Latin Beat: Trailer For Peruvian Horror LA ENTITAD, Plus Top 10 Highest-Grossing Mexican Movies

Peruvian Horror LA ENTIDAD Releases A New Full-Length Trailer
By Ernesto Zelaya Miñano

Back in September, a teaser trailer was released for next year’s La Entidad, the latest stab by a Peruvian filmmaker at the horror genre. Nothing much was known about the movie then, other than it was director Eduardo Schuldt’s jump to horror films after working in animated films like The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer (2009) and Freedom Force (2013), and that it featured a lot of creepy stuff happening at a cemetery.

Now, a new, full-length trailer has been released, and it gives a much better idea of what the movie is about. It’s another entry in the found footage genre, obviously taking a page from 2013’s Cementerio General, already the forebearer of these types of movies in Peru. While similar in some ways, this looks a bit more brutal and bloody in its intentions, as well as more CGI-heavy.

Local film news website Cinencuentro provides a synopsis:

"Four film students working on a documentary about Internet discover that all their subjects are deceased; their investigation takes them into the depths of the so-called 'Deep Web' (a non-indexed part of cyberspace housing illegal material), where a supernatural curse is unleashed upon them."

Billed as the country’s first 3D horror movie, La Entidad opens in January 2015. Watch the new trailer below.

LA ENTIDAD

A still from La Entitad, due for release in Peru in January 2015.

The 10 Highest-Grossing Mexican Movies Of 2014
By Eric Ortiz Garcia

Canacine (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Cinematográfica y del Videograma) revealed some days ago their official 2014 report, which had all the information regarding movie theater attendance and other important stats for the Mexican film industry.

In said report it was confirmed which were the 10 highest-grossing Mexican movies of the year. Three Mexican films surpassed the $100 million pesos mark: Luis Estrada’s sociopolitical satire The Perfecta Dictatorship, the Martha Higareda starring comedy Get Married If You Can, and the Cantinflas biopic (which is also Mexico’s entry for the Academy Awards).

The rest of the list doesn’t really represent the best of the year for Mexican cinema, as it includes such silly efforts as the 3D remake of Darker Than Night, the animated flick La Leyenda de las Momias, and Emilio Portes’ disappointing El Crimen del Cácaro Gumaro. Popularity is different from quality, indeed. But it’s always interesting to see which national movies the Mexican audience accepted, as next year we will probably have similar stuff in consequence. Check the full list below (there’s a link to a review whenever possible):

10. Perfect Obedience (dir. Luis Urquiza)

Revenue: $28.14 MDP (around $2 million US-dollars)

9. Amor de mis Amores (dir. Manolo Caro)

Revenue: $28.57 MDP (around $2 million US-dollars)

8. El Crimen del Cácaro Gumaro (dir. Emilio Portes)

Revenue: $62.79 MDP (around $4 million US-dollars)

My review

7. Guten Tag, Ramón (dir. Jorge Ramírez Suárez)

Revenue: $63.81 MDP (around $4 million US-dollars)

6. Darker Than Night (dir. Henry Bedwell)

Revenue: $68.51 MDP (around $4 million US-dollars)

My review

5. ¿Qué le Dijiste a Dios (dir. Teresa Suarez)

Revenue: $68.88 MDP (around $4 million US-dollars)

4. La Leyenda de las Momias (dir. Alberto Rodríguez)

Revenue: $91.12 MDP (around $6 million US-dollars)

My review

3. Cantinflas (dir. Sebastián del Amo)

Revenue: $127.39 MDP (around $9 million US-dollars)

My review

2. Get Married If You Can (dir. Marco Polo Constandse)

Revenue: $168.39 MDP (around $11 million US-dollars)

My review

1. The Perfect Dictatorship (dir. Luis Estrada)

Revenue: $186.53 MDP (around $13 million US-dollars)