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Stars: David Pareja, Estefanía de los Santos, Josep Riera, Claudia Riera, Eduardo Antuña | Written by Caye Casas, Cristina Borobia | Directed by Caye Casas

I had read quite a lot of comments about The Coffee Table before I had seen it, but pretty much all of them said something along the lines of “watch The Coffee Table knowing as little about the film as possible.” And those kinds of comments make it a very difficult film to review because they are absolutely right. You want to know as little about The Coffee Table before you see that. With that said, I will indeed keep my review spoiler-free. But I will have to write a little bit more!

The Coffee Table focuses on newly-turned parents, Jesus and Maria. Despite just becoming parents they are going through a tough time. It wasn’t easy getting pregnant, and Jesus suggests he wasn’t really ‘ready’ to have a child,...

Pull up a seat for The Coffee Table (aka La mesita del comedor)—a twisted, unforgettable gem of Spanish horror from director Caye Casas (Killing God), co-written with the late Cristina Borobia.

Described as one of the most disturbing nightmares in recent horror cinema, this film made serious waves on its original release and now it’s coming home in a stunning new Limited Edition Blu-ray from Second Sight Films and you have a chance to win a copy below.

Win a Limited Edition Blu-ray copy of Caye Casas’ The Coffee Table

This isn’t just any re-release. This collector’s dream includes a brand-new audio commentary, fresh interviews with the cast and crew, and two short films by Casas. All of it is wrapped in striking new artwork by Luke Headland, and housed in a rigid slipcase complete with a 120-page book packed with exclusive essays. A Standard Edition Blu-ray will also be available.

To celebrate the release of The Coffee Table set to arrive on Limited Edition Blu-Ray & Standard Edition Blu-ray on 28 April 2025, we are giving away a copy of the film on Limited Edition Blu-Ray to a lucky winner!

Make room for The Coffee Table (aka La mesita del comedor), a wickedly original horror from Spain, helmed by Caye Casas (Killing God) who also co-wrote with Cristina Borobia. The film certainly made a big noise and had stomachs churning on its original release and is now set for pride of place in your home, as Second Sight Films announce a fantastic new Limited Edition Blu-ray release this Spring.

The set will come complete with a new audio commentary, new interviews with the director, actors and many more as well as two of Caye Casas’ short films. The stunning set is presented in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Luke Headland and...

Caye Casas’ deeply unsettling horror The Coffee Table (La mesita del comedor) is receiving the deluxe treatment from Second Sight Films, with a Limited Edition Blu-ray release set for 28th April 2025. The Spanish psychological horror, notorious for its gut-punch storytelling and relentless descent into despair, arrives with a host of new extras, including an exclusive audio commentary, fresh interviews with the cast and director, and two of Casas’ earlier short films.

Originally released to stunned audiences, The Coffee Table has been hailed as one of the most distressing horror films in recent memory, with El Mundo branding it “horror film of the year” and Projected Figures calling it a “genre-leaping marvel” that twists from dark comedy into pure tragedy. Casas, known for Killing God, co-wrote the script with Cristina Borobia (Rip), crafting a story that plays with tension and absurdity before plunging into unbearable dread.

The film follows Jesús and María,...

Stars: Macarena Gómez, Mario Mayo, Javier Botet, Christian Thomas, David Pareja, Lucía de la Fuente, Carmen del Rosal, Zorion Eguileor | Written and Directed by Kiko Prada

Sometimes when you watch a film you know it’s right up your street from the get-go and that was certainly the case for Halloween Tales. Opening with credits that look like they jumped out of an 80s Italian horror, with a soundtrack that sounds like a homage to John Carpenter, I was hooked immediately.

Halloween Tales, also known under its original title Historias de Halloween, is a horror anthology from Spain that is obviously influenced by the likes of US productions like Creephow (the film uses comics as a framing device like that King-inspired anthology) and, obviously, The Twilight Zone, but – like many Spanish genre fare, also the work of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador.

The wraparound follows Luis (Christian Thomas), a boy whose mother,...

Stephen King is the source of many of modern horror's most powerful stories, but he is also an excellent bellwether for exciting developments in the genre world. One of his recent recommendations challenges hardcore fright fans to test their mettle: Caye Casas's taboo-smashing The Coffee Table has traumatized audiences the world over, and now this horrifying sensation is available on Shudder.

