The Spirit of the Beehive
Oct 08, 1973 | IMDB 7.6
97 min Watch NowDrama, Fantasy
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
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