Patricio Valladares, director of Hidden in the Woods and Nightworld, is back with Invoking Yell, which has just been acquired by Welcome Villain Films (Malum).
The news was first reported by Screen Daily this afternoon. No word yet on when Welcome Villain will be releasing the film here in the States, but we’ll keep you posted.
Valladares tells the site, “This film was always meant to be an ode to the found footage films of the 90’s, but with a black metal twist. I’m a big fan of The Blair Witch Project and many other found footage films from that era, and I am also a metalhead, so the subject matter came easy to me. It is incredibly exciting to be teaming up with the amazing group at Welcome Villain to release this special film to the world. We couldn’t be happier with this partnership.”
Welcome Villain head of development Luke LaBeau adds: “We are massive fans of the found footage subgenre and what Patricio and team created is a genuinely unnerving nightmare that stuck with us long after the credits rolled. This is the type of exciting creative vision that not only breathes new life into the subgenre but also proves there are still plenty of terrifying stories to be told in the found footage style.”
The Chilean horror is set in 1997, when a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls venture into the woods to shoot their demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell, while also documenting the eerie and unsettling process of recording psicofonias in the woods.
Maria Jesus Marcone, Macarena Carrere and Andrea Ozuljevich star in Invoking Yell.
Valladares and Barry Keating, whose credits include Downhill, wrote the screenplay.
The film is co-produced by Vallastudio Films and Moral Bros Entertainment. Diego Moral Heimpell is executive producer. Vittorio Farfan and Valladares serve as producers.
Michelle Swope wrote in her review for BD, “Fans of found footage will especially enjoy this film and since the camera work is not the overly shaky style that makes some people feel sick, even those who aren’t huge fans of the subgenre should find something to like in this nightmarish tale.”
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