É um filme vendido como terror, mas é um terror psicológico e extremamente real. Com uma cadência lenta, sem monstros nem heróis de aço. Somente pessoas comuns com toda a maldade existente dentro de cada um. O fim pode não agradar a todos, mas eu gostei pois deixa o filme ainda quente em nossas memórias por um bom tempo.

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A Spanish French film that really puts you on edge, brilliant acting by all the lead characters and well worth a watch

Tough but realistic film. Mirrors the terribly true story of the Dutch Martin Verfondern https://archive.is/KHfGb. There is a documentary from 2016 called Santoalla to complete this watching to make it even more depressing.

At times, the movie has a tendency to openly state the themes clumsily but it's hard to deny the emotional effectiveness of the ending

One of the worst films I've ever sat through. Utterly brilliant first half, but fuelled only by the false hope that something mesmerising was coming in the second... it wasn't. Do not waste two hours of your life on this. Absolutely no value as entertainment or education or anything else. Ultimately it was just a cheap, grey, Jean de Florette-wannabe misery-porno.

How much spoiler you can put on a poster? All of it it seems... The movie exposes some of the xenophobe caused by material issues that can happen anywhere in the world, but in Spain in this case against a couple of French that survives by an ecosutenatible live. The tensions rise up to peak and unavoidable point. Good acting, believable story, hard to watch - but with and open end that we (hope) wish for justice. A 7.5 out of 10.0 for me, B+. But could be better.

As far as I know this is our first Galician language film - unsurprisingly, I know absolutely nothing about it. I have concerns it's going to be a bit tense for my liking, but let's see... The film doesn't rush in to giving you any clue as to what's going to happen - we meet Olga (Marina Foïs) and Antoine (Denis Ménochet) who are a French couple living in Spain and they seem to mostly get on with their lives, but there are initial signs that they doesn't get on with some of the natives. Particularly their neighbours Xan (Luis Zahera) and Loren (Diego Anido), and things just get worse as the film progresses - and that's all I'm going to tell you about the story! It's all very well written and surprisingly tense throughout - much more so than I was expecting (I had to take quite a few breaks from it) and you get a real sense of injustice in places. However, it's nicely balanced because although one side is obviously wronged, all parties could be more considerate and they're given their moment to explain their point of view and their motivation. It also has an ending that really keeps you guessing - ten minutes from the end, I had no idea how it was going to be wrapped up (but it does it well). There are also a surprising number of scenes where the actors are really given the opportunity to open up their acting throttle and let loose - which I wasn't really expecting. It's very well acted by all the people I've previously mentioned, with Denis in particular giving a really good performance - it's actually the second time we've seen him on here because he's also in Only The Animals (which is a film I very much recommentd) - he's also in Inglorious Basterds, apparently. I'm also going to mention Marie Colomb who plays Marie, Olga and Antoine's daughter - she's not in it loads, but she's in a couple of very strong scenes with Marina. It's also well shot - the rural setting is beautiful and really used to full effect, but there are also some very well framed indoor shots. My only real quibble would be that I didn't need it to be 2:15 long - losing 20-30 minutes would have made absolutely no difference to the plot. However, it would have made things even tenser, so maybe I should be pleased it gave me some opportunities to relax. For the first film on the list (which must have had a reasonably small budget) this is an amazingly accomplished offering - I don't imagine too many people will have sought out a Galician language offering, but everyone's missing out on a great film. If you fancy it, it's available to stream on BFIPlayer and, you might be surprised to hear, available to rent in most of the usual places, so I hope people stumble across it (provided they're able to deal with tension slightly better than I am).

I'm captivated by the atmospheric brilliance of 'The Beasts.' The portrayal of the mysterious hill-dwelling community adds excitement to the story, transforming seemingly simple expressions into moments of eerie suspense.

For me this is the best film of 2023 and to say that in Italy almost no one knows it

excelente trama, excelentes actuaciones.

Gran casting y adaptación de los hechos.

Not an easy watch as the tension is ratcheted up sky high for much of the movie but one if the best Spanish films l have seen in recent years. It's a bit Jean de Florette- idealistic outsider pursuing a dream of a rural idyll is confronted by scheming yokels. Their malice is not without foundation and without giving too much away l often wonder where people, like the central character Antione, who consider themselves green, imagine electricity is going to come from if we do not build the means to capture renewable energy. That aside, this is a powerful and compelling drama where the hero emerges half way through the film.

I don't know why anyone would want to watch a film such as this. What a nightmare. What is the purpose of this? Is this supposed to make you feel grateful about how much worse things could be? That was so unpleasant. Poisoning the whole plot of land with lead was so unnerving. What a nightmare to consider how difficult/impossible it would be to remediate. Yep, we've poisoned most of our planet with heavy metals, plastic, and industrial waste. I don't think this movie was useful in any way though. It has a "good" ending, but all I can think is, how in reality, things like this probably happen all the time without any repercussions.

Brilliant. Magnificent. Terrifying. A master piece.

A master piece, great combination of direction and script, just great!

Not a bad movie but…not really good either. Very slow and very grim. Not sure why it's called ‘The Beasts' since animals don't have anything to do with it despite the Netflix cover. I guess it's meant for the human characters. It's really just an escalating argument between neighbors. Maybe try something else.

Acting was great but the ending wasn't the best. Leaves you with unanswered questions in the end which is not a great way to end a two hour movie.

Worth watching movie, while the director caresses our eyes with wonderful nature of Galicia, meanwhile it tells an eye opening story about how the lack of common knowledge and ignorance plays a fairly horrifying part in our lives.

Best movie of the year. Scary that it's actually based on a true story.;