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‘Orphange’ Producers Seek Out Paranormal in ‘Scars’
Rodar y Rodar (The Orphanage, Julia’s Eyes) is in pre-production on a new Spanish-language horror thriller entitled Scars (Cicatrices) that will be directed by Sergi Viscaino. Penned by Daniel Padro, the pic follows a group of university students, lead by Angela, who set up camp in an abandoned town to investigate possible paranormal occurrences. Events take a turn with the appearance of a specter that harasses them incessantly, a specter only Angela’s sister Diana, is able to perceive. You can find the long synopsis we got our hands on by reading below.
“Angela, the lead, is studying medicine and believes herself capable of nearly anything. Diana, her friend, is extremely sensitive and receptive. They are sisters and share a mutual bond — They loathe each other.
Angela, pressured by her eccentric teacher, Dr. Fuentes, goes to investigate the paranormal activities taking place in a village called Susurro with its own legend, a dead murderer, Dr. Amado, webbed in rumors. Carlos, her boyfriend, Belen, Toni and Jose are ready to go with her. All she’s missing is a means of transport, and her sister has a van.
Diana has a strange variety of epilepsy which can’t be controlled and makes her suffer constant attacks. Her therapist believes the attacks may be related to Angela. Diana decides to go to Susurro with Angela and face her fears.
When they arrive at the village, they discover things that could be taken as natural or supernatural. Diana starts seeing Dr. Amado’s ghost after a hypnosis session. But she’s the only one that does. Carlos, Angela’s boyfriend, disappears. The group flounders between supposedly supernatural happening and constant discussions. Meanwhile, Dr. Amado’s hold on Diana grows… Up to the point that she becomes a murderer.
Angela has no choice but to face her sister and her own doubts. Is Diana possessed? Or has she created a violent uncontrolled alter ego? Can she face something she can’t even see?
Angela, lost in a strange village, will have to choose. Should she save her life or her sister’s?“
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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