Stars: Daniel Martínez, Lisette Morelos, Paulina Gil, Horacio Garcia Rojas, Arap Bethke, Matías del Castillo, Ramón Medína, José Luis Badalt | Written by Michael Caissie, Rigoberto Castañeda | Directed by Rigoberto Castañeda
Written by Michael Caissie (Hunter’s Moon) and adapted and directed by Rigoberto Castaneda (Blackout), Origin Unknown – aka Sin Origen – is a mash-up of horror and cartel-crime thriller, like Narcos had a baby with Let the Right One In and From Dusk Till Dawn. It’s a curious combo, and one that works very well, with a guy attempting to leave a cartel so he can move on to a normal life with his wife and kids. Of course, this doesn’t exactly go smoothly, and while this is all happening there’s a young girl being hunted by warriors with big ole medieval weapons. It takes gangsters and vampires and creates something pretty damn unique.
It isn’t all mindless action,...
Written by Michael Caissie (Hunter’s Moon) and adapted and directed by Rigoberto Castaneda (Blackout), Origin Unknown – aka Sin Origen – is a mash-up of horror and cartel-crime thriller, like Narcos had a baby with Let the Right One In and From Dusk Till Dawn. It’s a curious combo, and one that works very well, with a guy attempting to leave a cartel so he can move on to a normal life with his wife and kids. Of course, this doesn’t exactly go smoothly, and while this is all happening there’s a young girl being hunted by warriors with big ole medieval weapons. It takes gangsters and vampires and creates something pretty damn unique.
It isn’t all mindless action,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Genre festival has set a new opening film after cancelling its physical edition.
UK genre festival Frightfest has extended its programme and set a new opening film for this year’s edition after deciding to move the event online.
The festival was due to take place in London from October 22-25, opening with South Korean zombie thriller Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula, but was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.
Festfest 2020 will now take place virtually across the same dates, opening with the world premiere of US horror Held, directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the filmmaking duo behind The Gallows franchise.
UK genre festival Frightfest has extended its programme and set a new opening film for this year’s edition after deciding to move the event online.
The festival was due to take place in London from October 22-25, opening with South Korean zombie thriller Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula, but was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.
Festfest 2020 will now take place virtually across the same dates, opening with the world premiere of US horror Held, directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the filmmaking duo behind The Gallows franchise.
- 10/1/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Origin Unknown is a Mexican shot horror feature. Featuring mystical creatures with fangs, this film is from Rigoberto Castañeda (Km-31). Focusing on a former Cartel drug-runner, this character is turning on his former employers. But, he has been targeted by a supernatural group, who hope to silence him forever. Also known as Sin Origen or Unsourced, this title stars: Daniel Martinez ("El Senor de los Cielos"), Lisette Morelos, Paulina Gil and many others. A trailer has just been released for Origin Unknown (linked below), along with a movie poster (found here). The North American graphic, from Raven Banner Entertainment, shows several of the film's characters. Many bare their fangs, other characters must use more medieval weapons, to fight. Framed in blood spray, this graphic highlights some of the film's action elements. Raven Banner will bring this title to North American audiences soon. A film from a prolific Mexican director, Origin Unknown looks to.
- 6/29/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
An army of the undead along the U.S.-Mexico border will collide with drug lords and the American military in “Narcos vs Zombies,” a Mexican TV production coming to Amazon Prime Video in 2020.
Amazon announced “Narcos vs Zombies,” an eight-episode series that blends sci-fi, horror and action genres, will be available exclusively next year on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including Mexico and the rest of Latin America. The series is produced by Dynamo and Red Creek Productions.
The action-drama series is a Mexican production created and written by Nicolas Entel (“Pecados De Mi Padre”) and Miguel Tejada Flores and directed by Rigoberto Castañeda. Entel serves as showrunner.
“Narcos vs Zombies” stars Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Fátima Molina, Horacio García Rojas, Nery Arredondo (“Vuelven”) and Adria Morales (“La Reina Soy Yo”).
In “Narcos vs Zombies,” legendary narco kingpin Alonso Marroquín (Peris-Mencheta) escapes from a high-security Mexican prison...
Amazon announced “Narcos vs Zombies,” an eight-episode series that blends sci-fi, horror and action genres, will be available exclusively next year on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including Mexico and the rest of Latin America. The series is produced by Dynamo and Red Creek Productions.
The action-drama series is a Mexican production created and written by Nicolas Entel (“Pecados De Mi Padre”) and Miguel Tejada Flores and directed by Rigoberto Castañeda. Entel serves as showrunner.
“Narcos vs Zombies” stars Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Fátima Molina, Horacio García Rojas, Nery Arredondo (“Vuelven”) and Adria Morales (“La Reina Soy Yo”).
In “Narcos vs Zombies,” legendary narco kingpin Alonso Marroquín (Peris-Mencheta) escapes from a high-security Mexican prison...
