I was excited, and it so happened that Blumhouse is my first stop-my first meeting! Within the conversation of getting to know them and them getting to know me, they brought up their new monthly series Into the Dark, where every episode is a feature-length film that has to do with that month’s holiday. They felt I was more than ready to do general meetings in town at studios. It’s such an amazing story! A totally ‘ right time, right place’ kind of situation! Around this time last year, I signed with my agent at VERVE in L.A. It’s been an exciting couple of years for you! How did you become a part of this project? Photo credit: King-Wei Chu.Ĭongratulations on your first feature! The last time we spoke you were writing a game for Capcom and had just finished filming your series La Quinceañera for Stage 13. Gigi Saul Guerrero poses at Fantasia 2019. Although her July schedule was impossibly busy with both San Diego Comic-Con and Fantasia 2019, she was gracious enough to speak to me about Culture Shock, authenticity, and the films she is most looking forward to seeing this year. Gigi Saul Guerrero is known for her gritty, visually striking approach to horror and takes full advantage of the opportunity to create multiple distinct and wildly different settings in the film, with meticulous attention paid to the smallest details of set design and styling. Her hostess Betty (Barbara Crampton) and her neighbours are friendly and welcoming, her new baby is well-behaved and adorable, and the neighbourhood is the perfect picture of small-town patriotism … yet something insidious seems to be lurking just beneath the surface. As the town’s much-anticipated 4th of July celebrations grow ever closer, Marisol struggles to discover the town’s true purpose-and how she and her fellow travellers can escape this American nightmare. Marisol wakes up the next morning no longer pregnant, in a pastel-painted bedroom in a surreally tranquil American town, unable to remember the rest of her crossing-a situation shared by Ricky and Santo. An unlucky encounter with the Cartel in the desert leads to the group being confronted by the U.S. She’s joined by Ricky (Ian Inigo) a young Guatemalan boy travelling alone, and Santo (Richard Cabral), a mysterious man with many tattoos and even more dark secrets. Determined to cross the border, she tracks down the coyote (Sal Lopez) who’d left her behind on a previous attempt and convinces him to take her with him on his next trip. Marisol (Martha Higareda) dreams of leaving her home in Mexico for the chance to find a better life in America for herself and her unborn child. Culture Shock‘s Independence Day setting is the perfect fit for its dark and incisive reimagining of the country’s all-too-real border crisis. The film, which screened at the Fantasia Film Festival on July 25th, is the tenth instalment of Into the Dark, a monthly horror anthology series produced by Blumhouse and inspired by holidays. As the border between reality and horrific speculative fiction grows ever more permeable with each news cycle, Gigi Saul Guerrero’s Culture Shock (2019) looks to current headlines for its ghastly inspiration.
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