Blue Finch Movies has picked up worldwide gross sales rights to “Bowels of Hell,” a genre-bending horror movie set to make its world premiere on the Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam this month. The U.Okay. gross sales and distribution firm secured worldwide rights excluding Brazil and plans to start market screenings at Berlin’s European Movie Market in February.
The movie facilities on Malu, whose struggles with unresolved trauma and a troublesome baby take a nightmarish flip when an inexplicable curse brings bathrooms to life as murderous creatures, plunging her right into a weird realm the place maternal duties, loss and existential dread intertwine.
Gustavo Vinagre and Gurcius Gewdner co-wrote and co-directed the venture. Vinagre earned the Berlinale Teddy Award for “Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter,” whereas Gewdner helmed “Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair.” Brazilian powerhouse RT Options produced via Rodrigo Teixeira, Berta Marchiori and Tereza Alvarez. The corporate’s credit span Oscar-winning titles together with “Name Me by Your Identify,” “I’m Nonetheless Right here” and “The Witch.”
Netflix’s “Pedaço de Mim” actor Martha Nowill takes the lead. Supporting gamers embody Otávio Müller (“Alemão: Each Sides of the Operation”), Chandelly Braz (Netflix’s “Maria e o Cangaço”), Marco Pigossi (SXSW choice “Excessive Tide”), Regina Braga (“Deus Nos Acuda”) and Olivia Torres (Oscar winner “I’m Nonetheless Right here”). Brazilian veteran Maria Gladys (“Rat Fever”) and director Bruce LaBruce spherical out the solid.
“We made ‘Bowels of Hell’ out of a deep affection for horror and with the playful sensibility of childhood — an area the place concern turns into tender, and creativeness turns darkness into one thing unusually loving,” mentioned Vinagre and Gewdner.
Mike Chapman of Blue Finch Movies referred to as the venture “each a provocative and daring piece of filmmaking from Gustavo and Gurcius. Combining jaw dropping style moments and profound themes, it should stick to viewers for a mess of causes.”
Different titles on Blue Finch’s slate embody Incredible Fest premiere “Dolly,” Jessica Rothe-led sci-fi horror “Affection” and George MacKay starrer “Mission,” a BBC Movie manufacturing.
