Morbido 2018: Festival Lineup and Guest List Announced!

Morbido Film Fest 2018 opens its 11th edition in Mexico City.

 

CDMX, October 2018. Grupo Morbido’s CEO Pablo Guisa Koestinger presented all guest and programming for the 11th edition of Morbido Film Fest to be held from October 31st to November 10th.

 

Special guests: Peter Medak, director of “The Changeling”; David Gregory, distributor of “The Changeling”; Ashley Laurence, actress of “Hellraiser” and “Hellbound, Hellraiser II”; Dominik Hartl, Austrian director of “Party Hard, Die Young”; Jon Schnitzer, director of “Haunters: The Art Of The Scare”; Jenn Wexler director of “The Ranger”; Heather Buckley, producer of “The Ranger”; Justin McConnell, director of “Lifechanger”; Avi Federgreen, producer of "Lifechanger"; Paulo Biscaia Filho, director of “Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains”; Paco Plaza, director of “REC” and “La posesión de Verónica”; Ezequiel Endelman y Leandro Montejano, directors of “Mirada de Cristal”; Camila Pizzo, actress of “Mirada de Cristal”; Seth Michaels, actor and producer of “St. Agatha”; Carlos Vermut, director of “Quien te cantara” and Nathalie Cohen, Italian graphic artist.

 

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Child’s Play” we’ll have Chucky himself and Don Mancini, creator of Chucky.

 

This year Morbido Film Fest 2018 venues will be:  Cinépolis Diana, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Casa del Lago, Metro Zapata, Cinemanía, Centro de Cultura Digital and finally La Feria de Chapultepec joins this year.

 

This year La Feria de Chapultepec sums up as a new venue for the festival, where there will be related events with some of the movies from our selection such as the documentary “Haunters: The Art Of The Scare” from director Jon Schnitzer which shows Haunted Houses culture in The United States.

 

Schnitzer who is the creator of horror attractions, RV and Immersive Experiences for clients such as Tim Burton, Youtube Red Studios and TASCHEN Books, as well as produced ghost illusions in 3D for the first Barack Obama´s Halloween Party at The White House. Jon also directed and produced Flatline Experience, a reality virtual project that brings the audience the opportunity to become active participants on a experience that takes you close to death. This screening will take place next-door La nueva Casona del Terror with Morbido designed for this season. We will give a special tour to all our guests including Chucky for who we have a special surprise. 

 

To celebrate the 200 anniversary of Frankenstein (novel), Morbido Film Fest and Grupo Planeta have a special event at Biblioteca Vasconcelos where Pablo Guisa will interview the monster of Frankenstein to talk about his first 200 years. This event is free and will happen next Saturday November 3rd at 13:00 pm.

 

Celebrating Morbido´s Day, next Sunday 4th of November, Casa del Lago, The Chapultepec Park opens its doors for different activities for all public such as: Puppetry´s play, Latin American witches legends, reading circles, short films screenings, we will be presenting “Cygnus” a new book and our already traditional AAA Lucha Libre show. 

 

As a part of its mission to spread horror, Grupo Morbido launched Morbido TV, Pay TV channel that can already be seen in Mexico and by the end of this month will opens its signal over South America in countries like Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Perú.

 

Morbido Film Fest thanks support to Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Cinemanía, Museo del Juguete Antiguo Mexicano, el Foro Cultural de Austria, el Instituto Italiano de Cultura, la AAA, el Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. 

 

Latin American Feature Films Official Selection for this year are:

 

Abrakadabra

Dir: Luciano Onetti, Nicolas Onetti

Cast: Germán Baudino, María Eugenia Rigón, Gustavo D`Alessandro

Argentina| 2018 | 80 m | color |

 

Anya

Dir: Erik Zavála

Cast: María Fernanda Tovar, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Ricky Gut Mad, Diana Lein

México| 2018 | 90 m | color |

 

El Vampiro del Lago

Dir: Carl Zitelmann

Cast: Miguel Angel Landa, Sócrates Serrano, Eduardo Gulino, Abilio Torres

Venezuela| 2018 | 102 m | color |

 

Fiesta Niburu

Dir: Manuel Facal

Cast: Verónica Dobrich, Luciano Demarco, Emanuel Sobré, Carla Quevedo

Uruguay| 2017 | 71 m | color |

 

Inquilinos

Dir: Chava Cartas

Cast: Danny Perea, Erick Elías, Gabriela Roel, Noé Hernández

México| 2018 | 92m | color |

 

La Casa Lobo

Dir: Cristobal León, Joaquín Cociña

Cast: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause

Chile| 2018 | 75m | color | animación

 

Mirada de cristal

Dir: Ezequiel Endelman, Leandro Montejano

Cast: Silvia Montanari, Anahí Politi, Erika Boveri, Claudio Armesto

Argentina | 2017 | 82m | color |

 

