Larraín's 'My Sad Dead' Trailer Debuts Ahead of Netflix Premiere — SkimNews
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- Pablo Larraín's Netflix miniseries 'My Sad Dead' unveiled its first trailer, with the four-part psychological horror based on stories by Argentine author Mariana Enriquez set to play in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival later this month before dropping on Netflix on September 24.
- Mercedes Morán stars as Ema, a retired doctor who can see and speak with the dead after her mother's death, joined by Dolores Fonzi, Alejandra Flechner, Carolina Álvarez, Carlos Portaluppi, Germán de Silva, and Chilean actress Luz Jiménez.
- The plot centers on the arrival of Ema's niece Julie and the murder of three local teenagers, triggering a phenomenon that breaks the fragile balance between the living and the dead across the neighborhood.
- Larraín produced the series through his Fabula banner and explicitly framed the horror as social realism, saying the terror lies in 'a city, poverty, violence, and people and social classes that have been forgotten' rather than supernatural shock.
- The director added that 'everyday life holds moments of terror, a quiet, unshowy kind of terror, stemming from things that are constantly close to you and, for that very reason, can be the most dangerous.'
Why it matters: Larraín — fresh off the Oscar-nominated 'El Conde' — is bringing an Argentine literary horror property to Netflix's prestige slate with a festival-platform double play, giving Enriquez's cult-followed stories their largest global audience to date via a September 24 launch after a San Sebastian competition bow.
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