Shudder 10: Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
Director: Issa López Run Time: 83 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2017
Starring: Hanssel Casillas, Ianis Guerrero, Juan Ramón López, Paola Lara, Rodrigo Cortes
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Screening as part of the Shudder 10 Screening Series
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium horror streaming service, celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2025. Learn more below.
About the film:
World Premiere, Fantastic Fest 2017
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) 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.
“A sublime mixture of dark social realism and magical fantasy.”
—Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
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.
About the filmmaker:
Issa López is a Mexican director, writer, and producer. Eleven features have been produced from her scripts, four of which she directed. She has won several literary awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico’s Institute of Fine Arts and Literature in 2007. In 2017, her film Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) premiered at Austin’s Fantastic Fest. The film received the Best Horror Director Award, and went on to collect fifty-one awards in film festivals around the world. Currently, López is developing projects with leading figures in the film industry including Guillermo del Toro, Noah Hawley, and Jason Blum. She also directed and co-wrote all episodes of the fourth season of HBO’s TV series True Detective.
About the series:
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium horror streaming service, will mark its 10-year anniversary and a decade of the best in horror with its most terrifyingly ambitious programming slate to date, special fan events, customized merchandise and more.
Kicking off in April and running through the fall, Shudder’s nationwide screening tour, “Shudder 10 Screening Series,” will feature a curated selection of Shudder films that are making their big screen debut.
The tour will make stops at IFC Center in New York City, Music Box in Chicago, SIFF in Seattle, The Coolidge in Boston, Popcorn Frights Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Screenland Armor in Kansas City, all Soho House locations and more.
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