EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for writer-director Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid, a contemporary horror fable set against the despairing backdrop of Mexico’s violent dru…
a contemporary horror fable set against the despairing backdrop of Mexico’s violent drug wars but presented in a way that manages to be grim and modern but also lyrical, evocative, and eerie.
A 10-year-old named Estrella is one of the thousands of orphans of cartel violence but she alone is given a unique chance to rewrite her destiny when she is granted three magic wishes. Will she wish death on the cartel killers who hunt her and her street cohorts? Or wish for justice for her murdered parents? Her choice, unfortunately, is made by her aching grief: Estrella wishes for the return of her dead mother…and gets exactly that.
Shudder, the AMC Networks’ streaming service devoted to horror and thrillers, and its theatrical partner, Variance Films, will unleashon Aug. 23 in select theaters in Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto. The fantasy-informed parable gets an expanded theatrical release in September which will be followed in short order by the movie’s premiere on Shudder the same month.The film is informed by the enduring dysfunction that straddles the U.S.-Mexican border but only in the long-view perspective.
“The stories of these children fighting for survival just across the border, and the dreams and nightmares that follow them, is one that needs to be told now more than ever,”López said. “Fantasy and horror are sometimes the best vehicle to tell the most vital stories. With, I set out to do just that… and in putting it on the screen Shudder is letting this story be heard. I couldn’t be happier or prouder.
Marco Polo Constandse’s Filmadora Nacional and Issa Lopez’s Peligrosa are the film’s producers. Lopez is represented by Paradigm and Hirsch Wallerstein.
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