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Shady dealings

Lolo is a naive and shy boy with the fervent desire to buy a beautiful car to make any pretty girl to notice him. The great offer arrives across a classified advertisement on a newspaper, having to close the deal with el Muerto and acquiring in that purchase more than a car: The spirit of Anna, who was killed at the seller’s hands inside the same car and now she has returned to cry out revenge. The ghost now has powered of the car and Lolo must decide among help Anna or die.

  • Miguel Muri
    Director
  • Miguel Muri
    Writer
  • Miguel Muri
    Producer
  • Ana Lozada
    Key Cast
    Ana
  • Dimitri Araque
    Key Cast
    Lolo
  • Eduardo Castellanos
    Key Cast
    Muerto
  • Yaratzely Hernández
    Key Cast
    Chica coqueta
  • Tania García
    Crew
    Production
  • Charlie Umaña
    Crew
    Photography
  • Rodrigo Cordero
    Crew
    Sound
  • Mitchell López
    Crew
    Photography asistant
  • Mercedes García
    Crew
    Make up
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Tratos oscuros
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Horror comedy
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 MXN
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital Full HD 1920x1080
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Miguel Muri

Born in Puebla, Mexico, in november 19th 1981. Studied engineering but his real love always has been the filmmaking so like dramatic arts. Never studied filmmaking as a career but has made a lot of courses and workshops about this. He began his training studying at Casazul Artes Escenicas Argos, school of acting in Mexico City. After that jumped to filmmaking studies since script writing, production, photography, postproduction and actors direction. He has directed, photographed and produced some short films and videoclips. All of them independant.
Currently is working on his own next project, the writing of a horror long film script about nahualism and witches based on the popular legends of the mexican culture and with this project he participates in Jóvenes creadores 2016 of Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes by Conaculta in the category cinematographic script.

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Director Statement

"Shady dealings" is my first short film. This idea was born from a nightmare of my cousin. In his dream, he bought a car and when he was to park in his garage he noticed that a corpse was hidden in the trunk. He told me about his nightmare and quickly I began to imagine that scene. That's how "Shady dealings" was born. The horror genre has not been my predilection, I don't like so much the blood, the dismembered bodies or the guts, but it does the horror comedy. I love acid humor, that's why I wanted to give to my cousin's nightmare a touch of comedy.