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Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban got back from this year's Cannes Film Festival, where his - very, very good - debut feature length film The Incident (El Incidente) premiered, and immediately began working on the pre-production for his next project, the science fiction effort The Similars (Los Parecidos). Movie theaters in Mexico lack genre cinema but Ezban is working his way up to solve that problem, and now Twitch is proud to reveal the first details for The Similars. First of all, we've got the casting announcement: The cast for The Similars (Los Parecidos) is formed by Gustavo Sánchez Parra (Matando Cabos, Amores Perros), Cassandra Ciangherotti (Tlatelolco, Verano de 68, Cantinflas, Even the Rain, Viaje Redondo), Fernando Becerril (Km 31: Kilometre 31, Depositaries), Humberto Busto (Amores Perros,...

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A sequel to Km 31: Kilometro 31, a clever updating of the legend of La Llorona and Mexico’s highest-grossing genre film ever, is definitely on its way, according to writer/director Rigoberto Castañeda. “The new film will pick up exactly where the first one left off, with Agata waking up and screaming, ‘My children! Where are my children?!’ ” Castañeda, who also directed the U.S.-produced thriller Blackout, tells Fango. “But the camera keeps moving instead of cutting away, and we find out she’s at the graveyard. Then we cut to a few years later.”

Slated for release sometime next year, the still-untitled follow-up promises more of the stylish suspense and creepy atmospherics that made the original (pictured, and available on DVD in the States via DistriMax and Navarre) a hit amongst genre aficionados, but with a bit of a twist. “Let’s just say it switches genres a little bit,...