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This chapter opens with the ground-breaking trick films of Segundo de Chomón and moves swiftly through the early years of the twentieth century to focus on the first cinematic Gothic boom in Spain: ‘fantaterror’, a cycle of exploitational horror films made cheaply and with both national and international markets in mind. The period between 1968 and 1980 saw the release of dozens of films, but I concentrate here on the type of monsters that developed from the most notable examples, especially the work of Paul Naschy, and which I divide into two categories: glocal (local yet global) myths, which expand well-known figures like Count Dracula; and ‘national’ monsters, more intrinsic figures like the Blind Dead and Alaric de Marnac, a supernatural vengeful knight based on Gilles de Rais.
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Aldana Reyes, X. (2017). From Segundo de Chomón to the Rise and Fall of ‘Fantaterror’. In: Spanish Gothic. Palgrave Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-30601-2_8
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