2023-09-11 09:14:45
The variety of styles and looks that make up the new trends within fantasy genre cinema will come together in this new installment of the Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival City of La Laguna Calavera Islandaccording to the first confirmed titles that will be part of the programming.
Bloodthe new movie Brad Andersondirector of fantastic horror thrillers like Session 9 o The Machinist, will be part of the Official Feature Film Competition Section of the festival. A review of vampirism that navigates through a family drama with an exquisite staging, with Michelle Monaghan, Skeet Ulrich and the young Finlay Wojtak-Hissong leading the cast.
Catastrophe movie arrives on Skull Island Just Philippot Acidbased on her 2018 short film. Applauded at Cannes, in this new ecohorror proposal after her impressive debut, Cloud (Special Jury Prize in Sitges 2020), in the middle of a heat wave, a lethal acid rain is unleashed and a broken family will have to come together to escape this plague that devastates the world. It is starring Guillaume Canet y Laetitia Dosch.
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The fantastic Spanish of the moment will be represented through titles such as The dining room table, I review them y when the masters sleep.
The dining room table It is the first feature film that he signs solo caye houseswhose works together with Albert Pintó Kill God and the short film RIP They went through previous editions of Skull Island. An uncomfortable black comedy about a couple whose life falls apart after the decision to buy a piece of furniture for their home. Audience Award at the Mexico City International Horror Film Festival, Macabro, held at the end of August, stars David Pareja (Amigo) y Stephanie de los Santosnominated for the Goya for best new actress for Group 7.
Santiago Alvarado Ilarri sign comedy when the masters sleepthe story of a humble couple, with everyday and other supernatural problems as a result of attending to the needs of their Lord, a vampire who only feeds on bad people. Ivan Massagué, Juanjo Pardo, Diana Garcia y Manuela Velasco They lead the cast.
In addition, low-budget independent production can be seen I review themwritten and directed by Kike Narcea. A spectacular thriller of action and violence, with an ensemble cast that includes Mario Mayo, Javier Botet, Ruth Santamaria, Ana Marquez, Miguel Lago Casal and the veterans Lone Fleming y Antonio Mayansamong others.
The Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival Ciudad de La Laguna Calavera Island will feature the North American actor Sam J. Jones as the first confirmed guest. The protagonist of the 1980 classic ‘Flash Gordon’ will collect the Legend of Fantastic Award. A new programming preview and new guests will be announced soon.
About the Calavera Island Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival
Organized by the Cultural Association Charlas de Cine, the Isla Calavera Cultural Association, Multicines Tenerife and the specialized publication TumbaAbierta.com, with the sponsorship of the La Laguna City Council, through the Department of Culture, the Cabildo of Tenerife, the Canary Institute of Cultural Development, Canary Islands Film and Tenerife Film Commission; and the collaboration of the University of La Laguna, among other public and private entities, the Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival was born in 2017 and in its six years of history it has achieved a significant national impact and is already considered as one of the five most relevant fantasy film festivals in the country.
At the international level it has also become one of the events to take into account, thanks to the participation of such relevant figures as John Landis, Deborah Nadoolman, Sarah Douglas, Rick Baker, Caroline Munro, David Naughton, Lamberto Bava, Enzo G Castellari, Mick Garris, Neil Marshall, Charlotte Kirk, Nicholas Rowe, Colin Arthur or Jack Taylor. Other guests who have visited Tenerife within the framework of the Isla Calavera Festival and who have put the event on the map of cinematographic meetings are Belén Rueda, Álex de la Iglesia, Paco Plaza, Carolina Bang, Paco Cabezas, Víctor Matellano, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Eugenio Mira or Lola Dueñas, among others. Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival Poster City of La Laguna Calavera Island 2023
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