This pitch-black Spanish comedy concerns a pair of new parents who purchase a divisive piece of furniture that changes their lives in ways they could never have imagined. The film has also changed the lives of many unwitting audience members, who never saw anything as boundary-pushing — or as bizarrely funny — as this low-budget, high-tension horror-comedy. Those who won't take Stephen King's word for it can read on to find out what all the fuss is about, before plunging into the shocking experience of The Coffee Table.

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One of the scariest "non-horror" horror films of the 2020s is heading to streaming. The Coffee Table, from director Caye Casas, who co-wrote this twisted monster of a horror, thriller, black comedy with Cris Borobia,will stream on Shudder starting February 24, giving genre fans one more reason to pay for the horror-exclusive platform. A Spanish production, The Coffee Table was released in 2022 on the festival circuit, but it didn't get too much attention at the time. The director even planned to distribute it himself outside Spain, where his movie went on a very limited theatrical run. It wasn't until seminal horror author Stephen Kingpraised the film on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Casas' film gained the notoriety it deserved.

King's post (which can't be seen anymore since the horror author recently decided to leave the social media platform) read, "There's a Spanish movie called The Coffee Table on Amazon...

The solo feature directing debut of Spanish filmmaker Caye Casas, the horror comedy The Coffee Table (a.k.a. La mesita del comedor) was made in 2022 and got a lot of attention as it made its way around the world earlier this year, with JoBlo’s own Alex Maidy giving it an 8/10 review that can be read at This Link and legendary author Stephen King recommending it to his fans and followers by writing, “My guess is you have never, not once in your whole life, seen a movie as black as this one. It’s horrible and also horribly funny. Think the Coen Brothers’ darkest dream.” Now, Casas has revealed that The Coffee Table is getting a Turkish remake, titled Cam Sehpa, from director Can Evrenol!

Evrenol made his feature directorial debut with the 2015 horror film Baskin and has since directed the horror thriller Housewife, the post-apocalyptic adventure Peri: Agzi Olmayan Kiz,...

Caye Casas’s The Coffee Table delivered on of the darkest, pitch black horror comedies of the year that even shocked Stephen King. Casas revealed today that a Turkish remake of his macabre feature is now in production, with Baskin director Can Evrenol at the helm.

Casas broke the news on social media, revealing that the remake is currently titled Cam Sehpa.

The Coffee Table “follows Jesus and Maria, a couple going through a difficult time in their relationship. Nevertheless, they have just become parents. To shape their new life, they decide to buy a new coffee table. A decision that will change their existence.”

David Pareja and Estefanía de los Santos star as the ill-fated couple, with Josep Riera, Claudia Riera, and Eduardo Antuña rounding out the cast.

The horror comedy is currently streaming on Tubi in case you missed it, and Casas is already hard at work on...

Caye Casas’ Spanish comedy horror The Coffee Table has sold to Indeed for Germany, Austria and Switzerland and to BBBank in Japan for sales agent MPM Premium.

Indeed will give the film a limited release in cinemas before expanding to VoD and DVD in 2025 and BBBank will release the film in cinemas in 2025.

The Coffee Table is about a young couple raising their first child who buy a coffee table that changes their lives forever with a series of unforeseen and unnerving events.

It has already sold to Cinephobia in North America, Second Sight Films in the UK, Australia and New Zealand,...

Stars: David Pareja, Estefanía de los Santos, Josep Riera, Claudia Riera, Eduardo Antuña | Written by Caye Casas, Cristina Borobia | Directed by Caye Casas

I had read quite a lot of comments about The Coffee Table before I had seen it but pretty much all of them said something along the lines of “watch The Coffee Table knowing as little about the film as possible.” And those kind of comments make it a very difficult film to review because they are absolutely right. You want to know as little about The Coffee Table before you see that. With that said, I will indeed keep my review spoiler-free. But I will have to write a little bit more!

The Coffee Table focuses on newly-turned parents, Jesus and Maria. Despite just becoming parents they are going through a tough time. It wasn’t easy getting pregnant, and Jesus suggests he wasn’t really ‘ready’ to have a child,...

Plot: Unspeakable horror meets the blackest of black comedy. To celebrate the birth of their baby, a bickering couple buys a coffee table. Guaranteed to bring happiness to their family by the smarmy salesman, the couple instead find nothing but horror with this furniture and all without ghosts, monsters or possessions, just a tacky coffee table.

