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| Director: | Zoe Berriatúa | ||
| Screenplay: | Zoe Berriatúa | ||
| Editing: | Emilio González | ||
| Cinematography: | Iván Román | ||
| Distributor: | Sony Pictures Releasing | ||
| Country: | Spain | ||
| Language: | Spanish |
The Heroes of Evil (Spanish; Castilian: '''Los héroes del mal'''|links=no) is a 2015 Spanish teen drama film written and directed by (in his directorial debut feature) which stars Emilio Palacios, Jorge Clemente and Beatriz Medina.
Outcast teenagers Esteban, Sarita and Aritz, sharing a common context of humiliation by their classmates meet, develop a strong friendship and plot to exert revenge.
The film is a Nadie es Perfecto, La Bestia Produce and Pokeepsie Films production.
The film was presented at the 18th Málaga Film Festival on 18 April 2015.[1] It was also part of the slate of the Moscow International Film Festival, the and the Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival.[2] [3] Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing,[4] it was released theatrically in Spain on 11 September 2015.
Mirito Torreiro of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars deeming it to be a product "a product with a certain suicidal vocation", which "hardly pays attention to any commerciality".[5]
Sergio F. Pinilla of Cinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars writing that the triangle developed between the characters played by Clemente, Palacios, and Medina ("the latter two magnificent, the former overacted") "is beautiful".[6]
Jordi Costa of El País considered that while "the film is not rounded and at times comes across as crude and somewhat sloppy", it "manages to take its premise to its most unbreathable extremes".[7]