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‘Venus’ is the second installment of ‘The Fear Collection’ label, specialized in horror films
‘Venus’, directed by Jaume Balagueró, is already filming and is the second installment of ‘The Fear Collection’ label, specialized in horror films. The first in the collection was ‘Veneciafrenia’, directed by Álex de la Iglesia, who is the godfather of this collection.
‘The Fear Collection’ is defined by Álex de la Iglesia as «an ambitious project that I have been thinking about for years. The concept is to make a collection of films that reveal a universe of horror beyond time. The characters face supernatural forces that threaten humanity. The idea is to generate a brand of films with a specific name, cosmic horror».
Balagueró speaks of his film as “exceedingly horror, violent and dirty”. He began filming it in November in Madrid and these days he continues in Toledo. It is inspired by the American story HP Lovecraft, ‘The dreams of the witch’s house’, with the action in a large building on the outskirts of Madrid, which is set in a “dirty environment, of a modern city, with misery and problems, a world close to the sordid”, in the words of the director, who adds: “The public is going to see terror, blood, aberrations and terribly bad people”.
The protagonist of ‘Venus’ is Ester Expósito, an actress who rose to fame thanks to her character in the series ‘Elite’, who affirms that the plot mixes terror and street, “which is what I was looking for, to get away from the stereotype of ‘Elite'”.
Although the plot of ‘Venus’ has not been revealed, it is known that the Lovecraft story on which it is based is about a college math student, steeped in knowledge about the various popular legends and pagan myths. Driven by his scientific curiosity mixed with the knowledge of urban myths, he decides to rent a room in the witch’s house, the place where Keziah Mason lived, an old sorceress who escaped from the Salem courts in 1692 thanks to her ability to cross dimensions by tracing complicated lines and curves on the walls. Hugely captivated by the mysterious ability of the witch, Gilman decides to deepen his mathematical investigations in Keziah’s room, without imagining that he will be prey to the most terrible dreams mixed with reality, which will ultimately lead him to a horrible and unimaginable fate. .
The project was presented at the last Sitges Festival in October, and Balagueró hopes that the film can be presented at this year’s festival. Álex de la Iglesia then highlighted that “it will be horror, there will be blood and monsters. We want it to have an entity. It will be a space that I would like to remind the Hammer cinema, we want to recover the carefree and free spirit of the cinema of the 70s».
‘The Fear Collection’ arose from a partnership between Pokeepsie Films (producer of Álex de la Iglesia and his wife Carolina Bang, and Sony, with the support of Amazon Prime, the platform where these horror films will be seen, regardless of whether they can see them before). After ‘Veneciafrenia’ by Álex de la Iglesia, which was seen in Sitges and awaits a release date, and ‘Venus’, films by Paco Plaza, Paula Ortiz, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Fernando Navarro and Carlos Theron.
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