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‘The Shape of Fear’ Sales Trailer a Hybrid of ‘The Thing’ and “The Andromeda Strain” [Video]
Variety shares a sales teaser trailer for Chilean horror maestro Jorge Olguin‘s sci-fi horror film The Shape of Fear (La Forma del Miedo), described as a cross between “The Andromeda Strain” and The Thing.
Juan Carlos Maldonado (“The Prince”) and Ivan Alvarez de Araya (“The Replacement”) star.
Olguín, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the soundtrack of the film, noted to the site: “Without a doubt, the feeling of fragility that we experience with this new disease (COVID-19) and the social changes that are emerging in the world as a result, inspired me to write this film.
“To achieve this analogy, I placed the story in the dreamlike environment of the Atacama Desert where architecture and science appear fragile and vulnerable in the midst of an imposing landscape where nature can be ruthless with humans and their technology,” he said, adding: “All this takes place during a cosmic phenomenon that will forever alter the world we know.”
“The hospital where our protagonist works will be ‘the ship,’ which under the starry night skies of the Atacama Desert, will see her confront this unknown microscopic antagonist who will shatter all her scientific and rational preconceptions,” he told Variety.
The Shape of Fear is produced by Carol Campos of Atacama Films. Chris Sablan of Avenue 220 and Patricio Ochoa of La Merced Prods. serve as executive producers.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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