The Spirit of the Beehive
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10/8/1973Runtime
97 minsOverview
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.
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A haunting meditation on how a child processes horror and loss in the shadow of war, told through dreamlike imagery and long silences. The monster becomes a metaphor for the unnamed terrors of the adult world bleeding into childhood innocence.
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