Errementari

Devilishly entertaining and fun terror and touches of black comedy about a kid and a blacksmith who become involved in terrible situations. As a Blacksmith : Kandido Uranga has captured a nasty demon, but things go wrong when a little girl , without knowing his badness , releases him . Then , the Blacksmith is chased by the townfolk , and he finds himself at the end of a lynch mob that have come searching for the missing child . Not all tales always have a happy ending.

Errementari or El Herrero or Blacksmith is a retelling of an old fable about a Blacksmith who finds himself battling the Devil as well as saving a little girl from inferno. It contains fabulous effects specials, attractive production design, impressive make-up and wonderful, iconography from inferno , in fact, demons and other horrible figures are taken from Medieval paintings , frescoes , legends and old films as Haxan by Benjamin Christensen. The film is spoken in Basque language but due to its surprising great hit has been dubbed to a lot of languages to export all around the World . All cast give nice acting , however , being unknown , exception for Kandido Uranga who has starred various films , usually as a secondary and a brief role by Itziar Ituño , formerly the participation in Money Heist or La Casa De Papel.

It packs a colorful and sinister cinematography by Gorka Gómez Andreu. Being shot on location in various gorgeous woods from Basque Country as El Pobal , Ubide, Bizkaia, Agorregi, Vitoria-Gasteiz . The motion picture was competently directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo at his first one . It won several prizes and nominations such as : Winner Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival to Artistuc contribution : Paul Urkijo. Grossman Fantastic Film and Wine Festival winner Best Film . San Sebastián Horror y Fantasy Film Festival Winner Best Feature . Goya Awards 20109 Nominee Best Specual Effects : Jon Serrano, David Heras .Motelx Festival International Lisboa de Cinema Terror Nominee Best European Feature Film Award, among others.

I like this one! It's very well done and makeup is excelent! It's horror with a great sense of black humor!

Another reviewer labeled this as a "Dark Fantasy", and that is simply spot on! It's not really a true horror movie; almost more a morality play based on Basque folklore, and is scary in a proper "Grimm's Fairy Tales" sort of way. If you're familiar with the movie "Legend"(1985 w/Tom Cruise), this movie should be next to it on your shelf... or I guess these days in the same folder on your computer/tablet.

As to viewing options, and some of the complaints about the acting, I'll say this: the English dub is pretty bad(for both dialogue and overall audio), which often over or under sells the actor's delivery. If you are one who can handle subtitles, you're best experience will be listening to the original Basque audio, and the subtitles of your native language.

What a great find I stumbled on. So refreshing to watch a film, which does not have to rely on big budgets and flashy special effects. Simply a great piece of story-telling, like watching a live theatre show.

I have never reviewed a movie on IMDB before but I was moved to since someone gave this a 1 rating then only copied the plot verbatim. I found this to be immensely enjoyable. Even with the dubbed dialogue and the captioning that didn't quite agree, it had a wonderful feel of old midevil Europe. The make up on the demons was so 1950s I felt I was enjoying an old Lon Chaney movie. Great direction and great special effects. Pop some corn and grab a Coke and a blanket and kick back for an hour and a half of running with the devil!