BLACK CIRCLE: Adrian Garcia Bogliano Takes His Horror To Sweden With Christina Lindberg

With his latest, deviously disturbing horror film, Scherzo Diabolico, now infecting VOD platforms everywhere, writer/director Adrian Garcia Bogliano is plotting his next move. And it's taking him to Sweden.

Christina Lindberg -- yes, that Christina Lindberg, the one who memorably starred in Thriller/They Call Her One-Eye (1973).and inspired Quentin Tarantino to make Kill Bill -- will star in the film, titled Black Circle. The film "follows the story of two sisters whose lives change dramatically after going through hypnosis using a mysterious vinyl album recorded in the 1970's."

It's of note that the filmmaker is also a huge aficionado of music from that period, hosting a radio show that, whenever I've listened to it (in Spanish), is enlightening and features a frightfully weird selection of unknown pleasures. Speaking exclusively to ScreenAnarchy, he added:

"It's an independent, high concept horror film. Black Circle is a drama with supernatural elements. It's a film driven by a psychological conflict that becomes visible, tangible and extremely dangerous. Being a fan of the horror genre, I always try to use it as a springboard for themes that I'm interested in portraying. In this case my focus is on the ideals of perfection and success and the loss of our essence trying to achieve those goals. It's also about the struggle with the worst, most horrifying part of our nature once it surfaces."

Here's the official statement:

Mikko Aromaa's Finnish production company Tenebrae Enterprises has joined the production team for Late Phases and Here Comes the Devil helmer Bogliano's new project Svart Cirkel (Black Circle), the Swedish language supernatural horror film ready to start production this summer in Stockholm. The title will be distributed in Finland by Aromaa's Night Visions Distribution, a distribution label of Scandinavia's biggest genre film festival Night Visions.

Rickard Gramfors and his partner Bo Gramfors are producing the film for Sweden's Klubb Super 8 in their first approach to genre film in association with Scherzo Diabolico's producer Andrea Quiroz Hernandez with her Mexican company Salto de Fe Films.