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Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, has unleashed the trailer for his black metal horror movie Invoking Yell, and you can check out the exclusive new trailer and poster below.

Welcome Villain Films releases the ’90s set found footage horror movie on Digital on September 20, 2024.

Invoking Yell follows “a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls who venture into the woods to shoot the demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell. However, things take a sinister turn as they document their disturbing and unorthodox process of recording paranormal phenomena to be used in the album’s final track.”

Maria Jesus Marcone, Macarena Carrere, and Andrea Ozuljevich star in Invoking Yell.

Valladares and Barry Keating, whose credits include Downhill, wrote the screenplay.

The film is co-produced by Vallastudio Films and Moral Bros Entertainment. Diego Moral Heimpell is the executive producer. Vittorio Farfan and Valladares serve as producers.

Production has wrapped in Chile on Vallastudio Films’ horror Tide’s Gift from Patricio Valladares, the filmmaker behind last year’s found-footage horror Invoking Yell and Hidden In The Woods.

Tide’s Gift (Lo Que Trajo la Marea) shot in Cobquecura in the Ñuble Region in southern Chile and follows two sisters who visit a beach after their mother’s funeral, only for one of them to begin to act strangely after she is nearly swept away by a current.

Valladares wrote the screenplay and the producers are Vittorio Farfan, Sebastian Riestra, and Loris Curci. The film stars Maria Jesus Marcone...

Toro Loco is a re-run to the classic adventure films like ‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’ & ‘El Mariachi’, and is directed by Patricio Valladares. The Toro Loco Blu-ray is available now from MegaCity Media. The son of a notorious mob lord hires the most ruthless hitman to kill his own wife and …

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Toro Loco is a re-run to the classic adventure films like ‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’ & ‘El Mariachi’, and is directed by Patricio Valladares. The Toro Loco Blu-ray is available now from MegaCity Media.

The son of a notorious mob lord hires the most ruthless hitman to kill his own wife and son. He hires Toro Loco. A cold, eccentric assassin, who brings Hell, always under his own twisted rules.

Patricio Valladares is a Chilean director, screenwriter, editor and producer. Known for his work in genre cinema Valladares has directed numerous features throughout the years.

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When Chilean filmmaker Patricio Valladares shuffler their mortal coil I swear they will die with a camera held in one hand and the other gripping the keyboard for a editing bay. They will die in the midst of making a movie, or, if he stops making movies. We hadn't thought of that until we started writing this article. Maybe if he stops making movies he will die? Gasp. Perish the thought.    Valladares has passed along word that they're finishing their next film, a crime action comedy called PerKings. Along with that word comes a trio of stills and the official poster. That poster below was designed by none other than Omar Hauksson, alumni of the ScreenAnarchy family.    Valladares will no doubt keep us...

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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 of the filmmakers who took part in the program in 2020 was Carlos Thanax (Carlos Vergara Villarroel) and their project, Justicia Paranormal. We did not have any details about the projects back then but the idea took flight, got the backing it needed to head into production and here we are, ready to premiere the first trailer for the supernatural thriller.    Along with the premiere of the first trailer Thanax has also sent along a small gallery of production and behind the scenes production...

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Now on its fourth year, the Santiago Film Festival’s Morbido-Sanfic Lab features an ever more diverse selection from Ibero-America.

As Morbido founder-ceo Pablo Guisa said of this year’s edition: “It has projects from multiple countries, several produced or directed by women as well as one LGBTQ-themed project and, for the first time, a documentary.” Vampire creatures abound in this crop.

Humberto Mazari, the helmer-scribe-producer behind one of the six projects, psychological thriller “The Alaska Summit” (“La Cumbre de Alaska),” is developing three comic book spinoffs which will further delve into the underworld of the summit and the creatures that guard it. “In the coming weeks we expect to consolidate the visual aesthetics with three Latin American illustrators in charge of bringing these comic books to life,” he told Variety.

“As Pablo comments, this space continues to grow year by year, and I dare say it houses some of...

Tearsucker: "The film tells the story of Lilly (Allison Walter), an emotionally vulnerable trauma survivor who is desperate to heal and get on with her life. Despite the support of her best friend Deb (Danielle Mcrae Spisso), Lilly is completely isolated. When she crosses paths with a charming stranger, Tom (Sam Brittan), at the park, she feels hope for the first time in months. Tom sweeps Lilly off her feet and invites her on a romantic weekend getaway. However, things take a disturbing turn when Lily discovers that Tom has an unusual appetite for tears… and will stop at nothing to get them.

