International: Latin America

V/H/S/85: A New Trailer is Here For The Next Chapter in the Anthology Series

An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analog mashup of the forgotten 80s.

WHEN EVIL LURKS: Official Trailer And Poster Are Here, Watch at Your Own Peril

This is a public service announcement, I implore you to try and go into a screening of Demian Rugna's When Evil Lurks as blind as possible. Do not watch this trailer. Do not scroll down and look at the poster. Both...

Toronto 2023 Review: WHEN EVIL LURKS, Absolutely No One Is Safe

Gun shots ring out late at night, somewhere in the middle of rural Argentina. Brothers Pedro and Jimi head out the end of their property the next morning to investigate and discover a body, or, parts of a body. Further...

EL CONDE Review: Pablo Larraín's Anti-Pinochet Satire Soars On Its Vampiric Metaphor

For Chileans, September 11th has an entirely different meaning than it does for Americans. For the latter, September 11th refers to the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the nearly 3,000 lives lost. For...

AUXILIO - THE POWER OF SIN Trailer: Next Stop For Argentine Horror Thriller, Sitges!

It's 1931. Emilia, a young rebel with a defiant spirit, is sent by her father to a convent. Her arrival unleashes paranormal manifestations in the place, which grow increasingly powerful for all the inhabitants, including the nuns and the mentally...

WHEN EVIL LURKS Teaser: New Bone Crunching Horror Flick From Demian Rugna!

The new horror flick from Terrified's Demian Rugna has its world premiere at Tiff Midnight Madness next week.

WHEN EVIL LURKS: Shudder/IFC Wasting no Time Getting Demian Rugna's Next Horror Flick Out After TIFF Premiere

In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.

Friday One Sheet: ROTTING IN THE SUN

Sex and death. Eros and Thanatos. A corpse with an erection being consumed on a beach. The latest queer comedy from Sebastián Silva (director of the criminally underrated Magic Magic) gets this lovely hand painted poster (if you zoom in...

PARANORMAL JUSTICE (Justicia Paranormal) Trailer Exclusive: Chilean Supernatural Thriller Ready to Hit the Festival Circuit

During the boom boom times our friends at Suspenso in Chile held virtual versions of their genre festival. Headed up by the prolific Chilean filmmaker Patricio Valladares the festival also hosted SupsenoLAB, a co-production hub for local filmmakers.    One...

Santiago Horror 2023: Legendary Serpents Wage Battle in Festival Poster Art

At the end of last week our friends at Santiago Horror revealed the key art this year's edition, happening from October 5th through 8th.    This year's poster features "Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu" which are legendary ancestral serpents of...

Fantasia 2023: Final Wave Sees WE ARE ZOMBIES By RKSS Closing, Nic Cage Honored, Plus TIGER STRIPES, DEVILS, RAGING GRACE, And More

We are two weeks away from the opening of the 27th Fantasia in Montreal and today we get to see the final bunch of films to round out the three week long genre film extravaganza taking place in Montreal from...

THE ATTACHMENT DIARIES: Argentine Drama Thriller on Digital/VOD Next Week

Argentina, 1970's. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and...

QUICKSAND Trailer: Survival Thriller on Shudder This July

You have to be of a certain vintage, an age where we all thought that one of the ways we could possibly die was by drowning in quicksand.   It was such a frequent plot device of peril that if...

THE SACRIFICE (EL SACRIFICIO): Official English Language Trailer For LatAm Horror Flick

Two sisters have to fight for survival after arriving to a farm owned by their grandmother, an elderly woman stuck in a curse that has been consuming her for years.

Cannes 2023 Review: THE DELINQUENTS, Sensationally Entertaining Bank-Heist Dramedy

Daniel Elías and Esteban Bigliardi star as bank colleagues who rob their employer in Rodrigo Moreno's Argentinian comedy drama.

Frontieres 2023: Full Lineup Announced

The complete lineup of projects participating in this year's Frontières has been announced. The full lineup of both the market and the forum were announced today.    The market is where the bulk of our attention will be placed this...

THE HOLE IN THE FENCE Review: The Cruelty is the Point

"The rich are very different from you and me." F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said this with an apparently envy and longing to be rich. And there is a idea that most people want to be rich - but really, most...

Cannes 2023 Roundtable Interview: Amat Escalante Talks LOST IN THE NIGHT

Amat Escalante returned to the Croisette, exactly 10 years after the premiere of Heli, for which he won the Best Director award at this prestigious festival. With Lost in the Night (aka Perdidos en la noche), Escalante continues to address...

The Latin House of Horror. El Estudio, Morbido, And Sula Launch Six-Film Slate of Spanish Language Horror Films

Production houses El Estudio, Morbido, and Sula announced a grande six-film slate of Spanish language horror films this week during Marche du Film.   Dubbed The Latin House of Horror the lineup of filmmakers include some who will be making...

LOBO FEROZ: Gustavo Hernández's Adaptation of BIG BAD WOLVES Scores Worldwide Sales

Now that Gustvao Hernandez's crime thriller, Lobo Feroz, the Spanish-language adaptation of Israili crime-thriller Big Bad Wolves, has opened in its native Spain it will begin its rollout into the rest of the World.   Our friends at FilmSharks are...