SHORT FILMS MÓRBIDO 2019Latin American Short Films SelectionAbove & Below / J. Xavier Velasco / Mexico / 2019Walker, Walker: The legend of Huay Chivo / Luis Quijano / Mexico / 2018Clickbait / Carlos Meléndez / Mexico / 2018Contagium / Lucio Rojas / Chile / 2019Dead Nature / Juan Enrique Villarreal / Mexico / 2018On the Other Side / Facundo Nuble / Argentina / 2019Diabla / Amanda Singer / Mexico / 2019Sleeping Child / Freddy Chavez Olmos / Mexico-Canada / 2019El Cazo / Vadir Sotelo / Mexico / 2019Encerrada / Mateo Miranda Magis / Mexico / 2019Fury / Paulette Lecaros / Chile / 2019Hideouser and Hideouser / Aria Covamonas / Mexico / 2019The Children Will Die / Bernardo Brostein / Argentina / 2019Lapsus / Chiva FM / Mexico / 2019La Solapa / Laura Sanchez Acosta / ArgentinaLimbus / Ruben Zuñiga / Mexico / 2019What is hidden by darkness / Romeo Lopez Aldana / GuatemalaMaraña / Brisa P. Sánchez / Mexico / 2019Mata al Niño / Juan Pablo Villavicen cio / Mexico / 2019Mateo / Fernando PerezGil / Mexico / 2019Phaenicia / Alberto Ordaz / Mexico / 2019Cousins / Federico Gutierrez Abeso / Mexico / 2019What will dragons see in girls like me / Gerard Mates / Mexico / 2019Sed / Michael Milies García / Chile / 2019Vortex / Mauricio Kuri / Mexico / 2019Foreign Short Film SelectionA Little Taste / Victor Català / Spain / 2019Bitter was the Dessert / Diego H. Katarniuk / Spain / 2019Another / Park Yeon / Korea / 2019Bad Hair / Oskar Lehemma / Estonia / 2019Best Friends Forever / Emily Gagne, Joshua Korngut / Canada / 2018Between / María Castillo / Spain / 2019Black Moon / Ryan Graff / Canada / 2019Budfoot / Tim Reis, James Sizemore / USA / 2019Home / Alberto Eveangelio / Spain / 2019Changeling / Faye Jackson / RU / 2019Chicken of the Dead / Julien David / France / 2019Diddi Wa Diddie / Joshua Erkman / USA / 2019Hacked / Erick Delgado / Canada / 2019Häuschen - A Herança / Paulo AM Oliveira, Pedro Martins / Portugal / 2019Hopes / Raùl Monge / Spain / 2019Imagine a World / Joanna Tsanis / Canada / 2019In Sound, We Live Forever / Joshua Giuliano / USA / 2018Lane 9 / Jessica Valentine & Richard Valentine / USA / 2019La Last Christmas of the Universe / David Muñoz and Adrián CardonaLay them Straight / Robert Deleskie / Canada / 2018Love Bite / Charles de Lauzirka / USA / 2018Monsters Walking / Diego Porral / Spain / 2018Make Me a Sandwich / Denman Hatch / Canada / 2019My Name is Koji / David Muñoz / Spain / 2019One Last Meal / Jill Gevargizian / USA / 2019Night Crawl / Gregory Shultz / USA / 201999.9% / Achille Marciano / Italy / 2019Picnic / Micheael Pinkney, Michael Reich / USA / 2019Playtime's Over / Tony Reames / USA / 2019Pleased to Eat You! / Adrian Hedgecock / UK / 2019Please Speak Continuously And Describe Your Experiences As They Come To You / Brandon Cronenberg / Canada / 2019Repent / Alan Ou / China / 2019Schism / Andrew Todd, Johnny Hall / New Zealand / 2019Shadow At The Door / Roshni Bhatia / USA / 2019Skeleton in The Closet / Tomi Malkki / Finland / 2019Stalag III-C / Jason Rogan / USA / 2019The Boogeywoman / Ercia Scoggins / USA / 2019The Cunning Man / Zoë Dobson / England / 2019The Death Vendor / Jinkyu Jeon / Japon / 2019The Fortune Teller / David Ferino / USA / 2019The Knowledge / Alexander Osman / USA / 2019The Loop / Rich Ragsdale / USA / 2019The Obliteration of the Chickens / Izzy Lee / USA / 2019The Rejected / Onur Dogan / Turkey / 2019The Spirits of Cairn / Shinobu Soejima / Korea / 2019Tic / Ben Nicholas / United States / 2019Together / Ryan Oksenberg / USA / 2019Translove Airways / Matthew Levin / USA / 2019Your Last Day on Earth / Marc Martínez Jordán / Spain / 201 9An Any Car / David Pérez Sañudo / Spain / 2019Unholy Mole / David Bornstein / USA / 2019Washed / Michael Bartolomeo / USA / 2019