Tearsucker is a stylish, twisted thriller that gives a true look at toxic relationships and the power dynamic that exists within them, as well as the red flags we often ignore."

Director: Stephen Vanderpool Actors: Allison Walter , Sam Brittan , Danielle McRae Spisso

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The new genre studio Welcome Villain Films have announced that they’ve acquired the distribution rights to the Chilean found footage horror film Invoking Yell, which has been getting a lot of positive attention while making the festival rounds.

Directed by Patricio Valladares, who also wrote the screenplay with Barry Keating, Invoking Yell is set in Chile in 1997. The film is said to be a love letter to black metal that follows a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls who venture into the woods to shoot the demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell. However, things take a sinister turn as they document their disturbing and unorthodox process of recording paranormal phenomena to be used in the album’s final track.

María Jesús Marcone, Macarena Carrere, and Andrea Ozuljevich play those three metalheads.

Valladares provided the following statement: “This film was always meant to be an ode to the...

Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, is back with Invoking Yell, which has just been acquired by Welcome Villain Films (Malum).

The news was first reported by Screen Daily this afternoon. No word yet on when Welcome Villain will be releasing the film here in the States, but we’ll keep you posted.

Valladares tells the site, “This film was always meant to be an ode to the found footage films of the 90’s, but with a black metal twist. I’m a big fan of The Blair Witch Project and many other found footage films from that era, and I am also a metalhead, so the subject matter came easy to me. It is incredibly exciting to be teaming up with the amazing group at Welcome Villain to release this special film to the world. We couldn’t be happier with this partnership.”

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Patricio Valladares directed the homage to nineties found-footage horror.

Welcome Villain Films has acquired worldwide rights to Invoking Yell, the latest horror feature from Chilean filmmaker Patricio Valladares.

The new Los Angeles-based genre company will distribute the film, its first Spanish-language acquisition, in the US and handle international sales.

Directed by Valladares (known for genre releases including 2012’s Hidden In The Woods), the film was written by Valladares and Barry Keating and produced by Diego Moral Heimpell for Moral Brothers Entertainment and Vittorio Farfan (who also served as cinematographer).

Set in 1990s Chile, the film follows three twentysomething women – played by María Jesús Marcone,...

The first wave of Popcorn Frights Film Festival unleashed new premieres and repertory screenings in 3D, and the festival’s second wave announcement today brings more can’t miss horror events. The fest is back this year for its ninth edition, both in-person and virtually, from August 10-20 in Fort Lauderdale, South Beach and virtually nationwide.

Highlights from the second wave of Popcorn Frights 2023 programming include a trio of horror classics. Nightbreed star Anne Bobby is checking into the festival for a special big screen presentation of Clive Barker‘s “Director’s Cut” as well as the world premiere of her new short film “Kindling.” Expect surprises in store for the 50th anniversary screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on August 18. And what better way to experience the 60th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds than with a special free outdoor presentation on Ocean Drive, Miami Beach’s...

How far would you be willing to go to become famous? This is the question a group of three twentysomething women ask themselves when they decide to form a black metal band in Chile in the late 1990s. The band calls themselves Invoking Yell and plans a trip to a remote location in the wilderness to work on their demo tape, hoping to capture electronic voice phenomenon (EVPs) to give their music a unique sound. While alone in the middle of nowhere, what starts out as playful competition among the women becomes something much darker and more dangerous, making Invoking Yell a chilling, intensely unnerving experience.

Written by Barry Keating (Killer Mermaid) and Patricio Valladares (En las Afueras De la Ciudad) and directed by Valladares, Invoking Yell is shot VHS found footage style and has an authentic 1990s feel, from denim jackets to the camera and recording equipment used by the band.

The Chattanooga Film Festival Conjures First Wave: "Hot on the haunted heels of their tenth-anniversary announcement, organizers of The Chattanooga Film Festival (Cff) have once assembled a first wave of strange and fantastic cinema for their hybrid edition this year.

