#MacabroEnPuebla: Complete Program

Macabro returns for the third year in a row to the city of Puebla, thanks to an invitation from IMAP and Cinefilia to bring the madness of our most recent edition. Here is the full program:

Tuesday 5

La sexta alumna | Dir. Benjamín de la Rosa | Spain | 2016 | 75 min

Mina del Río lives with her uncle, immersed in the boredom of the town. Mina dreams of being a movie star and a great actress, so one day she decides to send an application to the best acting school in Madrid, where she is accepted.

Forward | Dir. Henry Bedwell | Mexico | 2016 | 91 min.

Tomás and Marco, two hitmen hired to “settle” their boss's unfinished business, arrive at a strange abandoned hotel where their worst nightmares will come to life and lead them through an endless labyrinth.

With director Henry Bedwell in attendance.

Thursday 8

Outdoor screening:

Dawn of the Dead | Dir. George A. Romero | USA | 1978 | 126 min.

The epidemic that brings the dead back to life as beings hungry for human flesh has spread across the United States, leaving cities nearly deserted. To survive, a group of people finds temporary refuge in a shopping mall while they wait to be rescued.

Tuesday 12

Macabróstica Vol. 2

Fresh out of the sewers of Neo-Bilbao (Basque Country), comes this delicious selection of the best Basque short films from the Caostica International Short Film and Music Video Festival, which inexplicably has turned 15 editions old this past June.

Total running time: 79 min

Ulises by Aitor Gutiérrez (17 min)

False Flag by Asier Urbieta (11 min)

I said I'll never talk about politics by Aitor Oñederra (11 min)

Ttarttalo by Koldo Almandoz (5 min)

Cirilo by Rubén Sainz (13 min)

My private dance alone by Pablo Hernando (3 min)

Devil in your back by Haritz Zubillaga (5 min)

Viaje a piés by Khris Cembe (14 min)

Freddy Eddy | Dir. Tini Tüllmann | Germany | 2016 | 94 min.

Freddy finds himself in the midst of an existential crisis after his wife accuses him of abuse. As his world collapses, his childhood imaginary friend, Eddy, reappears.

Tuesday 19

Mexican Short Film Selection Macabro XVI

Running time: 75 minutes.

For the third year in a row, Macabro presents at the Nox Film Festival a showcase of the official Mexican selection that competed for the Macabro Jade Award for best Mexican horror short film.

Necrópolis | Dir. Mateo Granillo | Mexico | 2016 | 20 min.

Devastated by the death of his beloved Eva, Andrés makes a pact with a ghost: if he passes three trials, the ghost will bring his wife back to life. If he fails, he will have to give up one of his eyes.

Sobrevivir | Dir. Omar Alcalá | Mexico | 2017 | 5 min.

In the year 2012, a virus kills half of humanity and turns them into zombies. Noah and Ed, two survivors fleeing a horde of monsters, take refuge in an abandoned warehouse, only to realize they are not the only ones there.

Despierta | Dir. Sinhué Benavides | Mexico | 2016 | 3 min.

A young woman awakens to the sound of her own conscience. Despite having been held captive for some time, she has a plan to escape her reality without knowing her fate.

La Rabia de Clara | Dir. Michelle Garza | Mexico | 2016 | 21 min.

Clara is bitten by a rabid dog, so she must be locked in a cabin with her mother and husband for 40 days. As the whole town is attacked by the pack of wild dogs, Clara's confinement drives her to a desperate desire for freedom, though to escape she must overcome her family's fear.

De Familia | Dir. Adrián Pallares | Mexico | 2017 | 25 min.

A woman who collects scrap metal finds a cylinder in the radiology room of an abandoned hospital. Not knowing what it is, she brings it home to her family. Everyone is thrilled with the find, believing that selling it could help them get ahead, but the situation worsens when the cylinder begins to change them from within; the violence escalates as they fall ill from the radiation it gives off.

Tierra y Luz | Original title: Terra e luz | Dir. Renné Franca | Brazil | 2017 | 74 min.

In the near future, humanity is on the brink of extinction because of vampires. Night is deadly, but one man will do whatever it takes to restore human dominion over the earth.

Tuesday 26

El Vecino | Dir. Giancarlo Ruíz | Mexico | 2016 | 76 min.

Raúl suffers from a severe psychological disorder. When he finds out that the couple on the floor below is having problems, he starts meddling in their life because he wants what they have: a relationship.

La Noche del Virgen | Dir. Roberto San Sebastián | Spain | 2016 | 118 min.

Nico, a timid twenty-something with no sexual experience, is determined to lose his virginity at any cost on New Year's Eve. He ends up meeting Medea, an attractive older woman who takes him back to her apartment.

Also:

MASTERCLASS

"Creating a Horror Screenplay Step by Step" by Sandra Becerril.

Writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker Sandra Becerril will lead a masterclass that draws on the analysis of classic genre films to better understand the construction and structure of a horror screenplay. Aimed at anyone interested in developing a horror screenplay. Through theoretical and practical material, the different tools of screenwriting will be demonstrated.

Topics: Character creation, atmosphere creation, dialogue, outline, the sequence, structure, synopsis, plot. Step-by-step creation. A horror short story (Economía) will be shown, along with its transformation into a screenplay, the film's breakdown, and finally the finished short film.