WRITER: Deivis Cortés

TITLE: The Worm

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Eglish

COUNTRY: Colombia

GENRE: Thriller Drama

FORMAT: Feature l 90 min

STATUS: In Development

ONE LINER:

A producer specialized in horror films makes a movie predicated on an unpublished children’s story. Years later, an avant-garde semiologist analyzes the film and reveals a dark case of child abuse.

SYNOPSIS:

Jason, a film producer, tired of commercial blueprints, decides to adapt a little-known horror book written by a 7-year-old girl: “The Worm.” The adapted screen-play becomes an instant success. 10 years later, a semiologist named Lotto discovers “The Worm” book was actually a metaphor used unconsciously by victims of sexual abuse to convey their trauma. Lotto’s investigation leads to a trace of fiction books written by humble children and becomes a catalyst to end impunity in several cases of child abuse.

WHY IT MATTERS?

Horror is a genre that simulates situations to make the viewer feel scared in a safe way, likewise it evolves according to what hallows society. In an increasingly cynical world, creators of horror fiction distance themselves from fantasy as they approach the human’s depth closer. Humanity is no longer scared by deformed creatures or the living dead, instead, what’s terrifying now is observing the mundane interior of the human mind.

That’s why Freud defines the sinister as the disturbing blend of the familiar and the uncanny. We don’t need to leave home (or even our own heads) to face the purest horrors. “The Worm” portraits how some of the most terrifying things can’t be encoded as they are concealed inside familiarity. Such profound forms of terror that we can’t stare at with our naked eyes whilst being fundamental to do so in order to know our species profoundly. The humanity behind the trauma addressed in this film reveals the enormous layers of complexity that the human mind shapes as a response to events that, in spite of seeming atypical, are more commonplace than we are aware of

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