First up is the North American premiere of a film primed to knock the socks off Cff’s longtime fans - filmmaker Jonas Trukanas‘ perfectly executed Lithuanian slasher We Might Hurt Each Other. Trukanas' briskly paced hoot of a horror film is one of this year’s true standouts and another title presented by Screambox. We Might Hurt Each Other has all the makings of a deeply satisfying cult classic.

Closing out the festival for those attending in person this year is Trim Season, marking the return of filmmaker Ariel Vida, who first attended Cff in 2019 with a secret screening of Vide Noir. Her latest combines a terrific ensemble cast,...

Upcoming Screambox slasher We Might Hurt Each Other is among the densely packed first full wave of programming for the upcoming Chattanooga Film Festival!

The Chattanooga Film Festival 2023 returns in person and virtually for its tenth year, taking place June 23 through 29! The beloved festival will return to an in person event for the first time since 2019, from June 23 through 25, while still offering a virtual experience from June 23 through 29.

We Might Hurt Each Other joins previously announced Screambox screenings of Onyx The Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls and body horror New Religion. The fest says of the upcoming slasher: “filmmaker Jonas Trukanas‘ perfectly executed Lithuanian slasher We Might Hurt Each Other. Trukanas’ briskly paced hoot of a horror film is one of this year’s true standouts and another title presented by Screambox. We Might Hurt Each Other, has all the makings of a deeply satisfying cult classic.”

For those attending in person,...

Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, has unleashed the trailer for his black metal horror movie Invoking Yell, and you can check out the footage below.

The Chilean horror is set in 1997, when a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls venture into the woods to shoot their demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell, while also documenting the eerie and unsettling process of recording psicofonias in the woods.

Maria Jesus Marcone, Macarena Carrere and Andrea Ozuljevich star in Invoking Yell.

Valladares and Barry Keating, whose credits include Downhill, wrote the screenplay in 2022.

Production took place in Los Lleuques, Ñuble.

The film is co-produced by Vallastudio Films and Moral Bros Entertainment. Diego Moral Heimpell is executive producer. Vittorio Farfan and Valladares serve as producers.

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Filmmaker’s credits include Hidden In The Woods, Downhill.

Patricio Valladares, the Chilean genre ace and market mainstay behind Hidden In The Woods and Downhill, is looking to attach a sales agent to his later film, the crime dark comedy PerKings.

Production wrapped recently in Chillán in the Ñuble region in southern Chile on the story of a small-time thug in his 50’s who embarks on a spree of bank robberies to pay back a drug baron after a rival cartel steals his goods.

Rodrigo Huepe, Cristian Cuentrejo, and Giordano Rossi star in PerKings. Vittorio Farfan and Valladares are serving...

A decade after the Chilean hit Hidden in the Woods made waves at festivals across the world, director Patricio Valladares is back with a sequel! Hidden in the Woods 2 is set ten years after the original and sees Anny, survivor of the horrific events depicted in that first film, trying to lead a new […]

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‘Cannibal Holidays’ will shoot in Chile and Germany later this year.

Exclusive: Germany’s Redrum Films Productions is to back Cannibal Holidays, a new project from Chilean genre filmmaker Patricio Valladares.

The film will shoot in Chile and Germany later this year, with Valladares directing. Redrum CEO Michael Merhi will produce along with Valladares and Vittorio Farfan. Production and services company Redrum (not to be confused with UK film and TV production company Redrum Films) is the film arm of German horror publisher Redrum Books.

Andrea Cavaletto has written the screenplay, adapted from the 2018 novel of the same title by...

One of Chile's more prolific filmmakers, Patricio Valladares, has wrapped filming his latest, a black metal horror flick called Invoking Yell. And holy shit, two of my friends star in it!   Macarena Carrere, who we last saw in Lucio A Rojas' Trauma, stars with Andrea Ozuljevich, who I'll have to confirm this with her, but this looks like her feature film debut. Their co-star, Maria Jesus Marcone, appears to be making her sophomore appearance. That's Marcone in the provided image.    Set in 1997 South of Chile, a trio of metalhead twenty something girls venture into the woods to shoot their demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell, while also documenting the eerie and unsettling process of recording psicofonias in the woods for...

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Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, has wrapped production on his black metal horror movie Invoking Yell, Bloody Disgusting learned today. We also scored the first-look image from the Chilean horror that’s set in 1997 South of Chile where a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls venture into the woods to shoot […]

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The film is expected to hit the festival circuit in 2023.

