After becoming a festival darling and Shudder streaming favorite with the knockout fantasy-horror Tigers Are Not Afraid, filmmaker Issa Lopez is heading to Blumhouse for a new supernatural-tinged tale of societal woes -- this time, mass hysteria! Lopez is set to write and direct Our Lady of Tears, a film adaptation of Daniel Hernandez's article, “The Haunting of Girlstown,” which was published by Epic Magazine and Vox. Per the press release, the film focuses on "a mass hysteria epidemic with supernatural roots, that in 2007 spread through Villa de las Niñas, an all girls, Catholic boarding school …

A painfully relevant Mexican dark fantasy that del Toro fans will love.

Issa López's Spanish-language indie film, Tigers Are Not Afraid, is the best reviewed horror movie of 2019 so far (according to Rotten Tomatoes).

Filmmaker Issa López's dark fairy-tale horror flick Tigers Are Not Afraid has been building one hell of a buzz across the festival scene for a while now—nabbing praise from Guillermo del Toro, Stephen King, and Neil Gaiman along the way—so I'm straight-up overjoyed it's finally landing on Shudder this year. And I'm extra excited to bring you this exclusive clip from the film, which tells the tale of the titular tiger, who is absolutely not afraid. The clip sets the stage for the tone López is living in here, a …

Feast your horror-lovin' eyes on the first trailer for Tigers Are Not Afraid, the dark fantasy flick from writer/director Issa López that's been setting the festival circuit ablaze since 2017 before landing a distribution home on Shudder. Set against the backdrop of Mexico's drug wars, Tigers follows two young orphans (Paola Lara and Juan Ramón López) on a supernatural-tinged flight from the cartel who killed their parents. The movie gives off serious early Guillermo del Toro vibes, which makes it even more encouraging that the Pan's Labyrinth filmmaker himself called it "…