New Zealand-based sales outfit Black Mandala has acquired international sales rights to “No One Will Hear Your Scream,” a period slasher thriller set against the backdrop of the 1990 soccer World Cup.
Written and directed by Mariano Cattaneo, the Argentina-set horror film follows Micaela, a young woman who works at a record store making mixtapes, as she discovers that a killer is connected to her through a compilation she created and sold. With each Argentina World Cup match bringing a new victim, Micaela races to uncover the murderer’s identity before she potentially becomes the final target.
The film stars Sol Wainer (“A Silent Death,” “Perdida”), Byron Barbieri (“El Eternauta,” “Cielo Grande”) and Germán Baudino (“What The Waters Left Behind,” “Historia de lo Oculto”).
Cattaneo, whose previous directorial credits include “The Strangest Girl in the World” for Disney+, brings his horror expertise to the project. The filmmaker has described the production as “a physical and emotionally charged film, with football [soccer] as a backdrop, music as a conduit for emotion, and a coming-of-age story intertwined with both classic and modern slasher elements.”
Black Mandala, which has established itself as a key player in the international genre film market, will be representing the title at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. The company’s current slate includes several other horror and thriller titles aimed at global genre audiences.
The slate includes “Play Dead,” starring Paula Brasca in a claustrophobic nightmare where she must lie motionless among corpses while mysterious rituals unfold above her; erotic thriller “Traumnovelle”; supernatural horror “Containment” that puts a fresh spin on possession tropes; and “Lake Jesup,” where redemption meets reptilian terror.
