Pablo Larraín will make a horror series for Netflix

Two years after the count, the Chilean director returns to the streaming platform.

After the biopics on Pablo Nerudaon Jackie Kennedy, Diana Spectr or more recently Maria Callas, the Chilean director Pablo Larraínthis time plunges into the darkness of supernatural horror.

Netflix has just announced My Sad Dead (Mis Down muertos), a mini-series in four episodes produced by the company Fabula de Larraín himself, in collaboration with the Argentines of K&S Films, to whom we must recently The ene ina huge world success on the platform.

Adapted from a news from the Argentine author Mariana enríquezmajor figure in contemporary Gothic literature, My Sad Dead promises to be a dizzying dive in the collective trauma of a haunted continent. The story, mixing social and fantastic social horror, is inspired not only with the eponymous text of Enríquez but also draws from other works of the writer as Julie,, A sunny place for shady people Or When we were talking with the dead. Adaptation is signed by Enríquez herself, accompanied by the screenwriter Guillermo Calderón (Neruda,, El Club),, Anastasia ayazi And Pablo Larraín.

The filmmaker thus returns to Netflix, two years after The Counthis strange black and satirical comedy who imagined the dictator Augusto Pinochet in a vampire born in the 18th century …

The shooting of My Sad Dead will start at the end of June between Buenos Aires (for exteriors) and Santiago du Chile (for interiors). Casting, Argentina is in the spotlight with Mercedes Morán,, Dolores Fonzi And Alejandra Flechnerjoined by Carlos Portaluppi,, Germán of Silva,, Luz Jiménez And Carolina Sánchez Álvarezyoung revelation which signs its first role here.

The official pitch plants an oppressive atmosphere: EMA, a 60 -year -old doctor, can see and hear the dead. She calls them the “presences” and has always tried to keep her distance from these voices from elsewhere. But the arrival of her niece Julie, an unstable young woman with a more carnal and dangerous link with the dead, upset everything. Which starts as a family meeting turns to the descent into hell, gradually contaminating the whole neighborhood by the murmurs of the beyond. As the boundaries between the living, the dead and the desire disappear, Ema will have to face her past, her daughter … and the ghosts that she has never really left.

For Pablo Larraínthis project is part of the continuity of his work: “Mariana’s writing is particularly visual, shiny and dangerous. It is an intimate, domestic horror, which will inspire and still inspire many adaptations. I am grateful to Netflix to have allowed me to surround myself with this team that I admire, and which will do everything to create the best possible mini-series.”