Review: It is hard for movies to fall between the cracks for a movie site like ours. Rarely do we learn of a movie after everyone else, especially two years late. The Coffee Table, directed by Caye Casas, is a Spanish movie that debuted in 2022 in Europe before hitting the festival circuit in 2023. The movie snuck onto DVD and streaming platforms domestically in April but is now buzzing thanks to an endorsement on social media from Stephen King. Knowing nothing about the film besides King’s endorsement, I checked out The Coffee Table and...

Horror fans looking to test their mettle should take note of director Caye Casas‘s The Coffee Table. Horror master Stephen King recently said of the pitch-black tragicomedy, “My guess is you have never, not once in your whole life, seen a movie as black as this one. It’s horrible and also horribly funny.”

That sums up this grim movie well, with King’s recommendation worth taking.

In a press release, Casas said, “We wanted to make one of the cruelest films ever made, one that people cannot forget. It will make them feel very strong emotions, real terror without monsters, zombies, ghosts or murderers, only with a dining room table and the cruelest fate that you can imagine.”

The filmmaker, who co-wrote the film with Cristina Borobia, isn’t downplaying the cruelty.

The film “follows Jesus and Maria, a couple going through a difficult time in their relationship.

Stephen King raves about the Spanish movie The Coffee Table, calling it "horrible and horribly funny," comparable to the Coen Brothers. King's recommendation holds weight, potentially helping The Coffee Table gain new viewers and recognition in the horror genre. Despite its controversial content, the film has gained attention and might appeal to horror fans looking for something especially disturbing.

Legendary horror novelist Stephen King shares his rave review of the little-known Spanish movie The Coffee Table. Directed by Caye Casas, The Coffee Table is a 2022 Spanish black-comedy horror movie starring Josep Riera, David Pareja, Estefana de los Santos, and Claudia Riera. Known for his extensive work in the horror genre after rising to fame with his debut novel, Carrie, King has written a total of 66 books. Many of his works, including It, The Shining, The Green Mile, and Salem's Lot, have been adapted for the screen.

Well-known for his outspoken...

Caye Casas’s second feature is audacious and sharp, but the shifts between acidic comedy of manners and humour-free horror are grating

Exhausted new parents Jesús (David Pareja) and María (Estefanía de los Santos) are looking for something to tie their front room together. But in the furniture shop, when an unctuous salesman (Eduardo Antuña) suggests the “famous” Rörret coffee table – glass top, held aloft by two golden nymphs, a snip at €1,099 – old tensions emerge. Jesús is smitten; María thinks it’s a tacky abomination. She gets to choose everything, he says – even forcing him to have kids, and also dictating their son’s name, Cayetano. “A shoddy name for a fascist bullfighter,” he says. The salesman, who shares the moniker, is put out.

The worst happens; they buy the table. Actually, that’s not the worst: it’s what occurs, involving the table, when María heads out to buy...

Stephen King praised Spanish horror film The Coffee Table as "horrible and horribly funny." The movie follows a couple who purchase a cursed coffee table, leading to tragic consequences. While dark and disturbing, The Coffee Table delivers authentic performances and has gained praise.

One of the great things about following Stephen King on social media is getting to see the master of horrors' take on some of the genre's newest films. As someone who has been in the game for the last 50 years, and has had more than 50 of his stories turned into movies, King has more than deserved his right to comment on both the good and the bad. He was recently at it again, this time offering praise to a film thats mostly flown under the radar in the mainstream, that being the little know Spanish horror gem, The Coffee Table.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter...

"Enjoy if you dare..." What crazy idea will they come up with next for a horror movie?! Try this on for size, why don't ya. Watch out for deadly tables! The Coffee Table is a Spanish horror film about, uh, some kind of haunted, killer furniture. Jesus and Maria are a couple going through a difficult time in their relationship. Nevertheless, they have just become parents and are also struggling with the pressures of a newborn baby. To shape their new life, they decide to buy a new coffee table. A decision that will change their existence and their lives forever. This indie horror was entirely shot over the course of 10 days. Starring David Pareja and Estefanía de los Santos, with Josep Maria Riera, Claudia Riera, and Eduardo Antuña. It's described as "an unsettling descent into absolute madness and misery," and also "uproariously funny until it is not at all.

"Buying that coffee table was the single worst decision I've ever made."

