Los Clarines del Miedo (The Bugles of Fear) is a Spanish bullfighting picture. So what else is new? Well, it happens that the film goes to great lengths to deglamorize bullfighting, showing it up for what it is: a debilitating, heartbreaking profession with as much sordidness and back-stabbing as any form of show business. Francisco Rabal stars as Aceituno, a matador whose momentary lapse into cowardice in the bullring sets off a chain reaction of unrelenting tragedy. The "triumphant" ending in no way dilutes the impact of what has gone before. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi