Spanish Director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador Will Receive the 2019 Honorary Goya

The Spanish director of fantasy, horror, and science-fiction cinema, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, will receive an Honorary Goya at the 2019 ceremony of the highest honor awarded by the Spanish film industry.

The son of another hugely important figure in the genre, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, with whom he collaborated on several Argentine productions, returned to Spain to work in television, where he did most of his professional work and created a series of horror stories called Historias para no dormir.

He directed his first film in 1969, titled La residencia. His second film, considered one of the most important in the genre within Spanish cinema, the unsettling ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?'

In 2006, he returned to the television series format with the successful Películas para no dormir, in which he collaborated with directors who had acknowledged his influence, such as Álex de la Iglesia, Jaume Balagueró, Mateo Gil, Enrique Urbizu, and Paco Plaza. Ibáñez Serrador directed the segment La culpa.

As a curious fact, in 2012 a Mexican remake of his cult film ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? was released under the title Juego de niños, starring Daniel Giménez Cacho and directed by the mysterious Makinov.

With information from espinof.com, filmaffinity, and imdb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77eOCmTK8w (abre en nueva pestaña)