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[Review] ‘Abracitos’ – A Hair-Raising Short Film!
Abracitos is a hair-raising and chilling short film by Director Tony Morales. You may remember Morales’s short films released over the past couple of years, Hada and Black Eyed Child. Abracitos “Hugs” focuses on a phone call in the middle of the night that shakes Laura’s world. Meanwhile, little Ainara plays in her room. The appearance of an unknown being will test the mental and emotional stability of the two sisters.
With a run time of only eleven minutes, Morales delivers a chilling story fueled by character emotion and pure terror. Morales has developed a signature when creating his films. With the eerie lighting, swift camera movements, and emotionally driven characters, I would have known I was watching a Tony Morales film even if no one had told me. With a compelling ending, Abracitos is a film that you will want to watch a few times over, I know I did, and I still jumped and felt the emotion in the all the same spots even though my first viewing experience had vanished.
I did have the chance to ask Morales a few questions regarding his newest horror venture.
ihorror: Where did the idea of Abracitos come from? Did you also write the screenplay?
Tony Morales: The project was born at the 2018 Sitges Festival when I proposed to my friend Fer Zaragoza to write a script together. We began to explore numerous ideas for months until we found the clue and knew where we wanted to go. It is a classic horror story but also influenced by modern horror cinema. We are currently developing the Abracitos movie idea.
iH: What location did you use for filming?
TM: We shot at Loasur studios, it is located in the municipality of Coín (Málaga, Spain). We built a set-in record time and managed to shoot the short film in just one weekend in February, before all the global commotion caused by COVID-19.
iH: What was the most challenging part of filming this short film? How does this film compare to your other short films?
TM: The most difficult part was the one that takes place outside the fabric castle. I think that ‘Abracitos’ is a considerable improvement compared to my other shorts, although they all share the same style, which is there and whoever sees it will know that it is Tony Morales.
– World Premiere: Fantasia International Film Festival
– American Premiere: Screamfest Horror Film Festival
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
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