Morto Não Fala (Nightshifter)

Dir: Dennison Ramalho

Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento, Blanca Comparato

Brasil | 2018| 110 m | color |

 

 

Rest of the world Feature Films Official Selection for this year are:

 

CAM

Dir: Daniel Goldhaber, Isa Mazzei

Cast: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid,

EUA| 2018 | 94 m | color |

 

Crisis Jung

Dir: Jeremie Hoarau, Baptiste Gaubert

Cast: Karim Tougui, Pauline Moingeon, Martial Le Minoux

Francia | 2018 | 70 m | color | animación

 

Deadtectives

Dir: Tony West

Cast: Chris Geree David Newman, José María de Tavira, Martha Higareda

EUA | 2018 | 90 m | color |

 

Haunters: The Art of The Scare

Dir: Jon Schnitzer

Cast: Shar Mayer, Donald Julson, Russ McKamey, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska,

EUA | 2017| 88 m | color |

 

One Cut of the Dead

Dir: Shinichiro Ueda

Cast: Yuzuki Akiyama, Takuya Fujimura, Ayana Gôda, Takayuki Hamatsu

Japón | 2017| 97 m | color |

 

Lifechanger

Dir: Justin McConnell

Cast: Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Bill Oberst Jr., Elitsa Bako, Sam James White

Canadá | 2018| 84 m | color |

 

Lucid

Dir: Adam Morse

Cast: Billy Zane, Sadie Frost, Toni Beard, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Cristian Solimeno

Reino Unido | 2018| 86 m | color |

 

Luz

Dir: Tillman Singer

Cast: Luana Veils, Jan Bluthardt, Julia Riedler, Nadja Stübiger, Johannes Benecke

Alemania| 2018| 70 m | color |

 

Mandy

Dir: Panos Cosmatos

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache

EUA | 2018| 121 m | color |

 

Mutafukaz (MFKZ)

Dir: Guillaume Renard, Shojiro Nishimi

Cast: Tay Lee, Mark Ryan Haltom, Ray Chung.

Francia| 2017| 90 m | color | animación

 

Parallel

Dir: Issac Ezban

Cast: Ami Ameen, Martin Wallstrom, Georgia King, Mark O’Brien, Alyssa Diaz

Canadá | 2018| 104 m | color |

 

Party Hard Die Young

Dir: Dominik Harti

Cast: Elisabeth Wabitsch, Antonia Moretti, Alexandra Schmidt, Chantal Pausch, Marlon Boess, Markus Freistätter, Michael Glant Schnig

Austria| 2018| 90 m | color |

 

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

Dir: Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund

Cast: Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Michael Paré, Barbara Crampton, Udo Kier.

EUA| 2018| 84 m | color |

 

Quién te cantará

Dir: Carlos Vermut

Cast: Najwa Nimri, Eva Llorach, Carmen Elìás

España | 2018| 124 m | color |

 

St. Agatha

Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman

Cast: Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy, Courtney Halverson

EUA| 2018| 102 m | color |

 

Starfish

Dir: A.T. White

Cast: Virginia Gardner, Christina Masterson, Eric Beecroft, Natalie Mitchell.

EUA| 2018| 101 m | color |

 

The Changeling

Dir: Peter Medak

Cast: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos

Canadá | 1980| 109 m | color |

 

The Cleaning Lady

Dir: Jon Knautz

Cast: Alexis Kendra, Rachel Alig, Stelio Savante, Elizabeth Sandy,

EUA| 2018| 90 m | color |

 

The Man with the Magic Box

Dir: Bodo Kox

Cast: Olga Boladz, Piotr Polak, Sebastian Stankiewicz

Polonia | 2017| 103 m | color |

 

The Ranger

Dir: Jenn Wexler

Cast: Chloe Levine, Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, Bubba Weiler,

EUA| 2018| 77 m | color |

 

Tumbbad

Dir: Rahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad

Cast: Sohum Shah, Deepak Damle, Harish Khanna, Anita Date, Mohd Samad

India,Suecia | 2018| 104 m | color |

 

Un Couteau dans le Coeur/ La Daga en el Corazón

Dir: Yann Gónzalez

Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury,

Francia | 2018| 110 m | color |

 

Violence Voyager

Dir: Ujicha

Cast: Saki Fujita, Shigeo Takahashi, Naoki Tanaka

Japón | 2018| 84 m | color | animación

 

Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains

Dir: Paulo Biscaia Filho

Cast: Kelsey Pribilski ,Elizabeth Maxwell, Ezekiel Z Swinford, Don Daro

EUA| 2018| 94 m | color |

 

What Keeps you Alive

Dir: Colin Miniham

Cast: Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac

Canadá| 2018| 98 m | color |

 

Mórbido will also present on its selection a total of 64 shortfilms divided by 9 theme blocks of 17 different countries.