Principal photography on black metal horror project Invoking Yell, from director Patricio Valladares, has been completed in the Nuble region of Chile. 

The film is co-produced by Vallastudio Films and Moral Bros Entertainment, with Vittorio Farfan and Valladares serving as producers and Diego Moral Heimpell as executive producer. Valladares and Barry Keating wrote the screenplay in 2021. 

Maria Jesus Marcone, Macarena Carrere and Andrea Ozuljevich star in the 1990s story of three twentysomething women who venture into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band. 

The producers...

Producers targeting release in second half of 2022.

Principal photography on Patricio Valladares’s low-budget survival thriller film Hidden In The Woods Part 2 has wrapped in southern Chile.

The sequel takes place 10 years after events in the 2012 original and sees Anny trying to lead a new life in a new town as a cleaner after she and her sister were terrorised by their abusive father and crime boss uncle.

Anny’s peaceful existence is shattered when gangsters turn up at her employer’s lake house to collect a debt. Production took place in Las Aguadas, Yumbel.

Priscilla Olguín, Giordano Rossi, Christian Cuentrejo,...

Producers targeting release in second half of 2022.

Principal photography on Patricio Valladares’s low-budget survival thriller film Hidden In The Woods Part 2 has wrapped in southern Chile.

The sequel to the 2014 horror takes place 10 years after the original and sees Anny trying to lead a new life in a new town as a cleaner after she and her sister were subject to the whims of their abusive, drug-dealing father.

Her peaceful existence is shattered when gangsters turn up at her employer’s lake house to collect a debt. Production took place in Las Aguadas, Yumbel.

Priscilla Olguín, Giordano Rossi, Christian Cuentrejo,...

Fresh from Chile this morning is a new poster and batch of stills for the new short film Snowdevil from my friend Patricio Valladares. He made this revenge centered short with his regular writing partner Barry Keating. They expect to get Snowdevil out onto the festival circuit later this year. The sombre yet darkly violent neo-noir tale of Alan Massy, a father who has decided to dive headfirst into the abyss and go to extreme and terrifying lengths to fulfil his daughter’s dying wish. Travelling to the isolated town of Snowdevil during the cold harsh winter, Massy is hell-bent on tracking down his estranged grandchild while exacting a brutal and bloody revenge on his daughter’s former lover, leader of a cult. In a...

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Stars: Romina Perazzo, Domingo Guzmán, Carolina Escobar, Cristian Cuentrejoa, Evelyn Belmar, Paulina Facuse, Yuri Caceres, Giordano Rossi, Serge François | Written by Patricio Valladares, Barry Keating | Directed by Patricio Valladares

The synopsis for Embryo only really explains a hint of the film even if it seems to give away quite a lot. It explains that the movie follows a couple who while camping are abducted by aliens and woman, Evelyn is impregnated. Since that abduction she is having cravings for human flesh.

But this isn’t the only story in Embryo, a film that is some kind of strange anthology as we see a couple of other creepy tales that all link together eventually. Not only this but it’s a mix of sub genre that all umbrella under the same horror/sci-fi link. We see found footage, news stories, a normally shot film and even snuff film-like moments and if...

We're going to change it up for a moment and talk graphic novels. One graphic novel in particular, only because it's from a friend of ours in Chile, filmmaker Patricio Valladares, so it's easy enough to extend him the favor and give him a shout out.    This 26th march, the debut back to comic book world from chilean filmmaker Patricio Valladares with Monsters And Killers (Asesinos y Monstruos) will be available on digital for all latin america via amazon kindle, and soon on comixology.com for North America.   Monsters and Killers is a brand new and terrifying graphic novel from Chilean filmmaker . The book follows the tale of an aging hitman living out his days in the Chilean country...

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Genre festival has set a new opening film after cancelling its physical edition.

UK genre festival Frightfest has extended its programme and set a new opening film for this year’s edition after deciding to move the event online.

The festival was due to take place in London from October 22-25, opening with South Korean zombie thriller Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula, but was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.

Festfest 2020 will now take place virtually across the same dates, opening with the world premiere of US horror Held, directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the filmmaking duo behind The Gallows franchise.

Director layerd old home movies into final cut after pandemic halted production.

