‘Stories not to sleep’ the Amazon Prime remake that you will have to see accompanied

If the name of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador only sounds like the contest one, two, three...Answer again, it is obvious that you need to read these pages, because the filmmaker, director, director of theater, actor and Spanish scriptwriter not only contributed color and joy to the Spanish television of the Tardofranchism.He also aroused a real interest in making cinema, but of the good, and that only directed two films in his life: La Residencia (1969) and who can kill a child?(1976), two intrigue titles and terror as extreme as modern.

It was precisely with that cinematographic language with which he kept a whole country attached to the small screen with his mythical stories not to sleep.He directed and performed this anthological series of 29 self -including episodes between 1966 and 1982, sometimes adapting works by great classics of terror, mystery and science fiction such as Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury or Robert Arthur;others, scripting Spanish novels, such as Carlos Buiza and Fernando Jiménez del Oso, and, some, writing them himself in his few spare time.So if Hollywood presumes to be the cradle of the best horror films for producing blockbusters of the caliber of the Matanza de Texas, Chucky: the diabolical doll or the recent deliveries of American Horror Story, that they turn around here and discover thatOur Chicho always took the lead.

Nor are we going to deny his influences, because he was a lover confessed from Hitchcock and all the gothic literature that drank as a child for a disease that prevented him from playing in the street.But there is also a generation of filmmakers (Amenábar, from the church, Bayona, Balagueró, Paco Plaza, vigalondo...) that claim their legacy and recognize being what they are thanks to him.They told him when he received the Goya of Honor two years ago, months before he died."Single and original nightmare creator, thanks for opening the way".He, moved, said he had only been a "emotion framing".He forgot to add his revolutionary status in TVE, where he introduced new airs to fight censorship.

Today, half a century after the premiere of those horror stories for the elderly ("because adults make us good to feel children again," he used to say), a team with first -level names recovers his terrifying heritage with a four -episodes rebootof stories not to sleep that you can see on Amazon Prime Video.

Distressing and jocular

Let's start with Rodrigo Cortés, the director of the overwhelming Buried and Red Lights, who has been in charge of reworking the joke, Chicho's original story.The distribution of this distressing story (Nathalie Poza, Eduard Fernández and Raúl Arévalo) as soon as it makes you feel deep anguish in the stomach.The disturbing atmosphere, the interpretation and dialogues of this triangle of betrayals and lows are pure cinema.

Disturbing and dystopian

The double is also a note.The award -winning Rodrigo Sorogoyen (the kingdom, mother, riot) and of the four deliveries is the most disturbing.David Verdaguer and a Vicky Luengo Chameleonic and out of registration star in a dystopian story of emotional and artificial intelligence that would not be strange if we lived in a few years.Give what to think.

Diabolical and twisted

The titled Freddy, from Paco Plaza (Saga Rec, Verónica, who Mata Iron), with Miki Esparbé, Adriana Torrebejano and Carlos Santos, is a story in which the Ibáñez Serrador himself appears.A good handful of scares and the portrait, in the middle of a filming, how it worked then.Round.

Surrealist, comic and dramatic

Finally the El Asphalt update, awarded in 1967 at the Montecarlo Television Festival.Pure surrealism and dramatic comedy that shrinks the heart.Paula Ortiz (the bride) resorts to Inma Cuesta and Dani Rovira to realize this nightmare.

And so far the twist to the major work of the master of Spanish horror story.Culturized and entertained with other formats (Waku Waku, let's talk about sex, the traffic light), but we stayed with their stories not to sleep, whose headland tuning already froze your blood.

Stories not to sleep, the remake of the emblematic Chicho Ibáñez Serrador series, premieres on November 5 at Amazon Prime Video.