Argentina is a country with an extensive and varied cinematography. Within this enormity, there is a rare, atypical… bizarre cinema. Bizarrofilia aims to investigate the origin and meaning of the word “bizarre”, how the passage of time implies reinterpretations of some works, and focuses on the contemporary production of films that aim to distance themselves from any mimetic representation of reality… although in a country like ours reality always surpasses fiction.
A history of Argentine horror cinema, from its beginnings in 1934 to present day. It is a path of defeat, dead-end streets and triumphs, where the protagonists will lead us through the lesser known hallways of local horror.
In 1997, 17-year-old suburban Buenos Aires filmmakers Pablo Parés and Hernan Sáez pooled $450 to co-write/produce/direct and star in a shot-on-VHS zombie epic of such flesh-ripping, gore-spewing greatness that it instantly drew global cult acclaim and redefined the possibilities of extreme DIY horror. Over the next 20 years, Parés, Sáez and their friends would create two increasingly ambitious – and equally brilliant – viscera-soaked sequels (and several short films) that made them “Argentinian George Romeros who’ve built a small empire of gore flicks”
In 1997, an Alien race attempted an invasion in a small city of Argentina by fertilizing the human population turning them into blood thirsty zombies. The plan almost worked until 3 unlikely heroes emerged, battling back the zombies, and ultimately destroying the Alien mother ship. Now, 16 years later, the Aliens are back to their old tricks. Their target this time around is America. The city of New Bedford, Massachusetts is quickly overrun by the alien zombie infestation.
Star Wars Goretech is the magnanimous project of businessman Max Higgins, who managed to carry out the filming of that script, with all the sex, violence, apologies for drugs and prostitution that George Lucas always wanted to film but never got around to.
The secret formula that destroyed McDonald's, Burger King and Mustard has just leaked, now everyone is after their search.
In the urban jungle of Buenos Aires, Cichonga is the toughest badass around, until his nemesis steals his beer, the secret to his might and superhuman strength. Cichonga will have to pummel his way through to recover what is his.
Earth succumbed to a nuclear war caused by an infamous evil being known as Dr Hell, who today dominates the world with his technology from a distant planet called Goretech. Now the world is only violence and death and humanity is inexorably approaching its extinction, as there are no women left alive. A timorous and cowardly young man named Han meets a mythical curmudgeonly old man who will teach him the secret of martial arts, and together they will fight to end the tyranny of the sinister Dr Hell.
An invasion alien threatens the fate of humanity and begins in a village where there are Bill Johnson, John West and Max Giggs. The friends escape from there with the purpose of finding and destroying the invading ship before it completes its evil plan of conquest.
A young editor (Esteban) will find that he is a prisoner on his new job: an "editing island".
Pablo Parés (August 28, 1978, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine director, actor, producer, screenwriter and editor. He has directed and produced nearly 20 films. He is known for his work in the "Plaga Zombie" film saga. He also directed the "Daemonium" series.
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