The aliens are us, the stunning new poster for sci-fi horror movie Pacifico warns ahead of its debut at Cannes this week.
Pacifico follows “a group of young travelers is stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil alien presence that has been hidden from mankind for centuries.”
The official key art calls Alien‘s Space Jockey to mind, injecting a sense of scale that teases what’s described as the biggest Spanish-language sci-fi adventure film ever made, with a reported budget of 10M USD.
Visual effects artist Gonzalo Gutierrez (El Conde, The Exorcism of God) directs from a script by Natacha Caravia, Luis E. Langlemey, Constanza Cabrera, and Lucila Podestá.
Ricardo Abarca (Miss Bala), María Gabriela de Faría (Superman), Christopher Von Uckermann (“Demon”), Manolo Cardona (“Narcos”), María Nela Sinisterra (Penumbra), Diana Neira, Claudio Cataño (“One Hundred Years of Solitude”), Patricia Castañeda, Francesca Luce Cardinale, and Sofía Blanchet star.
Mauricio Brunetti of Patagonia Films and Guido Rud of FilmSharks produce. Florencia Lemoine serves as executive producer.
Gutiérrez is a self-taught VFX artist who has made waves internationally with his sci-fi short “Underland: The Last Surfacer,” which was widely compared with Fede Alvarez and his “Panic Attack!” breakout short. He’s also a founding member of Argentina’s VFX association and brings that technical mastery to this ambitious, practical-heavy, realistic VFX vision.
In other words, this sci-fi creature feature will be an ambitious blend of VFX and practical effects.
“Top tier buyers are chasing this title, and we aim to announce many key territories shortly,” producer Guido Rud said out of Cannes, so expect to hear more about release plans soon.
