"CODEX ATANICUS" (1995-1999)

 

Cult & Bizarre Film

 

Three wacky weird, bizarre, odd, violent, unusual, transgressive, disturbing and erotic films. Not suitable neither for any mind nor stomach.

Metaminds and Metabodies passes in the Hell's anteroom, at this side of the mirror through which one day abominable beings will enter and will conquer the Earth, fulfilling Yellow Emperor's prophecy. Morfing is a delirious trip for the quasi-infernal independent cinema underworld. Welcome to Spain is a decrease to a total Hell where those that have not been invited to the party eat rusty nails. Metaminds and Metabodies, Morfing and Welcome to Spain (together with a milky introduction by actress Arantxa Peña) shape the CODEX ATANICUS.

If Carlos Atanes was not so worthy and nice we would think that he's a dangerous madman, since only from a disturbed mind should sprout the ghosts that appear in this trilolgy of bizarre, unclassifiable and damned shortfilms (1995-1999) opportunely assembled in this selection. Damned, yes: scarcely seen in 1990's, they were just projected in alternative places (where more than one ashtray was smashed against the screen), they provoked the explicit rejection from all the TV channels which they were proposed to and only Welcome to Spain was repudiated by more than 30 international film festivals.

Nevertheless, since they have been presented together the audience and critics reaction has been almost unanimous on both Atlantic Ocean's shores: CODEX ATANICUS deserves be seen, and already it's a cult film. For many motives: the skinned singer recital, the throwing fetus, the intolerable orgy at the stairs, the pork's feet snack, the wacky dialogs and, certainly, the first bukkake scene ever filmed for a not pornographic movie (and the first one filmed in Spain), a sequence systematicly banned in Internet which can be at last entirely enjoyed in this DVD.

A wacky film feast for gourmets of the bizarre cinema.














"CODEX ATANICUS" DVD is available on Amazon.com
  Cast: Arantxa Peña, Manel Solàs, Antonio Vladimir and many more
Music by Xavier Tort and Carlos Atanes
Produced byKalashnifilms + Atanes / Dogma Final
Written and directed by Carlos Atanes
 
Film Anthology (introduction + three shortfilms)
80 min.
Fantasy / Horror / Black comedy
Shooting: 1995 - 1999 / Compilation: 2007
 
     
 




"CODEX ATANICUS" REVIEWS:

366 WEIRD MOVIES
B MOVIE MAN
BAD LIT: THE JOURNAL OF UNDERGROUND FILM
GOREHOUNDS UNITE!
EVILDREAD
FILM FANADDICT
HORRORPHILIA
HORROR SOCIETY
FILM ARCADE
(RE) SEARCH MY TRASH
MONDO DIGITAL
BLAIRWITCH.DE
EXTRAORDINARY MOVIES & VIDEO GUIDE
FILM BIZARRO


"CODEX ATANICUS" FILES:

STRANGE AND DISTURBING (Interview)

















 
 
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"If you are a fan of David Lynch, or simply wish to have a new and original cinema experience, check out Carlos Atanes’ film collection CODEX ATANICUS."
(Nic Brown, B Movie Man)
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Covered cum bukkake scene ("CODEX ATANICUS")


 
"Certainly the perfect title for those who think they’ve seen it all."
(Mondo Digital)
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Tavern scene ("CODEX ATANICUS"
 
"CODEX ATANICUS was a very good experience into the world of bizarre storytelling and surreal imagery that kept me glued to the screen."
(Anthony Thurber, Film Arcade)
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"The director of these wild and crazy fucked up movies can best be described as the next David Lynch with a little bit of David Cronenberg thrown in for good measure."

(Gorehounds Unite!)
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Bizarro hasta en los besos ("CODEX ATANICUS")










""Codex Atanicus" is a collection of the three most twisted short films by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. The three shorts, "Metaminds & Metabodies", "Morfing" and "Welcome to Spain" will take you into a movie universe few people have found before."
(Ronny Carlsson, Film Bizarro)
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weird movie CODEX ATANICUS frame













"Carlos Atanes seems to be an uncompromising director, who doesn't take the easy way out. That is the big part (along with the bunch of great actors and actresses) of extraordinary feel that gushes from Atanes' intriguing low-budget or no-budget films. Even the grainy image of video camera fits perfectly into the bizarre imagery. There are no holds barred, so you have been warned."
(Esa Linna, Extraordinary Movies & Video Guide)
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"A feature film, one of which should probably not be viewed unless drunk, on drugs or deranged. It is a little bit Fellini, a little bit Ed Wood, a little bit John Waters and all weird."
(Dale Pierce, (Re) Search My Trash)
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"Atanes proudly follows in the footsteps of fellow Spanish surrealist filmmakers Luis Bunuel and Fernando Arrabal and has crafted a trio of bizarrely demented short films."

(Mike Everleth, Bad Lit)
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"Definitely not a story collection for everyone. Carlos Atanes makes completely strange scenarios very interesting with his powerful visuals. While I though this would be some crappy experimental wannabe art master piece, I must say that I quite enjoyed it. This is the first thing I need to show to my movie watching buddies."
(Berislav Kucan, Evildread)
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"Come one come all to this twisted festival of fucked up fun!"
(The Angry Princess, Horror Society)
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"Atanes has a unique and powerful cinematic vision"
(David Carter, Film Fanaddict )
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"it’s more of a revival of classical European arthouse surrealism than it is a continuation of newer, punkier trends in underground film."
(Greg Smalley, 366 Weird Movies)
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Carlos Atanes is an underground filmmaker and playwright. He has directed a lot of dystopian, esoteric, weird and disturbing films known as atanic films. If you wish to enter his world, you can't miss the shortfilms anthology Codex Atanicus (1995-1999), the book Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell and the feature-length movies FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004), PROXIMA (2007) and Maximum Shame (2010), all of them available on DVD. Go for a walk through this website and you'll enjoy other atanic works, texts and interviews.
 
Maximum Shame DVD PROXIMA DVD FAQ DVD Codex Atanicus DVD
     
 
"MAXIMUM SHAME" (81 min., 2010)
An apocalyptic fetish horror musical chess sci-fi weird feature movie
  "PROXIMA" (116 min., 2007)
The last Sci-Fi movie
     
 
"FAQ" (82 min., 2004)
A dystopia of women
  "CODEX ATANICUS" (1995/1999)
An introduction + three bizarre shortfilms
     
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