Ecuadorian cinema has grown steadily since the early 2000s, when state support and co-production deals helped local filmmakers reach wider audiences. It remains a small but distinctive voice in Latin American film, with horror and social drama finding particular traction in recent years. Las Antropófagas is one such example: see what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 2.5★
Kidnap thrillers were practically their own cottage industry around the turn of the millennium. The genre had plenty of fuel: real-world anxieties about political instability in Latin America, the post-Cold War scramble of private military contractors and crisis negotiators, and a film industry hungry for adult dramas that
Genre Horror
½ — Las Antropófagas (2019)
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