Uncork’d has picked up US, Canadian and Mexican rights to Embryo, the sci-fi horror thriller from Chilean genre specialist and Hidden In The Woods director Patricio Valladares.

Valladares and regular collaborator Barry Keating co-wrote the screenplay about Kevin and Evelyn, a couple camping in the woods whose trip takes a turn for the worse when the woman is abducted and impregnated by aliens.

After Evelyn develops a taste for humans and attacks a doctor, the couple flee for the big city in the hope of expelling the...

This snuck up on us but our friends at Suspenso in Chile are preparing for their third annual festival and lab. Run by director Patricio Valladares the event will run online this coming week, from the 25th through the 28th. Chile - at least parts where my friends are - is still under a strict lockdown during this time of Covid, but at least the festival is able to provide something this year.    There will be online screenings of Antrum, Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Dark Circle, Juan Martínez Moreno's horror comedy Game of Werewolves, wacky Argentine omnibus Terror 5, a rep screeing of the 1989 film Violent Shit from German filmmaker Andreas Schnaas, and two films from Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael:...

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Just in time for Black Friday―and the holiday season in general―comes a booster pack for a new character called "The Sleigher" for the Mixtape Massacre game. Also in today's : A Feast of Man DVD and digital debut and details on the new director for Witchula.

Details on Mixtape Massacre's New The Sleigher Booster Pack: "'Rotten! Rotten souls, all of them,” a voice kept whispering to Bruce as he sat there in his Santa outfit awaiting the excited children of Tall Oaks Mall. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t shake this feeling something was coming over him. As the kids came and went, the voice got louder and louder. Suddenly a local girl screamed, “Look! Santa has horns!” It was too late. Bruce was gone and in his place, was something feral…

What’S In A Booster Pack?

1 New Slasher character piece

1 Character profile card...

Ireland’s Barry Keating wrote screenplay.

Chilean genre TV pilot Embryo has closed a co-production deal with partners in Argentina and Italy as the filmmakers source additional support at the Cannes Marché.

Chile Suspenso, run by Francisco Inostroza and Patricio Valladares, has teamed up with Argentina’s Cruz del Sur run by Mario E. Levit, and Far Away Cine headed by Federico Ricaldoni, and Amedeo Pesce’s Hydra Film from Italy.

Valladares, the genre specialist whose feature credits include Hidden In The Woods, Downhill, and Nightworld: Door Of Hell, directed the pilot, which follows Kevin, whose girlfriend Evelyn gets impregnated...

Blood Window, Argentina’s rapidly growing Latin American genre film market, part of Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur meet-mart, will hold a showcase at Cannes Festival’s Cannes Film Market from March 11 – 14.

Seven works in progress, currently in post-production, will be presented as part of Upcoming Fantastic Films, where ten-minute clips will accompany the presentations. Three finished films will also screen, aimed at representing the best of recent genre Latin American genre filmmaking, with two more participating in the Market Screenings.

Although Blood Window’s beginnings are steeped in blood and gore, the current body of films representing the market goes far beyond the traditional slasher flicks Latin America has nearly perfected, with films of fantasy, science fiction and a slew of different thrillers now participating – an indication of the festival’s maturation and growth.

The three features which will screen at Cannes come from Uruguay and Argentina, Mexico, the latter...

If there is one thing that you cannot blame Chilean director Patricio Valladares of being, it is being lazy. Valladares is hard at work on creating a new Sci-fi/Horror mini series called Embryo, plugging away at the pilot. He has sent over a trio of images for us to share with you, which you will find below. Embryo is a deliriously twisted tale of alien insemination, cannibalism and love that tells the story of Kevin and his girlfriend Evelyn, who, while camping out in the woods in the Chile countryside is abducted and impregnated by otherworldly beings. As the entity inside her begins to grow at a rapid rate, Evelyn discovers that the cravings she’s experiencing can only be satiated by the taste of...

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Sure to cure "the case of the Mondays" is Nightworld, starring Robert Englund and Jason London, which is now on Netflix and headlines today's Horror Highlights. Also: Texas Frightmare Weekend details, Melancholy Star's Starlight Filmmaker Programme, and Monsters in the Closet Kickstarter details.

Nightworld's Netflix Release Details: Press Release: "Nightworld, starring Jason London and horror icon Robert Englund, will be officially available on Netflix North America from February 16, 2017!

