It is “If I die before I wake up” (1952), by Carlos Hugo Christensen, in an unusual space: the San Ignacio de Loyola church. There will be more than 60 feature films in the exhibition
Hard to imagine: the Buenos Aires Blood Red Festival has chosen the historic church Saint Ignatius of Loyola as the inaugural venue for its 25th. edition.
The event takes place today, and the opening film is a 1952 Argentine classic in a restored copy, “If I die before I wake up”of Carlos Hugo Christensena distressing suspense film about a creature killer, with expressionist photography by the master Pablo Tabernero and memorable characterization of Homero Carpena (one of the best in his vast gallery of perverse types). The one who pronounces the phrase of the title, and prays, is the then child Nestor Zavarce. In the distribution, Blanca del Prado and Floren Delbenethe good cop.
The rest of the programming will take place at the Multiplex Belgrano. There will be more than 60 feature films, including “The Devil’s Bath” (Severn Fiala & Veronika Franz, Austria), recent top prize at the Sitges Festival, and “1978” (Nicolas and Luciano OnettiArgentina), which is already the revelation of the year with multiple awards. Also, “Portraits of the Apocalypse” (Forte, Castello and Loreti), “The clouds” (Eduardo Pinto), “From within” (Matías Rispau) and “Bionics” (Sebastian Perillo).
They will also be seen “7 lives” (Alejo Rébora), “The summer theme” (Pablo Stoll, Uruguay), “Mother’s embrace” (Cristian Ponce, Brazil), for the only time on the big screen, “(Pri)sons” (Esa Jussila , Finland), “Exhuma” (Jae-Hyun Jang, South Korea), “Párvulos” (Isaac Ezban, Mexico), “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” (Jamie Bailey, Canada), “The Chainsaws Were Singing” (Sander Maran, Estonia), “Death Whisperer 2” (Narit Yuvaboon, Thailand)), and others of diverse appeal and origin (Ireland, USA,
In agreement with Flixxo, a short video platform, from December 1st the short finalists of the “Bloody Weekend” contest will be available, as well as several others that were part of previous editions of the Festival. As for the usual special activities, talks are announced about Freddy Krueger and the journey from audiovisual to video game, an effects master class by Santi Castroand a panel on the evolution of Argentine fantasy cinema over the last 25 years, all with free admission to the Eliseo Subiela Film School.
Pay attention to rescues. In addition to “If I die before I wake up” Other classic titles appear on the programming, such as “Rooms for tourists” (Adrián García Bogliano2004), the recovered “Dr. Lazarus” (Alejandro Jablonskis and Peter Loeb1992) with performance by Norman Briski and narration of Ibáñez Menta, “The Ring” (Hideo Nakata1991), “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven1984), and three with Vincent Price: “The Return of Dr. Phibes” (Robert Fuest1972), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (Roger Corman1960) and “The wax museum” (André De Toth1953), a film that was shown in 3D at the time, to the greater horror of its innocent audience.
Source: Ambito
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