2017 · comedy · thriller · horror
The Bar
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia1h 42m2017
In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.
Our read: The Bar (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
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How The Bar feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want trapped-patron panic with dark Spanish comic bite.”
Skip it tonight — Bloody siege stress and sewer horror are not your late-night mood.
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