Devil Dog Road

With the prospect of earning €20,000, middling writer Tristán agrees on fulfilling his conflictive brother Simón's death wish of transporting his dead body from Avilés to Benidorm, enlisting the help of teenager Álex.^[1][2]

The film was produced by Los Hermanos Polo Films, Japónica Films, Volcano Films, and Batiak Films, with the participation of À Punt and the backing from Gobierno de Canarias and the support of IVC [ca].^[5] It had a budget of around €750,000.^[6] Shooting locations included Tenerife, the provinces of Valencia and Alicante, and Aragon.^[5]

For its world premiere on 10 April 2024, the film made it to the slate of the 41st Miami Film Festival (MFF).^[5][7] It also screened as the opening film of the 39th Cinema Jove festival in June 2024^[3] and was included in the 'Castilla y León en largo' programme of the 69th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci).^[8] It is scheduled to be released theatrically in Spain on 25 April 2025.^[9]

Alfonso Rivera of Cineuropa billed the film as "a trippy, colourful road movie, halfway between comic and US indie film, but at the same time just as Iberian as a Bigas Luna flick".^[3]

Philipp Engel of Cinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, writing that in the film, a cross between Jamón, jamón and Wild at Heart, the [positive] values go beyond aesthetic delights, also including its sense of humor, its music, and the "now forever iconic" villain portrayed by Antonia San Juan.^[10]

Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, determining it to be "an amusement full of clichés and stereotypes" from a certain 80s and 90s indie cinema that Polo sets out hoping that a complicit and nostalgic viewer be able to catch the references and laugh at them.^[11]

Carmen L. Lobo of La Razón rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, declaring it a "an amusing black comedy with a freshness and brass that is welcome these days".^[12]

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