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Red Screening (2020)

Red Screening poster
Original title
Al morir la matinée
Directed by
Maximiliano Contenti
Genre
horror film
Country
Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 113 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1993 in Montevideo, a young woman named Ana fills in for her father as a projectionist at a run-down movie theater. As she runs the film, a black-gloved killer stalks and murders the audience members watching the movie.

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What happens

The Last Matinee (Spanish: Al morir la matinée), also known as Red Screening, is a 2020 Spanish-language slasher film directed by Maximiliano Contenti. An international co-production of Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina, the film stars Luciana Grasso, Ricardo Islas, Julieta Spinelli, and Franco Durán. It premiered in Uruguay in September 2020. Set in 1993 in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre. Unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film at the theatre is being murdered by a black-gloved killer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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