German Palacio He is one of the actors who currently has the most work and far from settling in large productions, as we have already seen, he also dives into independent stories that have won awards, such as Vurdalak bloodthe film that takes up vampire myths and opens this Thursday.
“I really liked the story, the story. Apart from the possibility of making a genre film where we wanted to be very careful about the effects,” Palacios told Télam about the adaptation of the story by Santiago Fernández Calvete. The Vurdalak familyby the Russian writer Alexei Tolstoy.
Fernández Calvete has given a turning point and has centered the plot under the wing of the family patriarch (Palacios) and his daughter (Alfonsina Carrocio), who, unaware of the family past, tries to escape the paternal oppression to which he is subjected. brother. , half-sister and nephew.
Director of Triad He decided to transform Tolstoy’s story into an abusive family environment, which, although it does not reach violence and physical abuse, chooses camera shots and settings with messages that go beyond this vampire family story.
“Work the links”
“The project came to me very early – Palacios recalled -. I spoke first with the producer and then with the director. I liked the role of head of the family and its conflict. It seemed to me that it could enrich the film to the extent that we work on the links as a whole with the rest of the actors “.
Palacios’ character is a veterinarian who learned the trade as a child when he arrived in Argentina to live in the countryside. Locked up in his mansion in the middle of nature, he chains doors and windows so that no one can leave or, above all, enter. This secrecy is revealed when a stranger, transformed into some kind of vampire, attacks his daughter on a country road.
There, this father of a family decides to tell what he had kept under lock and key. He belongs to a Slovak family that must suck the blood of their relatives to survive, as long as they have already been infected. A new version of the classic vampirism that has already been seen and read Nosferatu or the different stories surrounding Count Dracula from Romania. Throughout the night, this group must fight against both the external enemy and the distrust that reigns between them.
Vurdalak blood premiered internationally in the Official Fantastic Panorama section of the 53rd Catalonia International Fantastic Film Festival 2020 and has already finalized distribution and sale in the United States and Asia, in another example that horror cinema continues to be a niche that survives in a sector that is suffering more and more.
Fernández Calvete’s film hits theaters after participating in the Blood Window Lab Festival 2018, where it won its first prize, and in 2019, at the same festival, it won the Film Dub Factory award and the Chemistry Laboratories award in Mexico.
It also participated in the BIG / NAFF Festival of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea, one of the leading Asian genre festivals, where it won the Mocha ChaI Laboratory AWARD for best project.
– Taking into account that the characters, especially yours, struggle not to hurt others, do you think the film can be a metaphor for the inner enemy that we can all have or is it a forced vision?
–I think what is interesting about good materials is that they are susceptible of each as a reader, or in this case as a spectator, to make their own associations, to conclude with their own metaphors. This does not happen when the materials are flat. I was particularly interested in the inbred aspect, it seemed to me that in the development of these bonds a series of metaphors that cross time were opened, they are somehow timeless.
-There are also scenes where family abuse creeps in. Do you think that’s kind of what the movie wants to work from the horror genre?
-From a consanguineous family approach, it inevitably ends in a tragic fate, abusive in its very origin. I think it’s not an intention or speculation, but rather something essential that goes to the heart of the story being told.
-You usually work for large production companies and in independent films. What does each world bring to your work as an actor and what do you think you bring to both worlds?
I am open when it comes to work. I usually prioritize whether the story interests me and then, of course, the role in particular. I like it when proposals come lovingly, usually everything is better, like life itself.
From a cable from the Télam agency
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Source: Clarin
