The Similars

The Similars (2015)

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Eight people experience a strange phenomenon while waiting for a bus at a remote station on a rainy October night.

Date of release
2015-09-25
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (163)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Isaac Ezban

Casting

Interesting facts

The Similars is a 2015 Mexican supernatural thriller film written and directed by Isaac Ezban. It stars Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Fernando Becerril, Humberto Busto, Carmen Beato, Santiago Torres, and María Elena Olivares as people who are trapped by a hurricane at a bus station around the time of the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968. As the passengers wait for a bus to arrive, they are horrified to find that everyone's face is slowly transforming. The Similars premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2015. It was released in Mexico in October 2016.

Production

Writer-director Isaac Ezban was influenced by The Twilight Zone. Like that show, he said he wanted to make a thriller that focused primarily on the characters. Ezban wrote the script in 2011, and shooting began on 7 July 2014 in Mexico City and Puebla. Ezban considered shooting in black and white but instead used desaturated colors.

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