El Estudio, Morbido, Sula Unleash The Latin House of Horror (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent El Estudio and Morbido are launching The Latin House of Horror, a hugely ambitious feature film slate channelling the voices of a powerful new generation of genre directors – and indeed writers – emerging in Spain and, most especially, Latin America.

The slate is designed to supercharge genre production in Latin America, in ambition, profile and exports, just as Filmax’s Fantastic Factory did a generation ago in Spain, El Estudio producer Enrique López Lavigne told Variety.

Mexico’s Sula Films, headed by Mexican producer Alejandro Sugich (“Los Hermanos Salvador”), will also produce the series. Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment is handling world sales.

Announced at Cannes, the House’s first slate of six movies features established talent such as Adrián García Bogliano (“Here Comes the Devil,” “La Exorcista”), a founding figure of modern Argentine scarefare, now based out of Mexico; and Isaac Ezban, who rapidly established a reputation for films wrapped in hauntingly surreal scenarios: Think “The Incident” and “The Similars.” One slate highlight looks set to be Michelle Garza Cevera’s “That Summer in the Dark,” a follow-up to “Huesera,” her highly lauded feature debut – “a terrifying, bone-breaking body horror nightmare,” said Variety – which questioned received wisdom on motherhood, overturning commonplaces of genre cinema such as the concept of monstrosity.