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 …

Issa López has been very busy in the film industry for years now, but the success of Tigers Are Not Afraid puts her in the spotlight in a whole new way, and it seems as though that way is paving the way to more opportunities in the horror genre. We were lucky enough to have López join us for a full episode of The Witching Hour this week and she spoke extensively about her past films and the challenges of getting Tigers Are Not Afraid screened, but she also took the time to address a highly anticipated new …

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 "…