The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Víctor Erice · 99 min · Letterboxd ↗

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.

The Spirit of the Beehive screens once in London: Prince Charles Cinema, Saturday 16 January at 12:15.