Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?
Early in the film the priest hands a piece of paper to José María reading "-Napalm Dez -Iron Maiden -Hace de Cé". This is his way of pronouncing metal bands Napalm Death and AC/DC.
Cura:
Well, it's fundamental. lt inspired me to see the Apocalypse not as an allegory but as an equation. Each letter has its own number. So, for example... Daleth is worth four, and Synn is worth three hundred, so we can...
The last scene takes place nine months after Christmas, but the flowers and trees in the park show that it's early spring.
Jaime Blanch's, David Pinilla's, Antonio Dechent's and Ignacio Carreño's characters are listed as "Toyota". These characters were replaced in later drafts of the scripts as "assailants". In the movie, they are called "Limpia Madrid", but credits still call them "Toyota." This is because they drive a Toyota car.
Spanish, Italian
EUR2,100,000 (estimated)