If you’re someone reading this website, odds are you’re a pretty big film fan. And as a film fan, you’ve likely seen a million trailers. In those trailers, you’re probably aware of the pull-quotes featured, which show excerpts of reviews from critics that are supposed to hype you up for the project. Well, for “Tigers Are Not Afraid,” there are plenty of those quotes, telling you how great the upcoming horror film is, but it’s not just critics saying so. This film has bonafides that include rave reviews from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Guillermo del Toro.
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One of the standout horror films from the 2017 film festival circuit, “Tigers Are Not Afraid” is finally making its way to theaters next month, courtesy of Shudder (who is turning into a force in the genre film world). And in the trailer, you get a quick glimpse as to why the three gentlemen above are in love with the Mexican thriller.
“Tigers Are Not Afraid” is described as an urban fairy tale that follows a young girl and her fellow orphaned children that are armed with three magical wishes. They are attempting to survive in Mexico, which is in the middle of absolutely devastating drug wars. The group of children has to somehow escape that real violence while also running away from ghosts that haunt them.
The horror/thriller film stars Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, and Hanssel Casillas. ‘Tigers’ is written and directed by Issa López.
“Tigers Are Not Afraid” arrives in theaters on August 23.
Here’s the synopsis:
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents. Filmmaker Issa López creates a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magical realism to conjure a wholly unique experience that audiences will not soon forget
