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Look forward to a new horror miniseries from Pablo Larraín. Netflix has announced the production of My Sad Dead (Mis muertos tristes), a miniseries based on the work of author Marina Enríquez. The Chilean filmmaker last worked with Netflix on the black horror, El Conde.

The four-part horror series starts filming in June and is said to be about not the world of the supernatural and the horror found within society. Although the work is based on My Sad Dead, the streamer announced plots and characters will also draw inspiration from Julie, A Sunny Place for Shady People and Back When We Talked to the Dead.

The story is being adapted for the screen by Enríquez herself, along with Chilean writer Guillermo Calderón, Anastasia Ayazi and Larraín himself. The director has described Mariana’s writing as “particularly visual,” “brilliant, and “dangerous.” He called her style of “casual, domestic horror” as...

Netflix has ordered “My Sad Dead,” a four-episode limited series from Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, marking his latest collaboration with the platform after “El Conde” and the forthcoming biopic “Maria.” The project adapts Argentine author Mariana Enríquez’s ghost-laden short story of the same name and begins principal photography in Buenos Aires and Santiago late June.

Each hour-long instalment will weave elements from “My Sad Dead,” “Julie,” “A Sunny Place for Shady People” and “Back When We Talked to the Dead,” blending domestic drama with supernatural dread. “I enjoy seeing my work re-imagined; this adaptation has felt calm and respectful,” Enríquez said, adding that Netflix’s reach gives the stories “a breathtaking new audience.”

Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi and Alejandra Flechner lead a cast that also includes Carlos Portaluppi, Germán de Silva, Luz Jiménez and Carolina Sánchez Álvarez. Larraín writes alongside Guillermo Calderón and Anastasia Ayazi; Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín...

Pablo Larraín (Spencer, El Conde) is reteaming with Netflix for a four-part horror miniseries titled “My Sad Dead,” and Variety brings us the first information this afternoon.

The horror series is based on a short story by author Mariana Enríquez.

Variety details, however, “Described as a psychological and supernatural horror story rooted in societal trauma, My Sad Dead draws not only from Enríquez’s titular tale, but also incorporates characters and themes from her other works, including Julie, A Sunny Place for Shady People, and Back When We Talked to the Dead.”

Here’s the synopsis:

“Ema, a 60-year-old doctor, can see and hear the dead. She calls them ‘presences’ and has lived her entire life avoiding letting this gift connect her with the suffering of others. But when her niece Julie, a disturbed young woman who can also communicate with the dead, but in a much more intense and sexual manner,...

Netflix is moving forward with “My Sad Dead,” also titled “Mis Muertos Tristes,” a new miniseries from Pablo Larraín. The Chilean filmmaker behind such movies as “Spencer” and “Jackie” will be behind the project, which will be composed of four hour-long horror drama episodes.

The series is based on Argentine author Mariana Enríquez’s tale “My Sad Dead.” It will also borrow from passages from her other works, including “Julie,” “A Sunny Place for Shady People” and “Back When We Talked to the Dead.” “As Mariana Enríquez suggests, the true terror is not the supernatural itself, but the horrors that society hides,” a logline for the upcoming series reads.

The horror miniseries follows Ema, a 60-year-old doctor who can see and hear the dead, which she calls “presences.” But that’s a gift she has avoided her entire life. That changes once her niece Julie — who can also communicate with...

Netflix has officially announced “My Sad Dead” (“Mis muertos tristes”), a new four-part horror drama miniseries helmed by acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín and produced by his Chilean label Fabula in collaboration with Argentina’s K&s Films, producers of the streamer’s recent global mega-hit “The Eternaut.”

The new series, based on the short story of the same name by Argentine author Mariana Enríquez, is set to begin filming at the end of June. Filming will take place in Buenos Aires for exteriors and Santiago, Chile for interiors.

Described as a psychological and supernatural horror story rooted in societal trauma, “My Sad Dead” draws not only from Enríquez’s titular tale, but also incorporates characters and themes from her other works, including “Julie”, “A Sunny Place for Shady People” and “Back When We Talked to the Dead.” The story was adapted for the screen by Enríquez herself, along with celebrated Chilean writer Guillermo Calderón,...

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Written by Huaiquimilla and Pablo Greene, the film shares this sensibility. Dedicated – at least in a rough cut seen at Ventana Sur – to the 1,313 inmates who have died at youth detention centers in Chile, the film earliest stretches turn on Angel and younger brother Franco, incarcerated in a youth penitentiary for a year, pending trial. They now have friends, Angel even a puppy love attachment to a girl inmate,...