Ahead of its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival this October, Black Mandala Films has shared a trailer for directors Luciano and Nicolás Onetti’s upcoming horror 1978.
The film sees a group of torturers violently kidnap a group of young people from their home during a military dictatorship, but after arriving at the inhumane detention centre, the interrogators discover they have taken the wrong group and fall victim to a terrifying supernatural force. Watch the trailer below…
During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people to take them to a clandestine detention center.
What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong group of people have been kidnapped. They turn out to be part of a macabre cult guided by an unknown supernatural force. The clandestine detention center will become hell itself…
Featuring in the cast of 1978 are Agustín Pardella, Carlos Portaluppi, Mario Alarcón, Agustin Olcese, Jorge Lorenzo, Santiago Ríos, Gustavo Bonfigli, Paula Silva, Gustavo Pardi, Ezequiel Pache, Valeria San Martín, María Eugenia Rigón, Justina Ceballos, Gustavo Bayley, Ignacio Francavilla, Bruno Giacobbe, Hernán Cáceres, Nicolás Perez, Gastón Frías, Antonella Fittipaldi, and Giovanni Onetti.
1978 is set to premiere on October 4th at Sitges.
Originally published September 13, 2024. Updated September 14, 2024.
