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From the Director of Rings Comes the Chilling Folk Horror ‘The Wait’

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) has unveiled its first trailer. This folk horror thriller features a stellar cast, including Victor Clavijo (Before the Fall), Ruth Diaz, Manuel Moron, and Pedro Casablanca (Strange Way of Life). 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” and “directed superbly” in his festival review. Critics have lauded the film’s intensity. The Wait has been described