The Similars

Name: The Similars
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science fiction
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Cast: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Fernando Becerril, Alberto Estrella, Humberto Busto

2015

Title: The Similars

Original Title: Los parecidos

Year: 2015

Info

Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish
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.

Cast

Director:

Isaac Ezban Isaac Ezban

Gustavo Sánchez Parra

Ulises

Cassandra Ciangherotti

Irene

Martín

Reyes

Álvaro

Ignacio

Policía

Photos

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'.

Welcome to the 60's

First film in Mexico and Latinamerica that was shot with the new Red Camera sensor (the Red Epic DRAGON) although, since this camera would give great quality and sharpness to the image but the film is a period piece and takes place in the 60's, Director of Photography Isi Sarfati decided to use a lot of filters to make the image look like something out of a 60's film, as director Isaac Ezban had envisioned.