First Stills From Elio Quiroga's Spanish Ghost Story No-Do
Apparently Spanish director Elio Quiroga likes to keep busy. It seems like he just wrapped work on his recent sci-fi action horror La Hora Fria - plenty on that in the ScreenAnarchy archive - and already word is out that he's wrapping photography on another project, this one a ghost story titled No-Do.
With a story that revolves around ghosts, the Spanish civil war, and a series of secret, hidden documentary films the basic synopsis sounds equal parts Flicker and The Devil's Backbone, here's the relevant bits of the press release:
Shot in Spanish with substantial high-tech effects, "NO-DO" is a horror story in which a woman sees ghosts. The explanation to their appearance lies in an old NO-DO newsreel (i.e., one of the state-sanctioned documentaries made during Franco's regime).
The film speculates around the little known "Secret NO-DOs", made in the 40s for the Catholic Church in Spain. It is told that those confidential films were used by exorcists to document supernatural events using a special film emulsion designed for this purpose. Some "Secret NO-DOs" are rumored to be stored in subterranean vaults in the Congregazione del Santo Uffizio, Rome, but its existence is officialy denied by catholic church leaders.
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