Mórbido Film Fest will be held from October 30 to November 3 in Mexico City.CDMX, October 2019. This year, Morbido Film Fest celebrates its twelfth edition and has as its central theme, Water, because in some way Morbido is always attentive to what is happening in our environment. Likewise, fantasy and horror movies reflect the fears of society and what is happening. Without a dou bt water is today one of the most sensitive issues that causes migration and wars. At the same time water is very rich in a cinematic sense. We have movies that have to do with sea creatures, with issues that happen underwater, with natural disasters, and underwater worlds. Entire civilizations have developed thanks to water like ancient Egypt and our great Tenochtitlan.As every year we will have film premieres and guests that will make horror fans enjoy this festival. We started with an opening show on October 30th at the Esperanza Iris City Theater. There will be more than 45 artists on stage, including Paloma Ruiz de Alda, José Luis Badalt, Nohbords Contemporary Dance Group, Regina Orozco, Sonora Dinamita with Oscar Argaín and Drag Queens Eva Blunt, Barbara Durango and Iviza Lioza.On Thursday, October 31st there will be the world premiere of the 4K remastering of Holy Blood, a film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, with performances by Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison, Adan Jodorowsky, Faviola Elenka Tapia, and Teo Jodorowsky. This year is its 30th anniversary.In collaboration with the Cinematographic Training Center, the renowned writer, producer and director Gary Sherman will be present and will teach a master class in the “Luis Buñuel” room of the CCC. Through one of his most emblematic films Poltergeist III (1988), Sherman will guide us during his creation process and tell us how he and his team achieved the visual effects presented in the film. See how they managed to create phantasmagoric and unusual environments using mirrors and camera movements; since Sherman decided not to resort to the classic and widely used green screens to generate fascinating details and scenes using illusionism to transform cinematographic images. This master class is a unique opportunity to learn some of the secrets to perform special effects that translate into illusions and, which have gradually disappeared given the predilection of the directors for the visual effects made with computers.During the night of the premiere of Santa Sangre on Friday, November 1st, a concert will be held at the Iris City Theater by composer Simon Boswell, who will perform the music of this film. Boswell is director, producer and British musician nominated for BAFTA, known mainly for combining electronic elements with orchestras and for having worked with some of the greatest genre film directors such as: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Clive Barker, Danny Boyle and Alex de la Iglesia.This year, thanks to allies such as the Spanish Cultural Action State Society Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture, we have as guest the producer of “Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway” (Estonia, Spain) Sergio Uguet de Resayre and the director of "Paradise Hills" (USA), Alice Waddington.There will also be:The Devil Told Me What To Do,Dir: Alejandro G. Alegre, MexicoHuachicolero / The Gasoline ThievesDir: Edgar Nito, MexicoLuz,Dir: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate, ColombiaKill The Dragon,Dir: Jimena Monteoliva,Cast: Cecilia Cartasegna,Producer: Florencia Franco ArgentinaRendez-vous,Dir: Pablo Olmos Arrayales, MexicoHoly Blood 4K,Cast: Blanca Guerra, Adan Jodorowsky, Sergio Arau, Simon Boswell Composer, MexicoTintorera,René Cardona III (son of Rene Cardona Jr. RIP) ,Cast: Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, MexicoAliens, Clowns & Geeks,Dir: Richard Elfman,Cast & Crew: Bodhi Elfman, Anastasia Elfman, Ego Plum USACulture Shock,Dir: Gigi Saul Guerrero, USADeath Line,Dir: Gary Sherman USANail in the Coffin: The Fall And Rise of Vampiro,Cast: Ian Hodgkinson (Canadian Vampire), CanadaWild Session,Producer: Enrique López Lavigne, SpainScream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street,Cast: Mark Patton, USASvart Cirkel
Dir: Adrián García Bogliano,As every year the headquarters of Mórbido Film Fest are Cinepolis Diana, Autocinema Coyote, La Casa del Lago, Cinemanía, the Pushkin Garden and the Center of Digital Culture, located in the Estela de Luz.
