Great news from XLator Media today as they announced they will be releasing writer/director Isaac Ezban’s The Similars (AKA Los Parecidos; Mexico, 2015) to VOD on November 15, 2016. Keep your eyes peeled for further information about one-night screenings in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
Grue-Crew foreign correspondent Joseph Perry praised the film as one of this top ten of the year in his review here at Gruesome Magazine and on the Horror News Radio Extra podcast, episode 7. The film sounds incredibly promising and, combined with Joseph’s high recommendation, it lands squarely on the “HNR Must See” list.
Let us know if you get the chance to see it and share what you think of The Similars! Check out images below.
Joseph Perry’s review of The Similars, click here.
HNR Extra Episode 7 with a review of The Similars, click here.
Synopsis:
On the rainy night of October 2, 1968, eight people waiting in a remote bus station for a bus heading to Mexico City start experiencing a strange phenomenon. Threatened by paranoia and fear, the strangers show the best and worst of themselves as they try to unravel the mysterious condition that is invading each of them like a virus.
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
