{"id":237,"date":"2008-02-22T21:25:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/22\/pure-spanish-cheese-with-zombies-and-giant-monsters\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T21:09:59","slug":"pure-spanish-cheese-with-zombies-and-giant-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/22\/pure-spanish-cheese-with-zombies-and-giant-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Spanish extravagence, with zombies and giant monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Wars<\/em> meets the peplum genre epitomised in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sword_and_sandal#Maciste_Series_.281960-1965.29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Maciste<\/em>,<\/a> they go on a date and then give birth to a mutant version of <em>Krull<\/em> (1983). That&#8217;s <strong>The Baron Against the Demons<\/strong> [aka El Bar\u00f3n contra los Demonios] (Spain-2006; dir. Ricardo Ribelles) &#8212; a Spanish scifi sword-and-sorcery fantasy featuring giant monsters, alien puppets, gigantic chests (both sexes), really big spaceships, swishing swords, evil zombies, diabolic overlords &#8230; in short, everything an avid schlock fantasy fan might desire.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the official &#8220;retro&#8221; trailer:<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bGHrIdrudj0&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bGHrIdrudj0&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>But this one doesn&#8217;t really give you a sense of what&#8217;s in store, giant-monster wise. For that, try this one: <center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ap8BHEj6gaU&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ap8BHEj6gaU&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>If nothing else, it seems totally unfit for the lactose-intolerant.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official <a href=\"http:\/\/alliedentertainment.com\/baron.php\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, with all the cheesy details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars meets the peplum genre epitomised in Maciste, they go on a date and then give birth to a mutant version of Krull (1983). That&#8217;s The Baron Against the Demons [aka El Bar\u00f3n contra los Demonios] (Spain-2006; dir. Ricardo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/22\/pure-spanish-cheese-with-zombies-and-giant-monsters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4,44,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}