Product Details

• Actors: Eduard Fernández, Victor Clavijo, Mariana Cordero, Juan Galván, Elvira DeArmiñán
• Directors: F. Javier Gutiérrez
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: November 3, 2009
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002M36R5K
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #37,705 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Before the Fall" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

From Executive Producer Antonio Banderas comes an apocalypse thriller like no other: When the governments of all nations announce that a giant meteorite will collide with Earth in 72 hours, humanity erupts in chaos and despair. But in the small Spanish village of Laguna, slacker handyman Alejandro (Victor Clavijo) now faces an even more immediate horror: A notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and vowed revenge on Alejandro s mother, nieces and nephews. There are only three days left until Armageddon. How do you protect the people you love from the inevitable end of the world? Mariana Cordero (Princesas) co-stars in this stunning drama from co-writer/director F. Javier Guitérrez that Cult Reviews calls one of the most emotionally unsettling and hauntingly beautiful movies we ve ever seen. Before The Fall is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Unique Post-Nuke Gem, September 9, 2009

By	Brian Lueth "WildsideCinema.com" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Not content to just end the world or just offer up a psycho thriller, F. Javier Gutierrez combines the most terrifying and thrilling from both and the result is every bit as tense, disturbing and original as one could hope for. The character of Ale is hard to like but even harder not to admire when he places himself at risk for the safety of others. You find yourself disliking him for being an asshole and loving him for showing such sacrifice and bravery.

Before The Fall is deep, emotionally-charged and captivating. It's so refreshing to see genre cinema with this kind of heart; it's a damn shame Hollywood won't stick its neck out to fund anything this original. I know there's an English language remake, with Wes Craven attached, on the way but that just don't count as original.

First Timecrimes, now this? Before The Fall wasn't flashy or bloated with CG, its thought-provoking sci-fi with stylish touches of two-fisted American western/action cinema combined with the beautiful aesthetic we've come to expect from Spanish cinema. I highly recommend Before The Fall, as a purchase.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic Drama, October 26, 2009

By	Russell Keller "Breetai" (So Cal) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

WOW! This was an unexpectedly fantastic gem at Screamfest 2009. The Writer/Director answered Audience Questions after the movie and said the Movie was hard to categorize because it had the scifi backdrop with the incoming asteroid, but there's no doubt in my mind this was a Drama. This was way too emotionally griping to to not be my movie of the year.