Update on Adrián García Bogliano's 36 STEPS (36 PASOS)
FOR TRAILERS & CLIP, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE
"Gorehounds, asshounds: Run, don't walk, to this budget-conscious and kooky but surprisingly effective slasher flick from the director of [Rooms for Tourists (Habitaciones para turistas)], an Argentine favorite from 2005's [Cine Las Americas] festival. [García] Bogliano layers familiar horror motifs with a critique of women's oppression, albeit one accompanied by gynecologically intimate low angles of half-wedgied bikini bottoms and all manner of graphic violence: strobe-lit torture montages, branding, and a choreographed dance sequence. [García] Bogliano's girls frolic in the garden hose in winking slo-mo sequences, but soon enough we see that in their poolside vacation house they are kept captive like Troma babes in a pervy zoo exhibit. The rules - silence, obedience, and happiness - are enforced by a club-wielding, 300-pound man-boy who chops off fingers. Having thus inculpated the voyeuristic, sadistic, and presumably male gaze of his audience, [García] Bogliano cranks up the camp, speeding toward a splatter finale competently stylized after the pulpy mayhem of giallo and 'killer party' slashers like My Bloody Valentine. Let's not call it feminist, but there is something recognizably anti-patriarchal and satirical in the way the women are trained to a whistle and forced to smile and act nice, then pitted against one another for survival." - The Austin Chronicle
Twitch, in association with GOMORRAHY.com, is now providing a downloadable QuickTime version of the first teaser trailer for Adrián García Bogliano's black-comedy horror 36 Steps (36 pasos).
36 Steps is scheduled to have its U.S. première at Cine Las Americas (CLA) in Austin, Texas on April 25th at 9:45 p.m.. The movie was produced by Paura Flics (Argentina) in association with Roman Porno Eiga (Spain) and Condor Media (U.S.A.).
The screenplay for 36 Steps was written by Adrián García Bogliano and his older brother Ramiro García Bogliano (a.k.a. the García Bogliano brothers), in collaboration with the late Honorio Valentín Galarza. The movie stars Noelia Balbo, Inés Sbarra, Ariana Marchioni, Melisa Fernández, Priscila Rauto, Andrea Duarte, Priscila Caldera, Victoria Witemburg, Alejandro Noto, Ana Haramboure, Omar Musa, Sabino Molina, and Fernando Roa.
Here's a description of 36 Steps from the CLA website: "Six young women plan an important birthday party at a vacation home. Tension mounts as it becomes clear that their lives depend on the success of the celebration. The Virgin Suicides meets Battle Royale."
For more information on 36 Steps, see ScreenAnarchy's fourth, third, second, and first articles on it.
Adrián García Bogliano's other directing credits include I'll Never Die Alone (No moriré sola), Night Yell (Grité una noche), Rooms for Tourists (Habitaciones para turistas) - which, as was previously reported here on ScreenAnarchy, is being remade for the American market - and Riddlebox (Caja de acertijos).
36 Steps teaser trailer #1 (Spanish w/o subtitles; downloadable 3.4 MB MOV file)
YouTube: 36 Steps teaser trailer #1 page (trailer is in Spanish w/o subtitles)
YouTube: 36 Steps teaser trailer #2 page (trailer has no dialogue)
YouTube: 36 Steps clip page (clip is in Spanish w/ English subtitles)
