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Satanic Nuns Terrorize in New Trailer for Inspired-By-True-Story Horror Movie ‘The Convent’
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has acquired worldwide sales rights to the Satanic horror film The Convent (El Convento), ahead of its world premiere at Morbido Festival.
An ominous new trailer has arrived ahead of the film’s premiere at the Mexico-based festival on November 1.
The Convent is inspired by the true story of “The Satanic Nuns of Corella” in 1750 and is set in southern Spain, where a sect of unholy nuns sees the perfect womb for the son of the devil.
The official synopsis signals brutal horror ahead: “Lucia and Ana María, two young postulants newly arrived at a small convent, find themselves caught up in the strange events occurring there. Sister Agueda, the Mother Superior, famous for performing small miracles, welcomes them into her community and takes them under her wing.
“However, the nun is actually the epicenter of a series of horrors that will befall the girls, in an attempt to bring the presence of evil to Earth. After enduring horrors, rituals, and rapes, the young women must bravely face their destiny in order to survive.”
Ángel Manuel Chivite and Luis Galindo directed the feature from a screenplay they co-wrote with Jesús Córdoba Acarreta.
The cast includes Ana Álvarez, María Mercado, and Nahia Bergasa.
“We fell in love with the project a while ago and were chasing it for a while with a lot of competitors bidding, making this a hard-to-get gem,” Filmsharks CEO Guido Rud said in a statement. “We are lucky we got this deal closed; already received several offers as the Dark-Nuns sub-genre is evergreen when well directed and produced.”
Check out the new trailer and poster below, and stay tuned for more on The Convent as it arrives.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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