Luciana Grasso On Her New Film “The Last Matinee” & Much More

In the new film The Last Matinee, the audience attending the last showing of a horror film in a small downtown cinema are terrorized by a murderer who begins to pick them off, one by one. The only person to notice that something strange is going on is the projectionist’s daughter. Directed by Maxi Contenti (Muñeco Viviente V, Neptunia) from a script by Manuel Facal (High Five, Fiesta Nibiru) and Contenti, the film stars Luciana Grasso (El Secreto De Julia), Ricardo Islas (El Que No Corre Vuela, Bailiwick), Julieta Spinelli, Franco Duran and Pedro Duarte. The Uruguay-Argentinian horror film will be released in the U.S. via Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting on VOD, Digital and DVD on August 24, 2021, having hit theaters earlier this month after finding acclaim on the festival circuit.

On August 18, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with the aforementioned Luciana Grasso via Zoom, as embedded below. Realizing that she is a native speaker of Spanish and that I would be taking a trip to a Spanish-speaking country the following day, I decided to take a risk and try speaking with the acclaimed actress in her native tongue. And boy was she patient with me during my first ever Spanish-language interview! More on Grasso and The Last Matinee can be found here, here, here and here.

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Tags: Argentina, Bloody Disgusting, Dark Star Pictures, horror, Indie Films, Luciana Grasso, Maxi Contenti, The Last Matinee, Uruguay

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