Criticism of stories not to sleep, premiere at Prime Video on November 5

A screeching door introduces a beam of light into a completely dark room. Below appear a few words in a pointy typography that shudder with the desperate cry of a woman: Stories not to sleep . Frozen horror, are shattered and the door closes.

On the day of her, the two rigor rhombuses had to be added. We talked about the 66 and a pioneer series that moved through original scripts of terror stories as recognized as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe.

He had three seasons composed of 18, 8 and 4 episodes respectively, the last launched in 1982, in color and with a television scenario very different from that of the first two.

Now, in 2021, we can enjoy four of those rewritten stories to talk about you to the current viewer and make him live an experience, the less, curious. Apuntad this expected return (November 5 at Prime Video) Because, despite arriving and past Halloween Histories not to sleep is one of those series that deserves to dedicate time.

Freddy

André ( Miki Espubé ), is a unfortunate actor who is about to lose the work of him and is also unable to declare himself to the woman of dreams of him ( Adriana Torrebejano ).

By advice shooting at a point without return.

Paco Plaza , which in January 2022 will release its last feature film entitled The grandma , is responsible for the direction of this story that has written together with Alberto Marini ( The unit ) and that it reinvents the episode in part of the same title that opened the season of 82.

It is a piece that has several intentions: On the one hand honor and remember Chicho Ibáñez Servers imagining what the Freddy recording set would be (Carlos Santos deals with transmitting himself in him imitating his particular way of speaking and adopting his scarf White, his pasta goggles and his pure) and transferred to the eighties.

But maybe, beyond how well the atmospheres are and how recognizable it is the humor of the time, the most interesting of Freddy is that with a final twist we wake up curiosity for inquiring In the why of that change of title of the original movie. It is a singular metalanguage exercise and one of the most interesting pieces of this collection.

The joke

The joke was part of the first season of stories for sleep , so that he saw the light in 1966 with a script written by Chicho Ibáñez Server based on the idea of ​​the American writer Robert Arthur .

Here he is reformulated to tell a similar but different story in which we are recorded for two premises on fire: Who laughs the last, laughs better and Revenge is a cold dish .

In essence, what happens is that a woman and her lover plan to end the husband of the first, an inveterate joker willing to take her hair until the last breath of her ...

Undoubtedly, we are facing the episode that has a more attractive cast: Eduard Fernández, Nathalie Poza and Raúl Arévalo make up the protagonist trio and each and every one of them embroider their papers. It is a classical story, but it works very well.

The script and the address are in charge of a Cortés Rodrigo ( Blackwood ) that allows them to disengage on the screen and show themselves to show how the passion, but also hatred and greed are capable of corroding the characters in history . And it is that, in the end, there is nothing that gives more fear than a short-term laughter.

the asphalt.

We are before the simplest story of this reissue of stories so as not to sleep , but it is not less interesting. A dealer faces a normal day when the wheels of the bicycle are literally welded to the asphalt of any street.

From the walls, the posters seem to scrutinize him sternly. At first nobody pays attention and there is even those who think that what happens is part of an advertising campaign, but when our protagonist continues to sink the means come to feeding on the morbid and the security forces try to rescue him before the crowd.

The address of Paula Ortiz ( The Bride ) marks this fantastic cut proposal, with a script of Manuel Jabois and Rodrigo Cortés and with participation as protagonists of Dani Rovira E Inma costs .

The original story was the last episode of the first season and was written by Chicho based on a microorelate of Carlos Buiza. Needless to say, it has a fairly important social reading of what happens, that in the 2021 narrative is underlined and updated ... but as we do not want to talk about more, we set up to enjoy the episode.

The double

We moved to a world that runs in the near future in which health is in the point of sight (postpandemic society). The development of artificial intelligence and synthetic products makes it possible for people with resources to have doubles to carry out those tasks that are given to them or who give them laziness.

A couple, which goes through a huge crisis, will seek in this solution a way to rescue their relationship and even rethink it from their foundations to work.

The last of these new stories not to sleep reinvent the seventh episode of the first season of the series that had a script written by Chicho based on the story Marionettes, Inc. of Ray Bradbury . On this occasion Rodrigo Sorogoen Directs and coescribes the episode along with Daniel Remón .

And the idea of ​​him, although part of the same base, is even more tetric and lugubrious. It is also the longest episode overcoming the time of duration and also the closest to science fiction.

However, despite the ambitious production design, to be honest, it is the coldest and even boring of the lot, despite having two main interpreters as solvents as Vicky Luengo and David Verdaguer . The reason is that it does not end up exploiting the whole issue of the doubles and gives an enormous prominence to the couple drama ... leaving a lot of fringes without an answer.

With everything and with it, it is necessary to point out that it does not get up to the story so that we feel close to the dehumanized, uneven and a mood that is portrayed and that it is not at all alien.

As you can see, stories not to sleep it has been able to reinvent yourself well: it maintains the essence and naive dot of the fantastic stories of all life and, thanks to the format of anthology, it also allows each narrative that runs on the key that You need to develop: Thriller, science fiction or even supernatural dyes. Everything is worth to make us shudder on the couch.

At the moment it is unknown if there will be a second season in this new era, but given the versatility of the format, it would be a story worthy of celebration. And walk that there is no talent that could be thrown out! The combination of consecrated firms and new voices is stimulating.