Basement Hostages, Demon Children, Mad Musicians Possess Cannes’ Blood Window Showcase

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Ed Meza @edmezavarBlood Window, the Latin American genre film platform, returns to the Cannes Film Market this year with a selection of works in progress and completed films, including titles from Brazil and Mexico.Part of Ventana Sur’s genre industry platform, this year’s Blood Window Showcase screens Brazilian director Sabrina Greve’s film debut — still a work in progress — “The Basement of Scream Street” (“O porão da rua do grito”).

The pic won Blood Window’s best work-in-progress competition at Ventana Sur last year, an honor that also granted it a world premiere at this year’s Sitges Film Festival in Spain.“The Basement of Scream Street” centers on siblings Jonas and Rebeca, who, haunted by guilt over their parents’ death, have developed an obsessive dependency on each other as they care for their grandmother and a child trapped in the basement.

Coração da Selva is handling sales for the film. Likewise unspooling in the Cannes showcase will be Mexican helmer Ian Martin’s debut feature “Ghosts and the Last Nightmare” (“Fantasmas y la última pesadilla”), which follows a once successful paranormal investigator trying to resolve a mystery in a building haunted by a dreadful creature in an effort to regain his credibility (poster pictured).The program also presents four other feature film works in progress, including Fabián Forte’s Argentine title “Witch Game” (“Juego de brujas”).

The film tells the story of Mara, a witch in training who is seeking to rescue her sister from the clutches of the devil himself.