13 MAY 2016
Retrospective... Toward Macabro's XV Years. Saturday, May 21
CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN HORROR
12:00 Angeluz | Director: Leopoldo Laborde | Mexico | 1998 | 108 min. | Blu-ray | Spanish
Synopsis: A young student turns out to be the last of an animal species that has been extinct since the Middle Ages, called Angeluz, whose body is the battleground between an angel and a demon. A scientist tries to capture him to study his strange case.
17:00 La segunda muerte|The Second Death|Director: Santiago Fernández Calvete| Argentina| 2012| 91 min|Blu-ray/DVD|Spanish|
Synopsis: A small town, a boy with supernatural powers, a policewoman looking to solve a series of crimes, corpses that have been cremated. And the strange apparition of the Virgin Mary in each of these cases. All these elements make up the puzzle of La segunda muerte, a supernatural thriller that blends the most classic elements of crime fiction with a somewhat apocryphal take on horror with religious undertones.
19:30 Trash 2: Las Tetas de Ana L. |Director: Alejo Rébora | Argentina | 2013 | 88 min. |Language: Spanish
Synopsis: The day after getting her brother into the second worst trouble of his life, Ana Ele Bruselas escapes her mobster captors, unable to take with her the severed breasts given as payment for "a certain box of illegal contents not delivered on time." Drugs, sex, and violence in a frenzied succession of madness ranging from unbalanced taxi drivers to steroid-crazed skinheads, from unscrupulous abortionists to semen tasters.
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