Variety shares a sales teaser trailer for Chilean horror maestro Jorge Olguin‘s sci-fi horror film The Shape of Fear (La Forma del Miedo), described as a cross between “The Andromeda Strain” and The Thing.
Juan Carlos Maldonado (“The Prince”) and Ivan Alvarez de Araya (“The Replacement”) star.
Olguín, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the soundtrack of the film, noted to the site: “Without a doubt, the feeling of fragility that we experience with this new disease (COVID-19) and the social changes that are emerging in the world as a result, inspired me to write this film.
“To achieve this analogy, I placed the story in the dreamlike environment of the Atacama Desert where architecture and science appear fragile and vulnerable in the midst of an imposing landscape where nature can be ruthless with humans and their technology,” he said, adding: “All this takes place during a cosmic phenomenon that will forever alter the world we know.”
“The hospital where our protagonist works will be ‘the ship,’ which under the starry night skies of the Atacama Desert, will see her confront this unknown microscopic antagonist who will shatter all her scientific and rational preconceptions,” he told Variety.
The Shape of Fear is produced by Carol Campos of Atacama Films. Chris Sablan of Avenue 220 and Patricio Ochoa of La Merced Prods. serve as executive producers.