Title: The Similars
Original Title: Los parecidos
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: Mexico
- Length: 89 Minutes (1 hour 29 min)
- Genre: Horror Mystery Science fiction
- Studios: Caminante Films Red Elephant
Release Dates
- United States: September 25 2015
Plot
With the prize to Best Latinoamerican Movie in the Sitges Festival of the past year, 'The Similar', directing by the filmmaker Isaac Ezban, is the sequel of his previous film 'The Incident' (2014). In this new movie, Ezban shows us the origin of the incidents during the history happening an early morning of 1968's october in Ciudad de México (México). Eight characters are waiting in a remote bus station when they start experiencing a strange phenomenon.
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Trivia
The origin of everything
There's a small Easter egg at the end of the film that explains the origins of the incidents from "The Incident" (director Isaac Ezban's previous feature film), and unites the universe and mythology of both films.
Influences
Some of the main influences for writer and director Isaac Ezban to create this story included the B-Movies of the 50's and 60's, the work of authors like Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Michael Crichton and Stephen King, TV shows like 'The Twilight Zone', 'The Outer Limits' and "Fringe', and movies like John Carpenter's 'The Thing', Richard Kelly's 'The Box', Wachowski Brothers and Tom Tykwer's 'Cloud Atlas', James Mangold's 'Identity' and Philip Kaufman's 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'.
An unique film
Used make-up and special effects techniques never before done in Mexico.
Soundtrack from 'The Similars'
Tuve Un Sueño
Interpretada por
Song Vicente Montes José Vicente Montes Los Rebel Cats featuring Álvaro Henríquez
Go Go Squeeze
Interpretada por
Song Stephen Bashaw Sonic
Cuban Fling
Interpretada por
Song Tor Ingar Jakobsen Prolificarts
Return To Rio
Interpretada por
Song Tor Ingar Jakobsen Prolificarts
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