Like Zulueta, Pere Portabella is a major figure of Spanish cinema whose contributions have taken place at irregular intervals and in a variety of roles, including as the director of a number of films from the 1960s and 1970s that blend experimental filmmaking with documentary and fiction. Filmed on the set of Jess Franco’s Count Dracula, Portabella’s Cuadecuc, vampir mixes making-of footage with an investigation of the figure of the vampire. Both playful and deadly serious, with high-contrast black-and-white cinematography and an electronic soundtrack, the film asks us to consider the undead as a stand-in for both Generalissimo Franco, the bloodthirsty avatar of a fascism that won’t die, and cinema, the art that reanimates the dead.