The true story of Malasaña 32 –

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If you want to know the story of a cursed building, you may be interested in the story of Malasaña 32, which recently inspired a movie that was very successful at the box office and caused a lot to talk about. A film based on a story based on real events that we will explain in detail below so that you can compare it with what is narrated in fiction. This is, the true story of Malasaña 32.

What happened in Malasaña 32

Albert Pintó is the director of the film «Malasana 32» that released in theaters is now news again because it is available on Netflix. A dark scary story apparently based on the events that occurred in a building on the street Manuela Malasana.

The film focuses its plot on a family who left town in the 70s to go live in the capital. The whole family lives in a flat on Calle de Manuela Malasaña 32, where a strange presence begins to haunt them. It is said that everything about the film’s story is based on real events, but the truth is that we have to qualify this statement since there was no royal family who lived in the same building.

In fact Manuela Malasaña street does not have a number 32since it only reaches number 30, but Yes, it is true that in the past several mysterious events occurred in the surroundings of the Malasaña neighborhood which somehow inspired the idea of ​​the film.

The mysteries of Antonio Grilo street

It was exactly in the Antonio Grilo street where various events shrouded in mystery took place for decades, giving the Malasaña neighborhood an aura of terror that frightened more than one neighbor. In fact, This street in Malasaña is the street in Madrid with the most deaths per square meter.

Of all the mysteries accumulated in the Antonio Grilo streetthe most notorious of all was a parricide committed in 1962when a tailor named José María Ruiz Martínez, 45, killed his wife and five children before committing suicide.

Ruiz Martínez lived in 3ºD of number 3 Antonio Grilo street with his 40-year-old wife and their children aged 14, 12, 10, 5 and 2, whom he did not hesitate to kill when apparently he went bankrupt. The crime was prominent news when it occurred as the tailor not only killed each member of his family in a different way (with a hammer, a knife or a gun), but once killed, he took them out on the balcony to shout to all the neighbors what he had done to them. Shortly after he committed suicide.

On the other hand, in this same street he was found a graveyard of baby fetuses in the caves of the cellar located at number 9. Apparently some 100 human fetuses were found, giving rise to the discovery that there had been an illegal abortion clinic after the Civil War.

Another of the mysteries in this street dates from the month of November 1945, when the police found the body of Felipe Breña Marcos, a 48-year-old shirtmaker, at number 1 D.

The man’s body had a blow to the head.. The murder weapon had supposedly been a chandelier, and the motive for murdering him: a robbery, but three years later another body was found. It was in September 1948, when another man was found again with his head smashed in.

And that’s not all, that same house welcomed the murder of a baby in April 1964at the hands of his mother. The death of the little boy was a mystery since there were many rumors at the time, although it was said on the one hand that the baby had been found hanging from a hanger, while other stories told that the baby had been found inside a drawer. .

But the black chronicle of this street began long before, when Antonio Grilo was known as Calle de las Beatas during the 18th century, and it was at that time that a man was apparently found in the middle of the street murdered and with a trail of blood that led to the nearby churches. After the police investigation, it was concluded that the victim was a gardener from the neighborhood who would have threatened the priest of San Martín to make public that he had relations with a girl.

Malasaña 32 in the cinema

All this that we have told you, and other stories involving the Malasaña neighborhood, would have served as breeding ground to make a film that we will see in January 2023

“Malasaña 32” is the film by Albert Pintó (“Killing God”), produced by Warner Bros Spain, Atresmedia Cine and Bambú Producciones, which set in 1976, tells the story of a country family that moves to the city.

Installed in a flat at number 32 on Calle de Manuela Malasaña, His life goes by in an apparently normal way until he cStrange phenomena begin to occur that makes them lose sleep.

begona vargas (“High Seas”) is the protagonist. She gives life to the hmiddle sister of the Olmedo family and in her chores is taking care of her siblings, something that does not fit too well with her ideal of living in the city to find new dreams. ivan marcos (“Farina”), He is the father, Although strict, he is a very good person, while Bea Segura (“The hunt. Monteperdido”), gives life to the mother who is characterized by being very fearful. The youngest son, is played by Ivan Renedo while the older brother, who stutters and has various traumas, is played by Sergio Castellanos (“Plague”).

The cast is completed with José Luis de Madariaga (“Hierro”), María Ballesteros (“Que Dios nos perdone”), Rosa Álvarez, as well as Javier BotetSpanish actor who has worked on other horror titles, some of them international hits such as “IT”, “IT: Chapter 2”, “Warren File: The Enfield Case””, “Mom” or “Rec”.

The film, as we say, will not arrive until the beginning of 2023, but everything indicates that it will cause many people to go to the Malasaña neighborhood to see if what is told in the film is true or not.