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Álex de la Iglesia (born December 4, 1965) is a Spanish film director.

Most De la Iglesia's films reached cult status thanks to their weird sense of humour.

Biography

Alex de la Iglesia was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1965. He is a philosophy graduate from a Catholic university who ended up working in the comic book field at a young age. He had a brief stint in television before finding work as artistic director on Enrique Urbizu's Todo por la pasta. Urbizu has made a number of crime thrillers and comedies but also, most interestingly, is credited as a co-screenwriter on Roman Polanski's horror film, The Ninth Gate.

De la Iglesia then took part in the short film, Mama (1988), a homage to American B-movies by Pablo Berger. This little seen short film focuses on a family forced to live in a basement after a nuclear war and features a little boy who wears a Batman costume. This short anticipates the science fiction-horror of Accion Mutante. He then met Jose Guerricaechevarria and together they made the short film, Mirindas Asesinas (1991), in which a boring man, whose mind is gradually degenerating, is on the verge of becoming a psychotic killer. The two men became fast friends and have worked together ever since, writing the screenplays to every one of De La Iglesia's films.

Filmography

Acción mutante ('Mutant Action', 1993)
El día de la bestia
('The Day of the Beast', 1995)
Perdita Durango ('Dance with the Devil', 1997)
Muertos de risa ('Dying of Laughter ', 1999)
La Comunidad ('Common Wealth', 2000)
800 balas ('800 Bullets', 2002)
Crimen ferpecto ('Ferpect Crime', 2004)
Los Increíbles (The Incredibles
Spanish version)
Oxford Crimes (pre-production 2006)

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