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The first trailer for Eyes of the Abyss, a ghostly maritime horror film set during the Falklands War, has been unveiled ahead of its Cannes Market premiere this month. Presented by Black Mandala Films, the Argentina-set thriller blends historical trauma with supernatural dread and will be shown as part of the Fantastic Pavilion Official Selection, following its previous inclusion in the Bif Market’s 2024 Work-in-Progress showcase.

Set aboard a derelict warship adrift in the South Atlantic, Eyes of the Abyss opens with a soldier regaining consciousness amidst a sea of corpses. With her memories fractured and hostile forces descending on the vessel, she is forced to engage in a desperate fight for survival. As the situation grows increasingly unhinged, the film hints at forces beyond the physical world, with haunting echoes of war bleeding into a surreal, ghost-laden confrontation at sea.

Directed with an overtly retro sensibility, the film leans...

Black Mandala Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror film titled Eyes of the Abyss, an Argentinian horror thriller set on the water. This early promo trailer is being released now to build up buzz for the film's sale at the 2025 Cannes Market this month. "On a warship laden with corpses and threatening to sink, the film explores the suffering of those caught between life and death, with bold visual aesthetics and a fragmented narrative that defies the conventions of the genre." 1982, set in the South Atlantic (during the Falklands War). A soldier wakes up aboard a warship surrounded by corpses until soldiers storm the ship, and she must strike with lethal precision in a desperate fight for survival. "Who will dare to face the Eyes of the Abyss?" Starring Verónica Intile, with Carolina Alfonsín, Kevin Schiele, Raymond Lee, Cristian Mariani, Pablo Turturiello, Gustavo Pardi, Pedro Rissi,...

New Zealand-based Black Mandala Films has picked up sales rights to “1978,” a horror film that starts with a soccer match.

The film will have its world premiere on Friday at the Sitges fantasy and horror film festival in Spain. It will have its U.S. festival premiere at Screamfest on Oct. 12.

Directed by Luciano and Nicolás Onetti, from a screenplay by Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti and Camilo Zaffora, the story is set during the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, and against the backdrop of a military dictatorship. A group of torturers breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people before taking them to a clandestine detention center. What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong group of people has been kidnapped. They turn out to be part of a macabre cult guided by an unknown supernatural force and the...

The Sitges Pitchbox program, a horror-fantasy-sci-fi showcase at the festival, took place last Friday. The upcoming Spanish language miniseries El Pulpo Negro (The Black Octopus) participated in the program and yesterday they released to the public the first teaser for the series.   Set in a dimly lit examination room the body of a woman (Abrakadabra's María Eugenia Rigón) is examined by Gustavo Pardi. Miguel Ángel Solá narrates as Pardi cuts into her and discovers something inside her corpse.    As is most often the case, cadavers are quite naked when an autopsy is performed, and this is also true in this teaser. It is a dark and moody trailer but consider it Nsfw due to nudity.   I am very much a fan of...

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Stars: Daniel Alvaredo, Federico Bal, Guido D’Albo, Sofía Del Tuffo, Gustavo Pardi, Carla Quevedo, Marcelo Sein | Written by Nora Leticia Sarti | Directed by Hernán Findling

Directed by Hernan Findling, this Argentinian thriller has an intriguing set-up in its central idea of a detective tasked with solving impossible crimes. However, it quickly becomes clear that the film has precisely zero interest in solving said crimes, instead choosing to tell a painfully over-familiar story that most viewers will guess immediately.

The story centres on Lorenzo Brandoni (Federico Bal), a detective who appears to be the world’s unluckiest man. First, he loses his sister to cancer, and then he crashes his car on the motorway, killing his wife and child. To escape his pain, he throws himself into investigating a series of impossible crimes, such as a woman who’s apparently drowned in a closet. Then a young nun (Sofia del...