Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

El trasplante (2022)

El Transplante focuses on the story of "a mature couple" who "sees the need to renew their bodies to avoid being fired from their jobs", but who only have enough money for one of them. That limiting circumstance will force them to make decisions. ...

La pesadilla (2022)

The nightmare tells how in 1880 in a village in mountainous Galicia a series of mysterious deaths devastate the region. All the victims are young women, and murdered under mysterious circumstances. And the townspeople begin to suspect that the person respo ...

La alarma (2022)

In a near and dystopian future, for reasons unknown, it is impossible to go outside. A couple is forced to live with an unknown family while the world beyond the windows of their house seems to disintegrate forever. But the biggest threat of all might be i ...

El televisor (2022)

El Televisor narrates how Marcos, the only neighbor without an alarm, finally ends up installing a protection system in his chalet. Far from feeling safer, he soon becomes obsessed with the idea that someone is stalking him, and he connects the signal from ...

El doble (2021)

Year 2045. In an attempt to save his relationship with Eva, Dani acquires a double to cover his absence when she needs him. ...

La broma (2021)

Elena and her lover Javier set in motion a plan to assassinate her husband Alberto, a successful businessman. ...

El asfalto (2021)

Between astonishment and despair, Baldo, a courier, sees how, slowly and inexorably, he sinks into the asphalt. ...

Freddy (2021)

Madrid, Spain, 1982. TV director Chicho Ibáñez Serrador asks André, a lousy actor playing a ventriloquist, to work with Charlie, a disturbing dummy. ...

Insania (2019)

Tono is continuously harassed by her mother, who is uncannily cruel and authoritarian. His obsession with a woman's voice recorded on cassette and his favorite doll will help him fight out of his mother's control. ...

The Baby's Room (2006)

Juan and Sonia arrive at a large old house, an ideal place to raise their newborn son. When, one night before going to bed, they check the operation of the monitoring device installed in the baby's room, they discover that someone is sitting next to the cr ...

A Real Friend (2006)

Estrella, an intelligent teen student, spends most of her time alone at school or home, enjoying horror books and movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface ...

Spectre (2006)

After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small vi ...

Blame (2006)

When nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her six year-old daughter Vicky to her old big house where she runs a gynecologic clinic. In return, Gloria will assist Ana in her clinic in the afternoons. ...

To Let (2006)

Mario and Clara, his pregnant girlfriend, try to find a new apartment to settle in as soon as possible, so they go to visit one in a distant neighborhood that seems abandoned. Once there, things are not as they expected. ...

A Christmas Tale (2005)

Cubelles, Tarragona, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere. ...

Doble venganza (1991)

La jaula de la muerte (1990)

An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece. ...

The Man Who Returned from Death (1990)

A gold digger kills her rich old husband and then is driven to the brink of madness when her late hubby starts haunting her. Is he really dead or a vengeful ghost? ...

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously. ...

Los bulbos (1974)

Gianfranco, a peddler, and Lina, his young assistant, arrive in Montepulciano, a small Italian village, where they lure the local children by performing fascinating conjuring tricks. ...

La pesadilla (1974)

The people of a village think that the man that lives alone in a remote castle is a vampire and the responsible for the death of several young women. They plan to lynch him. ...

The Ragman (1974)

Edmund, a ragman that lives in the suburbs of the city with his wife, Berenice, suspects that their son, Bernard, an incurable alcoholic, is the responsible for the profanation of several tombs discovered in the local cemetery. ...

El televisor (1974)

Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction. ...

Legend of Horror (1972)

Legend Of Horror was cobbled together from an Argentinian Edgar Allan Poe adaptation called Obras Maestras del Terror (the flashback sequence transforms into "The Tell-Tale Heart") and some American wrap-around footage from 1966. ...

El guión (1970)

A lonely writer one day meets a prostitute to whom he offers his money in exchange for her time and friendship. However, she begins to tire of him when his economy declines, so he must get money at all costs. Pilot episode of a series that was not broadcas ...

The House That Screamed (1969)

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son. ...

Historia de la frivolidad (1967)

The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s. ...

El último reloj (1964)

In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide him with a home and a job. ...

Masterworks of Terror (1960)

Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of wine and a meditated revenge; and a heart that refuses to stop beating. ...

Berenice (1959)

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina ...

Ligeia (1959)

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina. ...

El pionero: el cine parapsicológico de Sebastià D'Arbó (2018)

Cult of Terror (2017)

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic ci ...

Narciso Ibáñez Serrador: historias para recordar (2017)

How the Uruguayan-Spanish actor, writer, producer and director Narciso «Chicho» Ibáñez Serrador changed forever the way of producing programs for Spanish television. ...

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (2012)

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1920s to the Belgian lesbian vampires in the 1970s, from the black-gloved killers of Italian bloody giallo ...

Coffins of Light (2009)

In December 1974, a Spanish filmmaker named Sergio del Monte died under strange circumstances while shooting his debut film. Only a few people were able to see the footage that had been captured, and they all allegedly went blind or suffered the same fate ...

Nadie inquietó más (2008)

A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of hor ...

Dying of Laughter (1999)

Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows fast, as much as their fame. ...

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)

A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously. ...

País S. A. (1975)

A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist. ...

Los bulbos (1974)

Gianfranco, a peddler, and Lina, his young assistant, arrive in Montepulciano, a small Italian village, where they lure the local children by performing fascinating conjuring tricks. ...

El televisor (1974)

Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction. ...

Legend of Horror (1972)

Legend Of Horror was cobbled together from an Argentinian Edgar Allan Poe adaptation called Obras Maestras del Terror (the flashback sequence transforms into "The Tell-Tale Heart") and some American wrap-around footage from 1966. ...

El guión (1970)

A lonely writer one day meets a prostitute to whom he offers his money in exchange for her time and friendship. However, she begins to tire of him when his economy declines, so he must get money at all costs. Pilot episode of a series that was not broadcas ...

Carola de día, Carola de noche (1969)

Due to the triumph of a revolution, Carola, a young and beautiful heiress to the throne, leaves her country to save her life; but her new existence, constantly watched, threatened by her enemies, subjected to the punctilious demands of her position, bores ...

Masterworks of Terror (1960)

Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of wine and a meditated revenge; and a heart that refuses to stop beating. ...

Todo el año es Navidad (1960)

A celestial envoy comes to Earth to help solve some small conflicts between humans, related to their attitude and relationships. ...

Berenice (1959)

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina ...