Tigers Are Not Afraid

Name: Tigers Are Not Afraid
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy, Horror
Released: August 23, 2019
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Hanssel Casillas, Ianis Guerrero, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo, Paola Lara

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Videocine | Release Date: August 23, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Hanssel Casillas, Ianis Guerrero, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo, Paola Lara, Rodrigo Cortes, Tenoch Huerta

Summary: A group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes run from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents.

Director: Issa López

Genre(s): Mystery, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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Scout Tafoya

Aug 29, 2019

The film is replete with unforgettable images, stellar performances all up and down the cast, and genuinely original and thoughtful revisions of expected tropes. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Sep 5, 2019

A sublime mixture of dark social realism and magical fantasy – social magical realism, if such a subgenre exists. Read full review

Jim Slotek

Aug 22, 2019

An emotionally moving thriller that smoothly negotiates the horrors of the supernatural and real world evil with haunting imagery and tension. Read full review

April Wolfe

Jul 29, 2019

By telling this story through the children’s eyes with a magical-realism element, López makes the tragically unthinkable somehow more palatable. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Sep 4, 2019

Call it Buñuel meets Blumhouse, a film that is flawed but so full of ideas that it doesn’t matter. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Aug 26, 2019

This mixture of poverty and fantasy will not be for everyone. Compare the angry reaction to Buñuel’s “Los Olvidados,” when it came out, in 1950; not content with revealing the plight of destitute children, in Mexico City, Buñuel had the temerity to swerve into nightmare. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Aug 17, 2019

It never resolves its commingling of the fanciful and the mundane into a particularly coherent argument about the legacy of trauma. Read full review

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qbase

Nov 12, 2019

Ενα στοιχειωτικό παραμύθι τρόμου που εξελίσσεται με υπόβαθρο τον ολέθριο ναρκωπόλεμο του Μεξικού. Το φίλμ ακολουθεί μια ομάδα ορφανών παιδιών, οπλισμένων με τρείς μαγικές ευχές, που τρέχουν να ξεφύγουν απο τα φαντάσματα που τους κυνηγούν και το καρτέλ που σκότωσε τους γονείς τους.
ΗΕνα στοιχειωτικό παραμύθι τρόμου που εξελίσσεται με υπόβαθρο τον ολέθριο ναρκωπόλεμο του Μεξικού. Το φίλμ ακολουθεί μια ομάδα ορφανών παιδιών, οπλισμένων με τρείς μαγικές ευχές, που τρέχουν να ξεφύγουν απο τα φαντάσματα που τους κυνηγούν και το καρτέλ που σκότωσε τους γονείς τους.
Η δημιουργός Issa López δημιουργεί εναν κόσμο που θυμίζει τα πρώτα φίλμ του Guillermo del Toro, εμπλουτισμένα με την δική της αστική εκδοχή στον μαγικό ρεαλισμό, μια μοναδική εμπειρία που οι θεατές δεν θα ξεχάσουν εύκολα.… Expand

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CineAutoctono

Aug 23, 2019

"Tigers Are Not Afraid" was a movie where it was shown that Mexican cinema still has good things to show, a good story, good plot and good characters, and this movie is not the exception. The story as well as dark and raw is fascinating, and the performances are captivating, a jewel of the"Tigers Are Not Afraid" was a movie where it was shown that Mexican cinema still has good things to show, a good story, good plot and good characters, and this movie is not the exception. The story as well as dark and raw is fascinating, and the performances are captivating, a jewel of the few views in current Mexican cinema.… Expand

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Brent_Marchant

Sep 15, 2019

Despite an occasionally choppy narrative, this Mexican smart horror offering serves up a creepy fairy tale-like story set against the landscape of the nation's current drug wars and what they're doing to its population, especially children orphaned by the violence. The film's fine adolescentDespite an occasionally choppy narrative, this Mexican smart horror offering serves up a creepy fairy tale-like story set against the landscape of the nation's current drug wars and what they're doing to its population, especially children orphaned by the violence. The film's fine adolescent performers deliver excellent portrayals mature beyond their years, and the picture skillfully mixes a unique blend of fright, action and surprisingly salty humor. It's gratifying to see a film of this genre that successfully resists the temptation to sanitize its material, given its young cast members, but sensitive viewers should nevertheless beware that director Issa Lopez holds little back (though, thankfully, without becoming gratuitous or grotesque). Fans of smart horror releases are sure to enjoy this offering, a work reminiscent of the early films of Guillermo del Toro, gritty but not gross and eminently entertaining.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Nov 21, 2020

(Mauro Lanari)
It would have been better if Issa López had avoided the similarities with the magical realism of her countryman del Toro.

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