The film, which has its origins in movies such as Hitchkonian ‘Psycho’ and opened with John Carpenter’s (1978) ‘Halloween’, followed by the chilling ’13. Friday’ (1980), ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ would come. ‘ (1984), ‘The Scream’ (1996), ‘I know what you did last summer’ (1997) and ‘Bride of Chucky’ (1998), to name a few, ‘cutter(The sub-genre of terror, starring a psychopath who kills a group of adolescents one by one, is called Anglicism.) classic that will cyclically scare new generations.
Netflix is now delving into this issue premiereFrom ‘Guilty Readers Club’ on Friday, August 25thAn adaptation of Carlos García Miranda’s “best-selling” teen horror film, who signed the screenplay for this version of his disturbing work with images directed by Carlos Alonso-Ojea. His characters are brought to life by Veki Velilla (“Love is forever”, “Yrreal”, “García”) and Álvaro Mel (“La otra mirada”, “La Fortuna”, “A Perfect Story”), among other young actors. .
culophobia
The story comes from the head of García Miranda, who already has extensive experience as a screenwriter on TV series such as Physics or Chemistry: Reunion, Protected: The Return, and El Internado. Typical components of the genre: a group of young, healthy, carefree boys whose early deaths are completely unnatural and with a wide variety of profiles (some very prototypical), all (except one) college classmates, We meet to discuss the novels of the master of terror Stephen King. But after a terrible joke, a tragic event occurs that unites them in keeping a secret, and that’s when a killer clown walks in (another classic of the horror genre, appealing to culophobia or the uncontrollable fear of these beings) and destroying them one by one.
The story aims to focus on the psychological aspect that only one can be guilty of, along with moments of horror and brutality with plenty of blood. Then insecurity and unproductive pursuit (they collapse one by one) will settle in and explode their relationship. “It’s not just the physical shock you get, a loud noise, or seeing a dead person, no: The strength of the movie is the psychological thriller” assures the hero. Young players Iván Pellicer, Ane Rot, Carlos Alcaide, Hamza Zaidi and María Cerezuela play the other comrades who make up this fearsome club. Daniel Grao brings a teacher back to life despite being very different from the person he portrayed in the famous TV series ‘HIT’.
mobile, hero
Another element that is not included in these legendary titles but gains great importance is new technologies (mobile phones, computers, Internet…) and social networks. It is so important to the development of the story that one wonders how it could have been told before without these tools (of course they could): “Very well because you are elevating the real society that exists now”, argues Velilla. References ‘I know what you did last summer’ or ‘The Scream’, two movies from years ago, of course that element is not there. But the same energy has been transferred very nicely into the present, and I think it’s a way to reach young people who say otherwise it’s a lie, no one can live without a cell phone anymore. Terror is also caught.