Poster designed by Rafael Gallur
MÓRBIDO FEATURES 2019 FEATURES
LATIN AMERICAN
A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio Dir: Luciano and Nicolás Onetti, Sergio Morcillo, Joshua Long, Jason Bognacki, Adam O'Brien , Matt Richards, AJ Briones, Pablo S. Pastor, Oliver Park. Cast: Clara Kovacic, Michelle Costello, James Wright, Kera Obryon. Argentina, New Zealand | 2019 | 98 m | Color Rod is a radio announcer who is dedicated to telling horror stories on his show, one night he begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first Rod thinks it is a joke in bad taste until he discovers that those calls hide a dark secret.
Red Devil PTY Dir: Sol Moreno. Cast: Carlos Carrasco, Leo Wiznitzer, Alejandra Arauz, Natalia Beluche, Blas Valois, Renan Fernandez, Julian Urriola. Panama | 2019 | 80 m | color A chauffeur accompanied by his assistant, a priest and two policemen, must face the powers of darkness and the poison of his sins in the middle of the Panamanian jungle of Chrunqui with the old bus called "Red Devil" as his only refuge.
The Devil Told Me What To Do Dir: Alejandro G. Alegre. Cast: Marcos Duarte, Micho Camacho, María Pura, Isaac Pérez Calzada, Blanca Ferreyra, Ángel Garnica, Horus, Enrique Cervantes, Pablo Toledo. Mexico | 2019 | 93 m | color A young man with severe mental problems kidnaps a doctor who specializes in the sale of Medical Insurance so that the doctor confesses what the young man considers are his unforgivable sins.
Huachicolero - The Gasoline Thieves Dir: Edgar Nito. Cast: Leonardo Alonso, Eduardo Banda, Fernando Becerril, Myriam Bravo, Waldo Facco, Pedro Joaquin, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Pascacio López. Mexico | 2019 | 93 m |color Lalo enters the criminal underworld of illegal gas extraction. What begins as a quick way to have the latest smartphone quickly becomes a struggle to save your life.
Infection Dir: Flavio Pedota. Cast: Rubén Guevara, Leonidas Urbina, Magdiel González, Genna Chanelle Hayes, Isabel Bertelsen, Yon Henao Calderón, Luca de Lima. Venezuela, Mexico | 2019 | 96 m | color An outbreak of rabies virus triggers an epidemic of aggressive and cannibalistic beings in the destroyed city of Caracas in Venezuela, where Dr. Adam Vargas will embark on a journey to save his son from contagion.
Light Dir: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate. Cast: Conrado Osorio, Yuri Vargas, Andrea Esquivel, Sharon Guzmán, Jim Muñoz, Johan Camacho, Daniel Paez, Marcela Robledo. Colombia | 2019 | 103 m | color In the thicket of the mountains, in a community led by a preacher whom they call the Lord, a new Messiah arrives at the town, but with his arrival a series of evils begin that will cause the preacher's daughters to question the meaning of God, of the Devil and everything that makes them free...
