CURSED IN BAJA
DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
FRIDAY 23 AUGUST - 11.10 PM
Director: Jeff Daniel Phillips.
With: Jeff Daniel Phillips, Jose Conejo Martin, Finnegan Seeker Bell, Barbara Crampton, Mark Fite, Robbyn Leigh.
USA 2024. 80 mins.
WORLD PREMIERE - Playing Herman Munster in Rob Zombie’s THE MUNSTERS reboot made it Jeff Daniel Phillips fifth collaboration with the rock horror legend. Now, Phillips makes his feature debut as director, starring as Pirelli, a burnt-out ex-detective lured by the wealthy Los Angeles family who is responsible for his desperate plight to locate the missing heir to their fortune. But the young rapper is in Baja, Mexico, and a member of a Russian beast cult that worships the notorious Chupacabra. Pirelli must confront his complicated past in the deadly search for what he finds in Baja, which challenges him to the core.
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