- 11/5/2019
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Great news! It’s official that the crew behind Diablero Season 1 are working on a new season, although no release date has been given. So while we are waiting on that news, we took the opportunity to speak to one of the directors of the hit show, Rigoberto Castañeda. We discuss his attraction to the […] The post Interview: Diablero’s Rigoberto Castañeda on Creepy Sets, His Favorite Character, and What’s Next appeared first on Dread Central.
- 5/17/2019
- by Zena Dixon
- DreadCentral.com
Eight years on, the successful 2007 Mexican horror favorite Km. 31 is getting a sequel. Director Rigoberto Castañeda returns to helm Km. 31: Sin Retorno, announced in a creeper of a trailer. Dark, stormy and plenty eerie, Km. 31: Sin Retorno sees the return of star Ilana Fox. Fox played a pair of sisters in…
The post Km. 31: Sin Retorno: Creeper of a Trailer for Mexican Horror Sequel appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
The post Km. 31: Sin Retorno: Creeper of a Trailer for Mexican Horror Sequel appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
- 7/1/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Kilómetro 31 director Rigoberto Castañeda is a busy, busy man.
Shortly after the success of feature film debut, he followed with another horror film but since the 2007 release of Blackout, we haven’t heard much from the director. For a while there was talk that he was working on a follow up to Kilómetro 31 which would take place a few years after the events of the first film but that project seems to be stuck, for the moment at least, in some sort of development limbo. That’s not stopping Castañeda who currently has two other projects in development.
The first of the duo is Lázaro, a psychological thriller about a single mother who, after a mysterious death changes her life, escapes to the small town of Lázaro to rebuild her life. There isn’t much information on what makes this a psychological thriller though I expect she’s likely being following by someone or something.
Shortly after the success of feature film debut, he followed with another horror film but since the 2007 release of Blackout, we haven’t heard much from the director. For a while there was talk that he was working on a follow up to Kilómetro 31 which would take place a few years after the events of the first film but that project seems to be stuck, for the moment at least, in some sort of development limbo. That’s not stopping Castañeda who currently has two other projects in development.
The first of the duo is Lázaro, a psychological thriller about a single mother who, after a mysterious death changes her life, escapes to the small town of Lázaro to rebuild her life. There isn’t much information on what makes this a psychological thriller though I expect she’s likely being following by someone or something.
- 7/26/2010
- QuietEarth.us
A sequel to Km 31: Kilometro 31, a clever updating of the legend of La Llorona and Mexico’s highest-grossing genre film ever, is definitely on its way, according to writer/director Rigoberto Castañeda. “The new film will pick up exactly where the first one left off, with Agata waking up and screaming, ‘My children! Where are my children?!’ ” Castañeda, who also directed the U.S.-produced thriller Blackout, tells Fango. “But the camera keeps moving instead of cutting away, and we find out she’s at the graveyard. Then we cut to a few years later.”
Slated for release sometime next year, the still-untitled follow-up promises more of the stylish suspense and creepy atmospherics that made the original (pictured, and available on DVD in the States via DistriMax and Navarre) a hit amongst genre aficionados, but with a bit of a twist. “Let’s just say it switches genres a little bit,...
Slated for release sometime next year, the still-untitled follow-up promises more of the stylish suspense and creepy atmospherics that made the original (pictured, and available on DVD in the States via DistriMax and Navarre) a hit amongst genre aficionados, but with a bit of a twist. “Let’s just say it switches genres a little bit,...
- 4/20/2009
- Fangoria
- Fifity is nifty for Carlos Reygadas and his Cannes-winning 3rd film Silent Light (Luz Silenciosa). Winning in the top categories (best film, director, supporting actress, cinematography (Alexis Zabé) and original screenplay, this was the 50th edition of the annual Ariel Awards, a.k.a the Mexican Oscars. Reygadas' film is set in the Chihuaha state, community of Mennonites. Johan, married to Esther, with seven sons from her, has been having a passionate love affair with Marianne for 2 years. Deciding between two lives, and between two women, is impossibile. He opens his heart to his friend, Zacaris and to his father, a preacher, who sees it as the devil’s work. Neverthless, both of them support him, pity him. And envy him. Another big winner was Rigoberto Castañeda's horror film Km 31 and the Ibero American Ariel went to Xxy by Argentina's Lucia Puenzo (this is receiving a domestic release
- 3/27/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Amber Tamblyn has signed on to star in Blackout, an indie thriller being directed by Rigoberto Castaneda. Simon O'Leary and Valerio Morabito are producing. The script, by Ed Dougherty and Morabito, revolves around three people who are trapped in a hospital elevator for almost 24 hours as what at first seems like an inconvenience turns into a nightmare. Tamblyn will play a young woman who is trying to get to her grandmother in the hospital who is moments away from death.
- 10/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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