The psychological thriller is directed by Patricio Valladares and produced by Bulgarian based film company Open Frames, a subsidiary of Global Group.

In October last year, Nightworld became the first-ever Bulgarian film to enjoy a limited theatrical release in the U.S. The film opened in 11 major American cities and is now available on 20 VOD platforms, like iTunes and Amazon Prime.

Nigthworld is also the very first 100% Bulgarian production to be picked up by Netflix U.S.

“That is a big thing for us,...

Chilean director Patricio Valladares (Downhill and Toro Loco) wrote us today to let us know that his latest horror flick, Night World, starring Jason London and horror icon Robert Englund will arrive on Nerflix Us on February 16th. You will find the trailer below.   When former Lapd officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Once he begins to delve deeper into the building's sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, Brett soon uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into our world.   He...

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It started as a seemingly simple security job, but Brett (Jason London) soon discovers that he's protecting more than just a building, he's protecting the world from something sinister that wants to get out in the new horror film Nightworld. Ahead of the film's release later this month from Gravitas Ventures, we've been provided with an exclusive clip from the movie for Daily Dead readers to enjoy right now.

You can watch Brett come across some eerie tracks in the darkness in our exclusive clip below, and keep an eye out for Nightworld (co-starring the legendary Robert Englund) in select theaters and VOD platforms beginning October 20th from Gravitas Ventures.

Synopsis: "When former cop, Brett Irlam (Jason London, Dazed and Confused), takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Bulgaria’s capital city, Sofia, he immediately begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events.

Gravitas Ventures is set to release Nightworld, starring A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Robert Englund, on October 20, 2017. Both Englund and Jason London are featured in this exclusive clip from Patricio Valladares’ (Hidden in the Woods, the upcoming Downhill) new supernatural horror drama. Here, Englund explains the several Gates of Hell and how they unlock the “Land of the Dead”. Penned by […]...

Chilean director Patricio Valladares has been busy. He has a handful of movies currently in production and two others scheduled for release this year one of which is Nightworld which feels very much like something that spawned from the mind of Stephen King or Clive Barker.

Nightworld stars Jason London as a retired Lapd officer who takes on a job as a security monitor in an old apartment building in Bulgaria's capital. Shortly after taking on the job, he starts to experience unexplained events and as he begins a deep dive into the history of the building, it quickly becomes apparent that something sinister is afloat. Enter Jacob, played by horror staple Robert Englund, the former security guard who left the job after going blind, who offers to help Brett solve the myster [Continued ...]...

"What do you keep back there, King Kong?" Gravitas Ventures has unveiled a trailer for an indie horror thriller film titled Nightworld, from Chilean director Patricio Valladares. The story follows a former Lapd officer who gets a night security job at an old apartment building in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia. But he soon discovers the building has a "malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels" that wants to break free and enter our world. Jason London stars (and he looks a lot like Greg Kinnear), along with horror icon Robert Englund, plus Gianni Capaldi, Lorina Kamburova, Diana Lyubenova, and Atanas Srebrev. This really doesn't look that great, but maybe that's just me. The big door is the coolest part about it. See below. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Patricio Valladares' Nightworld, direct from YouTube: When former Lapd officer Brett Anderson (Jason London) takes a job as head of security...

Gravitas Ventures is set to release Nightworld, starring A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Robert Englund, on October 20, 2017, Bloody Disgusting learned. Both Englund and Jason London star in Patricio Valladares’ (Hidden in the Woods, the upcoming Downhill) new supernatural horror drama, which was filmed in Bulgaria by an international crew. Penned by Barry Keating, Loris […]...

Stars: Jason London, Lorina Kamburova, Robert Englund, Gianni Capaldi, Diana Lyubenova | Written by Loris Curci, Dimitar Hristov, Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic | Directed by Patricio Valadares

As the camera swoops over a chilly boreal wilderness, and Luc Suarez’s brooding music evokes an air of intrigue and menace, it seems like we’re onto a winner. And look, there’s Robert Englund in the credits! That’s a sign of quality, right?

