Shudder has acquired the rights to Vieja Loca — English translation: Crazy Old Lady — in North America, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, Deadline has learned. In the Spanish-language horror-thriller, a man receives a desperate call from his ex-girlfriend to temporarily care for her senile mother. But the woman won’t let him leave, turning a simple task […]
Shudder has acquired the rights to Vieja Loca — English translation: Crazy Old Lady — in North America, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, Deadline has learned.
In the Spanish-language horror-thriller, a man receives a desperate call from his ex-girlfriend to temporarily care for her senile mother. But the woman won’t let him leave, turning a simple task into a nightmare.
Carmen Maura (Volver, Witching & Bitching) and Daniel Hendler star.
Screenwriter Martín Mauregui makes his feature directorial debut, with filmmaker J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) serving as producer.
“When I began my career with The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro produced it on one condition: that I would sponsor another director in the future. I loved Mauregui’s script and it’s an opportunity to return to genre cinema, which I love,” Bayona commented.
“I approached the project to lend a hand, but I ended up producing. It was the first film to be shot in Argentina after Javier Milei’s victory and we are very happy to have been able to make this film a reality at such a complicated time for cinema in Argentina.”
The Spanish-Argentine co-production hails from Películas La Trini, Primo Content, Mr Fields and Friends, Bambu Producciones, and La Unión De Los Ríos, with the participation of Amazon España.
