‘Sacrifices’, by filmmaker Mauricio Chernovetzky, between terror and discomfort

For the filmmaker Mauricio Chernovetzky, he horror cinema, genre that has most predominated in his film career, it is more than scaring or simply telling an uncomfortable story and in his most recent film Sacrifices honors their feelings, concerns and experiences.

“It is the film that I feel most connected to me,” highlighted the director of Mexican origin. “I lived in Los Angeles for a long time as a child, but then I returned to Mexico and I remember the fascination I had on visits to the Museum of Anthropologythat’s why I took up a part of that for this film, Mictlantecuhtliwhich in particular is the God of Death”.

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Sacrifices tells the story of a father who, after losing his son, desperately seeks to recover him, so he embarks on an uncertain course at sea to find that his son is back, but to keep him You must feed it with your own blood.

Between mythological horror and psychological drama

The film, which will premiere in Austin Film Festivalmix mythological horror with psychological dramaa fusion that Chernovetsky llama “terror of the soul“Far from following formulas or commercial structures, his work is committed to a cinema that bothers and moves at the same time.”I’m not interested in algorithm terror. I prefer to let the story guide me. Real fear arises from something deeply human”, he commented.

The project, starring Jorge A. Jiménez, was filmed in a natural environment which reinforces the introspective tone of the story. For the director, the History is not only about death or resurrectionbut about the relationship between a father and his sona link rarely explored in Mexican cinema with so much emotional charge. “We always talk about the mother and the children. I wanted to show a father willing to do anything to reconnect with what he loves,” he explains.

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In addition to its mythological background, Sacrifices raises a reflection on the contemporary disconnection with the sacred. “I don’t believe that pre-Hispanic gods are figures from the past; they are still alive, they are archetypes that speak to us about our contradictions,” he stated. Chernovetsky.

The director, known for his appearance at festivals such as Macabre with The Darkconsider that the fantastic cinema It is a powerful way to show the human without filters. “Imagination is what can save us. Horror is just a way of looking at what we fear within us,” he concluded.