Following an impressive festival run, including a nomination for Best Pictures at Sitges, Spanish director F. Javier Gutierrez’s chilling film The Wait (aka La Espera) is out today.
This folk horror features a stellar cast, including Victor Clavijo (Before the Fall), Ruth Diaz, Manuel Moron, and Pedro Casablanca.
The Wait follows Eladio (Clavijo), a groundskeeper on a powerful landowner’s estate in the Andalusian countryside. A fateful decision involving a bribe from a hunter unravels Eladio’s life, plunging him into a spiral of guilt, hatred, and a thirst for revenge.
The film is from Gutierrez’s Unfiled Films, Nostromo Pictures (“Penny Dreadful”), and Spal Films (Before the Fall).
Following its premiere at Fantastic Fest, it garnered accolades at festivals worldwide, including Sitges, Shanghai, Vancouver, and Oldenburg. It won over critics, with HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry calling it “gripping” in his festival review.
Director F. Javier Gutierrez is no stranger to the genre. He’s brought you films like Before the Fall and 2017’s Rings. He also served as a producer for the film Demonic, which saw a police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
The Wait, a haunting tale of loss and revenge, premieres on digital and cable VOD, including Apple TV, Prime Video, and Fandango at Home today, October 4, 2024, from Film Movement.
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