Caye Casas made a fantastic debut in 2017 as co-director of "Killing God," a hilariously dark comedy about messed-up family dynamics and a world-ending proposal. Now, he is really focusing on the dark part of dark comedy for his solo directorial debut in "The Coffee Table," a movie best watched as blind as humanly possible — if you even dare experience it. This is one of the bleakest, meanest, most unbearably cruel movies you could ever see, yet it is so uncomfortable and awkward you can't help but laugh in a maniacal way that might give you more than a few looks from those around you (if they're not laughing themselves). "The Coffee Table" is the anti-schadenfreude movie, one that gives you so much unpleasant misfortune you cannot possibly find it funny ... until you do.

The film follows a middle-aged couple,...

Friendship is always a fascinating subject for genre pieces. As a thesis, different filmmakers approach it in a variety of different ways. It can be something that binds our characters together, something they fight for, the thing that allows them to survive whatever horrors are thrown at them. Other times, it is more of a festering wound. Something broken below the surface. Amigo is more of the latter. The characters’ longtime friendship has been damaged in a way that is not readily apparent. Their issues emerge slowly and painstakingly and are more entrenched than either the characters or the audience thought was possible.

Directed by Óscar Martin from a script co-written by Martin and starring Javier Botet and David Pareja, Amigo starts out feeling like a buddy drama. Maybe in the years before, it could have been a buddy comedy, but life has drastically changed for these longtime friends, and...

There’s something about the relationship between a severely disabled person and a carer which seems to distort the perceptions and expectations of outsiders. Perhaps it’s a fear of looking too closely, of seeing aspects of mortality and responsibility which most people would rather not acknowledge. It can be easier, even for those involved, to think of it purely in pragmatic terms, like something mechanical, ignoring the human dimension, without regard to what went before. But as in any other area of human interaction, the reality is that there are complex emotions involved which extend far beyond the care dynamic, and sometimes the weight of the past is much harder to bear.

Óscar Martín’s Fantastic Fest hit opens with an arresting scene. A small, battered looking white car pulls up on a dusty slope in the middle of nowhere, and a tall man (David Pareja) unfolds himself from within.

The Unhappy Holiday Movie has become almost a genre unto itself, this year’s new additions running a now-familiar gamut from the sour seasonal rebound rom-com to wreathed-in-gore Yuletide horrors (including this weekend’s “Violent Night” and “Christmas Bloody Christmas”). No matter how dyspeptic in spirit, all tend to hang onto a certain cuteness, reassuring viewers they don’t really mean to rain on anyone’s annual good cheer.

Having none of that is “Amigo,” a first directorial feature for Óscar Martin, who co-wrote the screenplay with stars Javier Botet and David Pareja, a pair of frequent comedic collaborators expertly transplanting their chemistry to macabre dramatic terrain here. This wintry Spanish psychological thriller, culminating in a New Year’s Eve likely to be some characters’ last, premiered at Fantastic Fest over three years ago. It’s taken its time getting a North American release, but will prove worth the wait for fans of restrained,...

Three years after making its film festival debut, the Spanish thriller Amigo is finally set to receive a theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada this Friday, December 2nd. The film stars popular creature performer Javier Botet in a rare dramatic role that didn’t require him to be hidden under a creature suit, and co-stars his comedy cohort David Pareja.

Described as a “charmingly dark” thriller and a cinematic journey along the lines of Misery and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Amigo has the following synopsis: After a violent accident, the good-natured David (Pareja) decides to accommodate and care for his best friend, Javi (Botet). But as the two of them begin arguing, the truth about their toxic, homicidal relationship bubbles to the surface – and madness soon takes hold.

Botet and Pareja wrote the script with director Óscar Martín.

A press release says that Amigo will take viewers to “the heart of deep,...

Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at the psychological horror Amigo, featuring comedian David Pareja losing his mind as he cares for his immobile friend,

In Amigo, a violent accident convinces good-natured David (Pareja) to accommodate and care for his best friend, Javi (acclaimed creature performer Javier Botet). But as the two of them begin arguing, the truth about their toxic, homicidal relationship bubbles to the surface – and madness soon takes hold.

The film is described as “an intense cinematic journey that echoes Misery and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Amigo is a journey to the heart of deep, dark, gothic Spain that offers a radical twist to the amazing chemistry that Botet and Pareja have previously displayed in their comedy sketches together.”

A co-release from Dekanalog and Raven Banner, the acclaimed thriller, which played Fantastic Fest and Sitges, opens in U.S. and Canadian cinemas this Friday, December 2nd.