The Night Buffalo

The Night Buffalo (2007)

El búfalo de la noche

A schizophrenic man commits suicide after his girlfriend cheats on him with his best friend.

Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a 22-year-old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life.

Date of release
2007-01-20
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jorge Hernández Aldana

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $2.5M

El Búfalo de la Noche is a 2007 film directed by Jorge Hernández Aldana and based on Guillermo Arriaga's novel of the same name. The film was released in Mexico on August 17, 2007, and in the United States on April 14, 2009.

Production

Another production company originally bought the rights to the novel, but the rights were revoked when the writer, Guillermo Arriaga, saw the project turn into something he did not agree with. Having gone through a similar ordeal years before with the 1999 movie Un Dulce Olor a Muerte (A Sweet Scent of Death), also based on one of his novels and directed by Gabriel Retes.

Upon this decision, he took the project himself and set out to produce along with a local businessman. He admittedly looked for a novice director to get a fresh outlook and finally settled for Jorge Hernández, whom he had awarded as a member of a jury of a Venezuelan short film contest.

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