Jason London plays Brett Anderson – an ex-cop rather than an ex-Suede frontman – who is having nightmares about his dead wife, Ana (Diana Lyubenova). So naturally he moves to the Bulgarian capital Sofia and becomes a security camera operative in a creepy basement. A man named Martin (Gianni Capaldi) runs the building on behalf of a shadowy organisation. Brett is kept in the dark about what the organisation actually does – and also about what might be skulking in the giant...

The other day we told you that Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to Nightworld, starring A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Robert Englund. Now, the film will screen at the forthcoming FrightFest in the UK. Check out some new images that come courtesy of the festival. Both Englund and Jason London star in Patricio Valladares’ […]...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to Nightworld, starring A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Robert Englund. Both Englund and Jason London star in Patricio Valladares’ (Hidden in the Woods, the upcoming Downhill) new supernatural horror drama, which was filmed in Bulgaria by an international crew. Penned by Barry Keating, Loris Curci and Milan Konjevic, “When […]...

Exclusive: Horror veteran Robert Englund stars in tale of cursed apartment block.

Gravitas Ventures has acquired Us rights from Vmi Wordwide to paranormal thriller Nightworld starring Robert Englund.

Chilean genre auteur Patricio Valladares, whose credits include Hidden In The Woods and Downhill, directed the film, which shot on location in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Open Frames produced Nightworld, which also stars Jason London and centres on a former Lapd officer who takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building.

When he begins to experience bizarre and terrifying events, the watchman investigates the building’s shadowy owners and past employees, uncovering a malevolent force waiting to erupt.

Englund will be familiar to genre fans as the face of Freddy Krueger, the nemesis from the Nightmare On Elm Street series.

Valladares is in the throes of launching the Suspense! Co-Producer Network set to take place in Concepcion in July.

Vmi Worldwide handles international sales on Nightworld.

Exclusive: Suspense! Co-Producer Network to launch in July.

Patricio Valladares, the Chilean director of Hidden In The Woods and Downhill, and producer Francisco Inostroza are among a coterie of professionals behind next month’s inaugural Suspense! Co-Producer Network.

The event for aspiring genre filmmakers will take place from July 26-28 in Concepcion, Chile, when filmmakers can pitch industry professionals and participate in one-on-one meetings.

The schedule includes round-table networking for producers without a project, panels addressing new trends in genre cinema, and social events.

Three projects will receive co-production deals at a follow-up event in September when judges will consider 10 finallists selected from July.

Valladares (pictured) is on board as industry director and his launch collaborators include Inostroza, Working Place CEO Ricardo Campos, and Luis Aguirre España, CEO of national agency Concepcion Crea y Produce (Ccp).

Partners include Corfo, Working Place, Ccp, government body Comité de Desarrollo Productivo Regional, and Carriel Sur Pictures.

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Englund recently called Nightworld one of the scariest scripts he’s read in a long time. If you attended Robert Englund’s Q&A panel at Monsterpalooza last weekend, you were treated to the world premiere of the new trailer for director Patricio Valladares’ supernatural horror flick Nightworld. The film, starring Englund and Jason London, was recently picked up by […]...

Chilean director Patricio Valladares (Hidden in the Woods) is currently in talks with Us and European co-producers to make a film centered on the Trülke wekufü, a legendary Mapuche creature, according to Screen Daily. Based on an indigenous fable, the… Continue Reading →

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Exclusive: Chilean genre master Patricio Valladares is in early talks with potential Us and European co-producers on a feature based on indigenous myth.

The Trülke wekufü is a grotesque creature of Mapuche legend said to inhabit lakes, lagoons and rivers in Chile’s Bío Bío region.

Made from the skin of several different animals and exhibiting tentacles where the head should be, the beast hunts animals and on occasion humans and sucks dry any prey unfortunate enough to cross its path (concept art pictured.)

Valladares, who collaborated with Paris-based WTFilms on international sales on thriller Downhill, has secured the services of Chilean production services company Byv Media.

The filmmaker told Screen he planned to shoot the feature in the Bio Bio region where the monster as a cross between Porky’s and Friday The 13th.

Valladares recently shot Nightworld, which Vmi Worldwide has been screening to international buyers at the Efm in Berlin. Jason London and [link...

Vmi Worldwide will be bringing the Robert Englund flick Nightworld to Berlin where they will be handling sales. Right now though we have a brand new trailer for you to dig on! Englund stars alongside Jason London in Patricio Valladares’… Continue Reading →

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