Kill The Dragon Dir: Jimena Monteoliva. Cast: Guillermo Pfening, Justina Bustos, Luis Machín, Cecilia Cartasegna, Querelle Delage. Argentina | 2019 | 125 m |color Elenais kidnapped as a child and confined to hell. Years later he reappears and reunites with Facundo, her brother, but Elena will take his family to the terror of her past ...
Rendez-vous Dir: Pablo Olmos Arrayales. Cast: Helena Puig, Antonio Alcantara Cruz, Markin López, Aaron Gómez, Axel Zapien, Max Concha, Héctor Vázquez, Meztli Reyes, Markin López. Mexico | 2019 | 86 m | b / n Lili is excited and nervous about her date with Eduardo, whom she met through an online application. When he meets him, all his expectations are fulfilled, Eduardo is attentive, attractive, there is only one thing he does not like. He has lied to her, but why has he cheated on her ...
Dyer Dir: René Cardona Jr. Cast: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis, Eleazar García, Roberto "Flaco" Guzmán, Laura Lyons, Alejandro Ciangherotti. Mexico | 1977 | 126 m | color Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while chasing a great tiger shark that is terrorizing the east coast of Mexico.
FOREIGN FEATURES
A Good Woman is Hard to Find Dir: Abner Pastoll. Cast: Sarah Bolber, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan, Caolan Byrne, Packy Lee, Rudy Doherthy, Macie McCauley, Susan Ateh. United Kingdom, Ireland | 2019 | 97 m | color In the Irish asphalt jungle lives Sarah, mother of Lucy and Ben, a widow who fights day by day in a neighborhood where narcomenudeo and insecurity reign. One day a drug dealer invades his apartment and will force her to participate in a power game and will face the darkest of herself.
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks Dir: Richard Elfman. Cast: Bodhi Elfman, Rebecca Forsythe, Angeline-Rose Troy, French Stuart, Steve Agee, Nic Novicki, Verne Troyer, Marco Parra, George Wendt. USA | 2019 | 87 m | color An unemployed actor who by chance crosses the key to the universe, ends up engaging in an intergalactic war between clowns and aliens. An unleashed and explosive farce where the atmosphere is always delusional, the intrepid excesses and the sex with tantric pulsations.
A Living Dog Dir: Daniel Raboldt. Cast: Stefan Ebel, Siri Nase, Michelle Wiesemes, Nikolai Will. Germany | 2019 | 94 min | color The war between humanity and artificial intelligence has begun. Tomaz a deserter meets Lilja, a survivor of a resistance group, determined to fight. Every minute that passes, the machines approach, with sensors programmed to detect the patterns of the human voice. If you speak, if you whisper, you will die.
Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made Dir: David Amito. Cast: Nicole Tomkins, Rowan Smythe, Dan Istrate, Shu Sakimoto. USA, Canada, Hungary | 2018 | 95 m | color It is the story of two brothers who perform a pagan ritual in the forest with the aim of seeking to heal their pain after the death of their beloved pet, without suspecting that what they consider a symbolic act will unleash the forces of Hell on our reality.
Blood Machines Dir: Seth Ickerman. Cast: Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Christian Erickson, Joëlle Berckmans, Natasha Cashman, Noémie Stevens, Alexandra Flandrin. France, USA | 2019 | 50 m | color Two space bounty hunters chase a machine that wants to break free from the human yoke. When capturing it, they witness a mystical phenomenon, a woman's ghost emerges from the machine as if it had a soul. A spectacular and colorful special opera that will readjust your perception of what cinematographic science fiction can be.
Color Out of Space Dir: Richard Stanley. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Q'orianka Kilcher, Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong, Madeleine Arthur, Jullian Hilliard, Brendan Meyer, Elliot Knight. USA | 2019 | 111 m | color After the fall of meteorite on the rural property of the Gardner family, each of its members will have to face a mutant extraterrestrial organism that will slowly infect their bodies and their minds transforming their quiet life into a multicolored nightmare.
