The film project Montenegro was showcased at this year’s Fantastic Pavilion, within the Marché du Film in Cannes, where it won the Fantastic Focus Award. Montenegro was written by Mexican filmmaker Eduardo Valenzuela and it’s the first of three features from a horror slate by United Content.
Montenegro has been described as a psychological horror thriller. It follows “Sebastián, a writer who travels to a ranch seeking tranquility in order to finish his novel. However, he soon discovers that the rural environment is controlled by dark forces. The disappearance of his daughter drags him into an abyss of witchcraft and drug trafficking, where each step puts him closer to a terrifying fate.”
Writer and director Valenzuela commented that Montenegro was “the most difficult story that I’ve written. There were a couple of times when I feared for my own life.”
Guillermo Arriaga – writer of Amores perros (2000) and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) – has joined the project as creative producer. Pablo Guisa (Mórbido Group) and Gabriel Stavenhagen (Rotting in the Sun) serve as producers, while Andrés Arochi – who recently gained notoriety for Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs (2024) – is the director of photography.