COMMON WEALTH is a horror film about neighbors. It combines claustrophobic suspense with domestic action and high doses of human tragedy with lots of twisted humour.

The heroine is Julia, a forty-ish woman who works selling apartments for a property developer. When she finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's apartment, she has no choice but to confront the anger of the rather offbeat residents' association, headed by its unscrupulous administrator. Black humour gives way to suspense, followed by terror and finally to straightforward action.

Alex de la Iglesia (Bilbao, 1965) has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Deusto. He does role-play games, draws cartoons, and is a big eater, a party organizer and a TV zapping champion, but he earns his living by writing and directing films. His filmography includes: MUTANT ACTION, THE DAY OF THE BEAST, PERDITA
DURANGO, DYING OF LAUGHTER and COMMON WEALTH. He has written a novel, "Payasos en la lavadora", which was published by Planeta. He has spent a long time preparing himself for his total and absolute domination of Planet Earth.