Diego Ortuño
Director
Chuzalongo (2024)
At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the crops to bear fruit magically, but for the boy to live, he must be fed human blood.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Keywords: tmdb.folk-horror, tmdb.indigenous, soundmix.dolby-digital, aspectratio.2-39, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.folk-horror, imdb.19th-century + 37 more, imdb.andean-culture, imdb.vampiric, imdb.ecuador, imdb.catholic-mass, imdb.inequalities, imdb.rural-church, imdb.romance-with-an-indigenous-man, imdb.socially-conscious-priest, imdb.reflection-on-justice, imdb.ruthless-landowner, imdb.rural-priest, imdb.famine, imdb.bloodsucking, imdb.social-commentary, imdb.ecuadorian-legend, imdb.reference-to-chuzalongo, imdb.male-lead-descends-into-madness, imdb.forbidden-romance, imdb.rape-of-a-woman, imdb.terror-social, imdb.lured-into-a-trap, imdb.rural-legend, imdb.landowner-s-daughter, imdb.reference-to-ecuador-s-liberal-revolution-of-1895, imdb.accused-of-being-a-liberal, imdb.rape-of-an-indigenous-woman, imdb.red-ear-of-corn, imdb.4k, imdb.female-peasant-raped-by-landowner, imdb.lost-child, imdb.mythological-creature, imdb.fatherhood, imdb.informal-adoption, imdb.attack-on-women, imdb.abandoned-baby, imdb.narrator, imdb.starting-a-fire
Country: Ecuador
Production Countries:
Canada,
Ecuador,
Spain,
Peru
Languages:
Spanish
Recommendations
Runtime: 95 min.
Released: Sept. 25, 2024
Status: Released
Certification: NR