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Cannes’ Blood Window: Gigi Saul Guerrero, Vampire Romantasy, ‘New Horror,’ More Women Filmmakers and Psychological Insight (EXCLUSIVE)
Packed with first feature directors, the Cannes Festival’s Blood Window underscore where much of horror cinema is trending.
Shot on Super16mm, “‘The Mantises’is part of a new wave of fantasy cinema that embraces the visual and the symbolic as its primary narrative language,” notes Gimeno, citing as other examples “A Ghost Story,” Dream Scenario and “I Saw the TV Glow.” The film has “everything I love about the genre: suspenseful sequences, a strong final girl, and a style of gore that is a celebration of practical effects over CGI,” says Marín, a writer on three-time Mexican Academy Ariel Award nominee “Massacre in Teques.” Produced by Marco Antonio Salgado at BDC Productions (“Jairo’s Revenge”), Villavicencio, and Cinépolis in Mexico, “The Muglur” is co-produced by Las Heras’ Leo Films (“The Open Window”) and Gualicho Cine (“A House With Two Dogs”) from Argentina.
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