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Possession and exorcism, witches and resurrections, suicide and murder, red-clad cardinals and the Pope himself, all soon factor into 30 Coins, which revolves around a secret Catholic cult of Cainites-led by a fiend from Vergara’s past-who covet Judas’ 30 coins because they believe any items that caused Christ pain contain immense spiritual power. Iglesia grounds his wild material in soap opera terrain, and then embellishes it with all manner of CGI-enhanced lunacy, striking an assured balance between heated melodrama and gruesome horror. The central romantic dynamic concerns Paco and Elena’s budding amour, which is complicated by his marriage to jealous Merche and her strange marital circumstances-her husband went mysteriously missing two years earlier-and growing bond with wealthy playboy Roque (Antonio Velázquez).

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Yet before anything can become too clear, 30 Coins partakes in lots more outrageousness, including a ouija board séance that causes one teenager, Sole (Carla Tous), to disappear and then reappear as a self-mutilating demon, and a magic mirror full of nefarious reflections with a mind of their own-as well as the image of a book dubbed “Gospel by Judas.” As relayed by a credit sequence that depicts the treacherous disciple receiving 30 pieces of silver for his betrayal of Jesus (who grins maniacally at his former friend from the cross), that infamous biblical traitor is central to these proceedings-or rather his cursed bounty is, since everything here has to do with a malevolent cabal trying to acquire Vergara’s historically important money.ģ0 Coins’ premiere wastes no time getting to the bonkers good stuff, moving at a feverish pitch even as it establishes its many characters, who also include Paco’s ambitious and domineering hotel heiress-wife Merche (Macarena Gómez), gross Renfield-esque vagrant Antonio (Javier Bódalo), and police officer Laguna (Pepón Nieto). The cause of this calamity has to do with a coin in Vergara’s possession. And things get decidedly weirder once the tyke is put in the temporary care of a couple still grieving the death of their own child, and the surrogate mother becomes particularly attached to the infant-who, in mere days, grows first into a giant, veiny mutant toddler, and then into an enormous spider creature hellbent on destruction. Such a development naturally stuns everyone, including mayor Paco (Miguel Ángel Silvestre). That manifests itself early, when local veterinarian Elena (Megan Montaner) tends to a pregnant cow, only to pull a human baby out of the animal’s womb. Manuel is an ex-con, although the trouble he’s brought with him is of a distinctly unholy sort. 4 on HBO, 30 Coins is set in the walled Spanish town of Pedraza, a rustic outpost that’s now home to priest Don Manuel Vergara (Eduard Fernández), a bearded, bald-headed man of the cloth whose back features a giant tattoo of Christ on the cross sandwiched between two self-flagellation scourges, and who spends most of his nights wailing away at a punching bag.

It’s like being on an out-of-control haunted house theme park ride: you just hold on for dear life while the scares batter you about.ĭebuting Jan. The brainchild of director Álex de la Iglesia ( The Day of the Beast, The Last Circus), who helms its entire eight-episode run, this Spanish saga dials itself to eleven from the outset, and then somehow manages to maintain its hysterical horror vibe through an absolute litany of bonkers twists and turns.

Many supernatural shows partake in the crazy, but few do so with the non-stop gusto of 30 Coins, whose maiden season is awash in unhinged religious insanity.

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