Separately and together, Adrián García Bogliano and his brother, Ramiro García Bogliano, have crafted some of the best genre features and television shows to come out of Latin America. Adrián is a member of the FANGORIA Hall of Fame and won a Best Foreign-Language Film Chainsaw Award for 2012’s Here Comes the Devil, and has also directed the likes of Scherzo Diabolico, Come Play With Me, La Exorcista, and the U.S. production Late Phases: Night of the Wolf.
Together, the duo created Rooms for Tourists, Cold Sweat, Penumbra and TV scare fare including My Encounter With Evil and La Hora Marcada. Their latest collaboration, La Mancha (You’re It), has its world premiere at the 27th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, running April 15-26.
According to the official synopsis, “The film follows a group of children and teenagers who fall victim to a dark curse within an amusement park. Shifting away from traditional adult-centric horror, the film explores a terrifying, subjective world where adults are absent, and danger lurks in the familiar.”
Adrián and Ramiro wrote and directed the movie together, and the cast is headed by Asia Garcia Oliva, Babette Wallovits, Ennio Garcia Oliva, Juan Sebastian Albini, Genaro Aguilera Ocampo and Noelia Vergini.
You're It was filmed in secret two years ago, and has been kept under wraps since then. “In early 2024, we felt it was the perfect moment to do something less structured and fresher,” Adrián says. “We wanted to try something that would surprise even us.” To that end, the cast was largely made up of screen newcomers and non-actors to make the performances more spontaneous.
“We wanted to return to the independent spirit of our beginnings while exploring a narrative that resonates with a new generation of horror fans,” says the brothers’ longtime collaborator Andrea Quiroz Hernández, founder of Salto de Fe Films, which produced You’re It. Adds fellow producer Catalina Oliva, “We approached the filmmaking process with a keen awareness of our available resources, strategically leveraging them to build a world that feels both immersive and narratively cohesive.”
The focus on a youthful group of protagonists, Ramiro says, elicits a particularly distinctive kind of fear. “With You’re It, we wanted to dive headfirst into horror from a child’s perspective,” he explains. “We wanted to capture that unsettling feeling from childhood where everything is stranger and more dangerous—a world that is both fantastic and naturalistic.” We’ll keep you posted on when You’re It will spread its terror further across the world.
