never leaving during the day. But Lúa, a young woman from the village who sees through her prejudices, will do everything possible to protect her most hidden secrets.
A nostalgic journey to the universe of cinephilia and the passion for fantasy, told by its specialists, fans and world stars.
How the Uruguayan-Spanish actor, writer, producer and director Narciso “Chicho” Ibáñez Serrador (1935-2019) changed forever the way of producing programs for Spanish television.
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1920s to the Belgian lesbian vampires in the 1970s, from the black-gloved killers of Italian bloody giallo cinema to the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War, and finally reveals how Europe's turbulent 20th century forged its ground-breaking horror tradition.
A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of horror, star of Argentinean theater, cinema and television for decades…
A couple with a newborn child arrives at a big old house, the ideal place to start a real family life. Before going to bed, the couple checks the operation of the listening device installed in their baby's room, whom they can listen to and watch. They soon discover that there is someone else in the house who sits next to the baby's crib every night.
Estrella, an intelligent teen student, spends most of her time alone at school or home, enjoying horror books and movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and a vampire.
During Christmas 1985, five friends who live in Cubelles, a summer town on the Costa Daurada, in Tarragona, make an unexpected discovery in the woods: a woman disguised as Santa Claus who has fallen into a hole dug in the middle of nowhere.
A gold digger (Olivia Collins) kills her rich old husband and then is driven to the brink of madness when her late hubby starts haunting her. Is he really dead or a vengeful ghost?
Third remake of the script by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador about Edgar Allan Poe's masterful story, "The Case of Mr. Valdemar".
In a London suburb, in Victorian times, lives a ragman named Edmon, along with his mother, Berenice, and a son, Bernard, whose brain is deranged from alcohol.
A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
Enrique buys a color television just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction.
Legend Of Horror was cobbled together from an Argentinian Edgar Allan Poe adaptation called Obras Maestras del Terror (the flashback sequence transforms into “The Tell-Tale Heart”) and some American wrap-around footage from 1966.
Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.
The story of the owner of a funeral home, obsessed and terrified at the possibility of being buried alive, having suffered episodes of catalepsy. He lives with his niece, to whom he tries to instill his own trade.
In the distant future, transplants of limbs and organs are a normal thing. A man flatly rejects organ transplants because he believes that in this way he maintains his integrity.
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
Two people commit suicide and the police forged a relationship between both events: both people were employees of a special parapsychology laboratory, in which precognition and clairvoyance tests were carried out.
The life of Edgar Allan Poe in an approach not often seen on screen. Poe is an egocentric and dreamy type, obsessed and idealistic, plagued by ghosts and given to drink, who from a position of editor in a major newspaper passes into the misery and despair of consumption, which eats away the life of his wife and own.
Historias para no dormir was a horror Spanish television series written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador and broadcast from 1966 by TVE-1.
Version of a story by Ray Bradbury that reiterates the themes already seen in his novel 'Fahrenheit 451'.
A retired police officer buys a house in the country to rest with his daughter, but ends up being alone with her boyfriend.
The day of his 50th birthday, a man plots to kill his wife and rob the bank he works for.
Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of liquor and a meditated revenge; a heart that refuses to stop beating.