Bullets of Justice Dir: Valeri Milev. Cast: Danny Trejo, Yana Marinova, Dessy Slavova, Timur Turisbekov, Doroteya Toleva, Ester Chardaklieva. Republic of Kazakhstan | 2019 | 76 m | color During World War III, the US army creates a new breed of soldiers by mixing the DNA of humans with pigs. Twenty-five years later, pig-human hybrids dominate the planet. Prepare to reaffirm your love for the post-apocalyptic genre by discovering the excesses and follies of this film that will never cease to surprise you by subverting symbols, rethinking clichés and passing by lance in a superb way.
Come to Daddy Dir: Ant Timpson. Cast: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Garfield Wilson, Madeleine Sami, Martin Donovan, Michael Smiley, Simon Chin, Ona Grauer, Ryan Bell. USA, New Zealand | 2019 | 93 m | color A man in his thirties in full identity crisis travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his father after years of neglect. A wild black comedy about fatherhood, masculinity and fragility that all men hide.
Culture Shock Dir: Gigi Saul Guerrero. Cast: Martha Higareda, Richard Cabral, Shawn Ashmore, Barbara Crampton, Oscar Molina, Laura Ceron, Oscar Camacho, Sal López, Ian Iñigo. USA | 2019 | 91 m | color A Mexican woman in search of the American dream illegally crosses the border of the northern neighbors, without suspecting that the only thing she will get is to be part of the American nightmare. You don't have to get too far from reality to find terror.
Death Line Dir: Gary Sherman. Cast: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Christopher Lee, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney, Hugh Armstrong, June Turner, Clive Swift, United Kingdom | 1972 | 87 m | color When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing persons in the same place, Scotland Yard begins to take the matter seriously. No one suspects the existence of a hungry cannibal that inhabits the London underground.
Flesh City Dir: Thorsten Fleisch. Cast: Christian Serritello, Eva Ferox, Maria Hengge, Helena Princ, Arthur Patching, Thorsten Fleisch, Marilena Netzker, Shaun Lawton, Denis Lyons. Germany | 2019 | 84 m | color A young couple explores the basement of a den in Berlin and falls into the trap of Professor Yagov who seeks to open a portal that will sink the city into chaos and mutation. An amazing experience that will disturb your senses and transform your perceptions.
Flesh City Dir: Thorsten Fleisch. Cast: Christian Serritello, Eva Ferox, Maria Hengge, Helena Princ, Arthur Patching, Thorsten Fleisch, Marilena Netzker, Shaun Lawton, Denis Lyons. Germany | 2019 | 84 m | color A young couple explores the basement of a den in Berlin and falls into the trap of Professor Yagov who seeks to open a portal that will sink the city into chaos and mutation. An amazing experience that will disturb your senses and transform your perceptions.
Jallikattu Dir: Lijo Jose Pellissery. Cast: Anthony Varghese, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sabumon Abdusamad, Santhy Balachandran. India | 2019 | 91 min | color In a remote village in India, a large buffalo escapes before being slaughtered by the local butcher. His capture becomes a matter of pride for all the men in the village. Gradually the chase of the buffalo will bring out the wildest of all. An exceptional cinematic experience where the supra chaos and the primitive soul of our species is spectacularly reflected.
Jesús Shows You the Way to the Highway Dir: Miguel Llansó. Cast: Daniel Tadesse Gagano, Agustín Mateo, Guillermo Llansó, Gerda-Anette Allikas, Lauri Lagle, Iveta Pole, Solomon Tashe, Carlo Pironti. Estonia, Spain | 2019 | 82 m | color The CIA agents Palmer and Gagano have the mission of destroying a cyber virus called the Soviet Union. Upon entering the virtual world you will discover that your mission is actually a deadly trap. The ingredients for this recipe are Matrix in 8-bit version, 2 drops of LSD, karateka, and unauthorized star appearances of Stalin, Richard Pryor and Robert Redford himself. The result is a hilarious psychotronic experience that will reinvigorate your faith in low-budget cinema but exuberant in ideas, style and laughter.
