Belen Rueda

The Shifting Genres of J.A. Bayona’s ‘The Orphanage’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, J.A. Bayona, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Podcasts, Roger Príncep, The Orphanage

Scary Sad. Horror Queers Podcast has spent October celebrating 30 years of To Die For (listen), 50 years of Cronenberg’s feature debut Shivers (listen) and the ingenuity of the Chiodo Brothers’ Killer Klowns from Outer Space (listen). Now we’re closing out scary season with a classic contemporary ghost story with J.A. Bayona‘s The Orphanage (2007). In the […]

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‘The Chapel’ Offers Great Performances and Muddled Supernatural Thrills [Fantasia Review]

Joe Lipsett Albert Bertran Bas, Belen Rueda, Carlota Pereda, Carmelo Viera, Fantasia 2024, Loreto Mauleón, Maia Zaitegi, Reviews

Seeing isn’t always believing in The Chapel, the latest film from Piggy writer/director Carlota Pereda. Written by Pereda, as well as Albert Bertran Bas and Carmelo Viera, The Chapel is a supernatural drama about intergenerational trauma between mothers and their daughters. The film opens in 1631 in a small Spanish town that is besieged by […]

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