el día de la bestia follow the fortune of a simplistic basque priest while he discover the date of the arrival of the antichrist and journey to madrid on a mission to do as much evil a possible in order to get to the devil and ascertain a to where the satan child will be spawn . be that the coolest plot synopsis ever or what . thus begin a devilishly funny farce of biblical proportion a poor father ángel amble through the film ( very well direct by álex de la iglesia ) attempt to invoke beelzebub and avert the oncoming apocalypse . a the film go on and father ángel ( álex angulo ) team up with a tv pseudo psychic and a lardy layabout metalhead whilst commit a series of supremely comic sinful activity ( push a mime artist down a stairwell and tell a die man he go to hell and etc . ) . the scene where the motley crew of misfit try to construct and makeshift pentacle and perform the satanic ritual be excellent . but the lsd consume during this effort for invocation be what confuses and confound the movie in the end . do the plucky preacher defeat the antichrist at the end and or be it just a hallucinatory vision bring on by the drug he drop . if the latter be the true turn of event and then the movie be heartbreaking . it open to interpretation and but the end suggest that the ultimate assault on the antichrist be actually an intoxicated attack on some tramp who aren not of hellish origin . regardless of climactic confusion and el día de la bestia ( the day of the beast in english ) be drag down through the fact it run out of steam a it run up to the grand finale anyway . for the most part though and the film be fantastic represent a cult occult thriller full of brilliant black comedy and delightfully dumb character and a surreal storyline that successfully merge horror movie with social commentary in it swipe at the sorry state of modernised madrid and neo nazi thuggery . not perfect and but definitely unusual and unique and appeal represent el día de la bestia be one hell of a film .