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Los Espookys review – a wacky wonder of a horror show with Fred Armisen

A group of friends find a market for gruesome ‘dark parties’, in a delightfully creepy Spanish-language comedy that’s unlike anything else on TV

Plenty of new comedies aim for originality, but few reach the heights of individuality that the charming Los Espookys (Sky Comedy) does in its debut. This Spanish-language series is an HBO import which feels quite unlike anything else on television, and it inhabits its own oddball skin so easily that it takes a moment to realise just how slyly surreal and clever it is.

Essentially, it is a workplace comedy, but when that workplace involves using ropes and lighting tricks to spin a “possessed” young girl in midair as she projectile vomits all over a charismatic young priest, you know this is not going to be about hiding staplers in jelly or photocopying one’s body parts. Los Espookys are a group of four goth-adjacent friends who specialise in staging horror scenes. After organising a gruesome quinceañera, where they turn a cake into a rotting mound of flesh, they soon realise there is a market for “dark parties”, and they find a keen selection of people who wish to make any given ordinary scenario into a deeply creepy one.

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