Little Joe Dir: Jessica Hausner. Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Phénix Brossard, Leanne Best, Andrew Rajan, David Wilmot, Goran Kostic. Austria, United Kingdom, Germany | 2019 | 105 m | Color Alice is an employee of a biological engineering company that is dedicated to “harvesting” genetically engineered plants. Its new creation is a flower that, in exchange for delicate care, guarantees the happiness of its owner. A project that occupies all the time of the protagonist and that will end up disrupting her relationship with her young son, Joe.
Nail in the Coffin: The Fall And Rise of Vampiro Dir: Michael Paszt. Cast: Ian Hodgkinson, Dasha Hodgkinson. Canada | 2019 | 90 m | color | documentary A deep and sincere look at the past of the professional wrestler "Vampire" and his new life navigating the administration of the Wrestling Federation in Mexico, while raising his teenage daughter in Canada.
Paradise Hills Dir: Alice Waddington. Cast: Eiza González, Awkwafina, Milla Jovovich, Emma Roberts, Jeremy Irvine, Danielle Macdonald, Hunter Tremayne, Arnaud Valois, Daniel Horvath. Spain | 2019 | 95 m | color On a strange island is Paradise Hills, a luxury residence where wealthy families send their daughters to be educated to be perfect women. Uma is sent to this boarding school in which they intend to mold their personality. But Uma wants to remain true to herself, and will soon discover that the residence conceals a murky secret.
Riot Girls Dir: Jovanka Vuckovic. Cast: Madison Iseman, Jenny Raven, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Jake Sim, Munro Chambers, Atticus Mitchell, Carson MacCormac, Evan Marsh. Canada | 2019 | 81 m | color In a world in which the adult population has been decimated by a terrible plague, Nat intends to rescue his brother, who has been captured by an enemy gang. He will do it with the help of his girlfriend Scratch and the dear Sony. The three punks will have to do with a group of athletes armed to the teeth in the middle of a post-apocalyptic landscape.
Wild Session Dir: Julio César Sánchez, Paco Limón. Cast: Javier Aguirre, Simón Andreu, Paco Cabezas, Carmen Carrión, Álex de la Iglesia, Álvaro de Luna, Carlo De Marchis, Lone Fleming, Jorge Grau. Spain | 2018 | 84 m | color | documentary Documentary that goes through the golden age of exploitation cinema from the sixties to the eighties, a low-budget cinema but of great popular acceptance that exploited the cinematographic fashions, from the western to the horror cinema, passing through the Kinky cinema or even erotic comedies.
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street Dir: Roman Chimienti, Tyler Jensen. Cast: Mark Patton, Cecili Baldwin, Marshall Bell, David Chaskin, Robert Englund, Joshua Grannell, Clu Gulager, Heather Langenkamp. USA | 2019 | 99 m | color | documentary Emotional documentary that examines the homoerotic subtext of Freddy 2: Freddy's Revenge and its very particular place in the franchise as well as in the canon of gay cinema. Controversial and criticized at the time despite having been a success at the box office, today the film represents a new experience for both fans and its protagonist Mark Patton who far from reaching the dream so stardom had to face oblivion.
Svart Cirkel Dir: Adrián García Bogliano. Cast: Christina Lindberg, Felice Jankell, Erica Midfäll, Hanna Asp, Johan Palm, Hans Sadqvist, Inger Nilsson, Iwa Boman, Isabella Li Balck. Sweden | 2018 | 101 m | color The life of two sisters changes dramatically from a hypnotic experience, courtesy of a seventies vinyl with mystical magnetic properties. Welcome to a hypnotic experience to thoroughly question your psycho-emotional programming. Surrender to explore alternative psycho technologies captured in vinyl that do not require Wi-Fi.
The Pool Dir: Ping Lumpraploeng. Cast: Theeradej Wongpuapan, Ratnamon Ratchiratham. Republic of Thailand | 2018 | 91 m | color In an abandoned pool a young couple is trapped along with a hungry crocodile. A simple premise that will nonetheless offer you one of the most distressing film sessions of the year. Do not let the absence of a hollywoodense crocodile take you away from this Thai delight that will make you see the pools with other eyes.