Fresh off making history, becoming the first Latin American to win the best picture award at Sitges with highly acclaimed Shudder Original “When Evil Lurks,” Argentina’s Demián Rugna figures among writers of six finalist screenplays at Tinta Oscura 2023, presented by Blood Window and Argentine independent Del Toro Films.
Part of Ventana Sur, backed by Cannes Marché du Film and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, Blood Window unspools over Nov. 27-Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires.
Further finalists, chosen from some 300 submissions, take in Mexico’s extraordinarily prolific and multi-prized horror writer Sandra Becerril (“Desde tu infierno”) and the Dominican Republic’s Junior Rosales. co-writer of Isaac Ezban’s “Evil Eye,” a B.O. hit.
Screenplays must be original and unpublished fantastic genre works, either horror or sci-fi stories. The winning script will be announced at Blood Window on Dec. 1. It will receive a $10,000 cash prize from Del Toro Films which will produce the title,...
Part of Ventana Sur, backed by Cannes Marché du Film and Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, Blood Window unspools over Nov. 27-Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires.
Further finalists, chosen from some 300 submissions, take in Mexico’s extraordinarily prolific and multi-prized horror writer Sandra Becerril (“Desde tu infierno”) and the Dominican Republic’s Junior Rosales. co-writer of Isaac Ezban’s “Evil Eye,” a B.O. hit.
Screenplays must be original and unpublished fantastic genre works, either horror or sci-fi stories. The winning script will be announced at Blood Window on Dec. 1. It will receive a $10,000 cash prize from Del Toro Films which will produce the title,...
- 11/17/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Director Isaac Ezban (The Similars, The Incident) departs from his usual exploration of science fiction to deliver his first full horror feature, Evil Eye (Mal de Ojo). Ezban uses his sci-fi origins as an entry point into a horror fairy tale that blends Dominican myth and Mexican folklore with modern sensibilities for an emotionally charged, witchy story full of blood.
Parents Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and Guillermo (Arap Bethke) grow increasingly worried over sickly young daughter Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro), who’s becoming increasingly resistant to treatment for her illness. They pack her up along with neglected older sibling Nala (Paola Miguel) and head to the countryside. The parents leave their children behind with Grandma Josefa (Ofelia Medina) as they head back to the city, searching for cures beyond conventional medicine. But Nala and Luna have never been to the countryside, nor have they ever met their strict grandmother. After Josefa...
Parents Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and Guillermo (Arap Bethke) grow increasingly worried over sickly young daughter Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro), who’s becoming increasingly resistant to treatment for her illness. They pack her up along with neglected older sibling Nala (Paola Miguel) and head to the countryside. The parents leave their children behind with Grandma Josefa (Ofelia Medina) as they head back to the city, searching for cures beyond conventional medicine. But Nala and Luna have never been to the countryside, nor have they ever met their strict grandmother. After Josefa...
- 9/29/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Isaac Ezban's "Evil Eye" ("Mal de Ojo") welcomes and reassures audiences with grandmotherly comforts like a folkloric horror tale before nap time. Co-writers Junior Rosario and Edgar San Juan help Ezban summon brujas (basically witches) and terrify infirm children with witchy production value fit for the grimmest fairy tale books. "Evil Eye" explores Dominican campfire stories that drip of slime-green goo and adolescent curiosities about the dark arts. Ezban's filmmaking is a warm genre blanket that wraps around viewers, as the soothing bonds of bloodlines turn treacherous the farther we press into whimsically malevolent cultural influences.
Littlest Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro) suffers from an affliction that her parents will do anything to cure. Mother Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and father Guillermo (Arap Bethke) have enough to worry about as their rental complex is ravaged by a sickness that continually infects children — luckily Luna and older sister Nala (Paola Miguel) remain unaffected,...
Littlest Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro) suffers from an affliction that her parents will do anything to cure. Mother Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and father Guillermo (Arap Bethke) have enough to worry about as their rental complex is ravaged by a sickness that continually infects children — luckily Luna and older sister Nala (Paola Miguel) remain unaffected,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
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