By the end of The Old Ways, we’ve learned a few things about Brigitte Kali Canales’ Cristina, primarily that she’s been lost for much longer than the movie lets on. Sure, she finds herself captive in a village in the outskirts of Veracruz, Mexico, but she wasn’t any closer to home as a reporter in Los Angeles. In fact, Cristina admits in one of the best scenes of the movie that she’s always felt displaced anywhere she went, that she doesn’t think there’s a home for her, which is why she’s run away from her life in order to find death.
Instead, by the time the credits roll on this tale of witchcraft, Cristina has found purpose as the new bruja (Spanish for “witch”) of the Mexican village where she was born, ready to continue fighting the demons that lurk in La Boca...
Instead, by the time the credits roll on this tale of witchcraft, Cristina has found purpose as the new bruja (Spanish for “witch”) of the Mexican village where she was born, ready to continue fighting the demons that lurk in La Boca...
- 8/31/2021
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Here's a film that will soon be streaming and belongs on your radar, especially if you relish independent horror movies: The Old Ways, from the people who made The Mortuary Collection. Heading to Netflix on August 25, The Old Ways debuted at the Sitges Film Festival last year, which seems like an eternity ago. Directed by Christopher Alender and written by Marcos Gabriel, the film stars Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julia Vera, Sal Lopez, and Aj Bowen. What's it about, you ask, because you are a fan of independent horror movies and/or Aj Bowen? According to the official synopsis: "When Cristina Lopez -- a Mexican American reporter -- returns to her ancestral homeland of Veracruz chasing a story on witchcraft and faith healers, she...
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- 8/9/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Folklore is way more than just telling stories; it serves as a moral compass or as a guide to navigating life. From the most ancient hieroglyphics and cave paintings to Grimms’ Fairy Tales and even today’s memes, human beings have turned to story and imagery to warn onlookers of life’s woes and how to avoid them. Unfortunately, many culture’s folklore and languages are dying off, and we are losing those invaluable lessons. Even though in modern life we have so many resources and guides, how much do we risk when the “old ways” die out?
The Old Ways gives viewers a shocking glimpse of what can go wrong if we lose sight of tradition, and is just as much a lesson in exorcising our poisonous modern-day lifestyles. Have you ever felt like your work-life balance was crushing you? That your stress headaches felt like claws inside your brain?...
The Old Ways gives viewers a shocking glimpse of what can go wrong if we lose sight of tradition, and is just as much a lesson in exorcising our poisonous modern-day lifestyles. Have you ever felt like your work-life balance was crushing you? That your stress headaches felt like claws inside your brain?...
- 5/11/2021
- by Steph Howard
- DailyDead
Brigitte Kali Canales in The Old Ways Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
In the first part of my interview with director Christopher Alender, writer Marcos Gabriel and star Brigitte Kali Canales from Glasgow Film Festival Frightfest pick The Old Ways, we discussed the development of the script, which explores a Mexican/US journalist’s return to her roots and the ritual exorcism she is subjected to when local people come to believe that she’s possessed. We also talked about casting and some of the things that happened during the shoot. In part two, I began by asking Brigitte about the central emotional relationship in the film, between her character and her cousin who stayed behind when she left the country.
“I feel like I related to that because I have relationships with some of my cousins,” Brigitte says. “And some I was very close to when I was little.
In the first part of my interview with director Christopher Alender, writer Marcos Gabriel and star Brigitte Kali Canales from Glasgow Film Festival Frightfest pick The Old Ways, we discussed the development of the script, which explores a Mexican/US journalist’s return to her roots and the ritual exorcism she is subjected to when local people come to believe that she’s possessed. We also talked about casting and some of the things that happened during the shoot. In part two, I began by asking Brigitte about the central emotional relationship in the film, between her character and her cousin who stayed behind when she left the country.
“I feel like I related to that because I have relationships with some of my cousins,” Brigitte says. “And some I was very close to when I was little.
- 3/9/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stars: Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julia Vera, Sal Lopez, Aj Bowen, Weston Meredith | Written by Marcos Gabriel | Directed by Christopher Alender
Directed by Christopher Alender, this US-produced horror offers a Latin American twist on the standard possession story. The result is an engaging and unsettling horror that successfully gets under your skin and throws in some strong allegorical resonance for good measure.
After a short prologue, The Old Ways opens with a bold move, whereby the story ditches the usual character introduction and set-up in favour of jumping straight into the action. American – but Mexico-born – journalist Cristina (Brigitte Kali Canales) awakens to find herself tied up and held against her will in a small room. It quickly transpires that she’s been kidnapped by a group of mysterious locals – including Luz (Julia Vera) and her adult son Javi (Sal Lopez) – who believe that she’s possessed by a demon...
Directed by Christopher Alender, this US-produced horror offers a Latin American twist on the standard possession story. The result is an engaging and unsettling horror that successfully gets under your skin and throws in some strong allegorical resonance for good measure.
After a short prologue, The Old Ways opens with a bold move, whereby the story ditches the usual character introduction and set-up in favour of jumping straight into the action. American – but Mexico-born – journalist Cristina (Brigitte Kali Canales) awakens to find herself tied up and held against her will in a small room. It quickly transpires that she’s been kidnapped by a group of mysterious locals – including Luz (Julia Vera) and her adult son Javi (Sal Lopez) – who believe that she’s possessed by a demon...
- 3/5/2021
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
At some point over the last ten or fifteen years there was a huge commercial boom in possession movies. It felt like suddenly every horror with even the tiniest whiff of supernatural about it was trying to be the new Exorcist, squashing watered-down religious chicanery into everything from cheap found-footage moulds to studio level haunted house movies. For the most part, they were white and western as ever, and very few came even close to scratching the surface of what Williams Friedkin and Blatty managed several decades earlier with their seminal Best Picture nominee.
The Old Ways is ironically, a new breed, however. A very different type of possession movie that comes a helluva lot closer to what The Exorcist got so fundamentally right all those years ago. It is, of course, a horror movie through-and-through, with nasty jumps and plenty of gnarly, go-for-broke bumps to boot. But Christopher Alender...
The Old Ways is ironically, a new breed, however. A very different type of possession movie that comes a helluva lot closer to what The Exorcist got so fundamentally right all those years ago. It is, of course, a horror movie through-and-through, with nasty jumps and plenty of gnarly, go-for-broke bumps to boot. But Christopher Alender...
- 3/5/2021
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Brigitte Kali Canales in The Old Ways Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
When a journalist who left Mexico as a child and has built her career in the US returns to the place of her birth in search of interesting cultural phenomena to write about, she gets more than she bargained for. This is The Old Ways, part of the Frightfest selection at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. It’s a story about identity, demonic possession and ancient rituals. A few weeks before the festival, I met up with director Christopher Alender, writer Marcos Gabriel and star Brigitte Kali Canales to discuss the development process, the shoot and more.
“Marcos and I have been working together since we were teenagers in the Nineties,” says Chris. “He came up with the idea for this. We were trying to find something we could do that would be kind of contained...
When a journalist who left Mexico as a child and has built her career in the US returns to the place of her birth in search of interesting cultural phenomena to write about, she gets more than she bargained for. This is The Old Ways, part of the Frightfest selection at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. It’s a story about identity, demonic possession and ancient rituals. A few weeks before the festival, I met up with director Christopher Alender, writer Marcos Gabriel and star Brigitte Kali Canales to discuss the development process, the shoot and more.
“Marcos and I have been working together since we were teenagers in the Nineties,” says Chris. “He came up with the idea for this. We were trying to find something we could do that would be kind of contained...
- 3/2/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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