Red Screening

Red Screening (Spanish: Al morir la matinée) is an Uruguayan horror film directed by Maximiliano Contenti and written by Justin Bull.[2] The film was released on November 26, 2020 and had as main actors Luciana Grasso, Ricardo Islas, Julieta Spinelli and Franco Durán. The interior scenes are filmed in the Cinemateca 18 room, which was called Nuevo 18 in 1993. The role of "Come Ojos" is played by Ricardo Islas, one of the pioneers of Uruguayan horror cinema, director in 2011 of Frankenstein: el día de la bestia whose poster is shown in fiction in the hall of the room.[3]

Red Screening
Film poster
SpanishAl morir la matinée
Directed byMaximiliano Contenti
Produced by
  • Maximiliano Contenti
  • Alina Kaplan
  • Lucía Gaviglio Salkind
Written by
  • Manuel Facal
  • Maximiliano Contenti
Starring
  • Luciana Grasso
  • Ricardo Islas
  • Julieta Spinelli
  • Franco Durán
Music byHernán González
CinematographyBenjamín Silva
Edited bySantiago Bednarik
Production
companies
  • Yukoh Films
  • Pensa&Rocca Cine
  • La Gota Cine
Release date
  • 3 September 2020 (2020-09-03)[1]
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUruguay
LanguageSpanish

Plot

A stormy night, a movie theater in decline, Montevideo in 1993 with its usual projectionist replaced by his daughter. The few viewers do not know that a murderer is lurking with the intention of killing.[3]

Director's statements

Maximiliano Contenti declared that "I wanted to make a film that was a tribute to these two forms of horror cinema but I also wanted to pay tribute to the movie theater, to the ceremony of going to see a movie in a theater, to the dark, to the mystery that projections have, which is something we may be saying goodbye to", referring to terrifying cinema, he stated that he believed "that it is the most universal genre, it is also one of the first cinematographic genres and it has no borders: fear, the mystery, the terror of the unknown and of death connects with the whole world".[4]

Cast
  • Luciana Grasso as Ana
  • Ricardo Islas as Come Ojos
  • Julieta Spinelli as Anglea
  • Franco Durán as Tomás
  • Pedro Duarte as Mauricio
  • Yuly Aramburu as Maria Julia
  • Hugo Blandamuro as Hugo
  • Daiana Carigi as Maite (Brooke Shields)
  • Valeria Martínez Eguizabal as Diego's Mother
  • Lucas Fressero as Boy playing
  • Vladimir Knazevs as Goni
  • Juan Carlos Lema as Viejo
  • Fernán Moliv as Policeman
  • Patricia Porzio as Gabriela
  • Emanuel Sobré as Horacio

Awards

It won the award for the Best Ibero-American Fantastic Film at the Curtas Festival do Imaxinario 2020. It was a candidate for Best Latin American Film at the 2020 Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[5]

References
  1. Yeste, Víctor (September 24, 2020). "Tráiler de «Al Morir la Matinee», terror uruguayo". hellofriki.com (in Spanish). Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  2. Grater Prieto, Tom (June 10, 2020). "Reel Suspects Boards Uruguayan Horror 'Al Morir La Matinee' Ahead Of Cannes Virtual Marche". Variety. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  3. Vázquez Prieto, Paula (November 25, 2020). "Al morir la matinée: con los colores del giallo". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  4. "El filme de terror uruguayo "Al morir la matinée" llega a la plataforma Cine.ar" (in Spanish). November 24, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  5. "Al morir la matinée - Mar del Plata International Film Festival". Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
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