XP3D: Spanish horror for the first time in stereoscopic

'XP3D' hits Spanish screens this week as a physical horror film, without too many digital effects that could mislead and with an interesting stereoscopic narrative under the direction of Sergi Vicaíno.

Madrid's Gran Vía was dressed up this Thursday for the premiere of XP3D (in the United States, Paranormal XPerience 3D), the first Spanish horror film with great commercial significance, which was shot in 3D. Produced by Antena 3 Films, Rodar y Rodar and Chromosome 22 Films, with Sony Pictures in charge of distribution, this Spanish-style “Texas massacre” presents all the ingredients to have a hit on the screens starting today: very popular faces from the small screen combined with stereomania.

Directed by Sergi Vizcaíno, director and producer of numerous works for television, XP3D stars Amaia Salamanca, Úrsula Corberó, Maxi Iglesias, Luis Fernández “Perla”, Alba Ribas and Oscar Sinela.

Vizcaíno has commented that as a "first feature film, it is presented as a challenge. But one of those that you want to face, because you know that it is already part of you and you must share it. It is a horror film, but a terror from within. It is a journey to the dark side of each one, because we all have it. Some have it in an insignificant portion, others have it very repressed, and others have already been possessed by it."

For Vizcaíno, "horror cinema should not evolve into spectacular moments or avant-garde technical resources. Pure terror is what is suggested. That is why I propose XP3D like a physical horror movie, without digital effects that could mislead. And here comes a new narrative, 3D.”

"When a director is approached about a 3D shoot, he can have two reactions, one of rejection and fear, and another of extra motivation and excitement. In my case it was the second. How can someone reject the challenge of being one of the pioneers in this new cinematographic language that invades us?" asks the director.

Filming took place over six weeks in locations in Barcelona, ​​Cardona, Caldes de Montbui, El Garraf and Cambrós with a stereoscopic rig equipped with two RED cameras, with equipment supplied by Ovid.

The story

Angela is a psychiatry student who is skeptical about the existence of the paranormal world. The toughest and most eccentric professor at the school proposes to Ángela and a group of students to prove or deny the existence of the afterlife by investigating a mining town with a dark history.

Ángela and four classmates begin the trip to Susurro, in the company of Diana, Ángela's younger sister, who lends them her van. Their relationship has been cold since childhood, when tragic events irrevocably separated them. Together they tour the town and the old salt mines. Without heeding the warnings, they open a portal to the afterlife, with unpredictable consequences.

"In XP3D We are going to take the viewer to terrifying places, we will physically place them there and we will not let them escape. We will follow the protagonists through long and dark basements where 3D will transport them to their worst nightmares,” says Vizcaíno.

Roll and Roll

The film and television production company Rodar y Rodar was founded 20 years ago, and over time, the company directed by Joaquín Padró and Mar Targarona has become one of the most solid production companies in the Spanish audiovisual industry. Currently, Rodar y Rodar is dedicated to filming XP3D, an ambitious production shot in 3D with the latest technologies. It is a horror story, a genre (which, along with thriller), has become the production company's specialty.

Rodar's filmography is backed by great titles such as The Orphanage (2007), the most awarded Spanish film of the past decade and the highest grossing of national cinema in the year of its release. The film participated in numerous festivals (Cannes, Toronto, New York...), achieving great success with critics and audiences. She also won 7 Goya awards, 7 City of Barcelona awards and was selected to represent Spain at the 2008 Oscars at the Hollywood Academy. With an unprecedented international projection, the film was sold to more than 40 countries where it was released with excellent box office results.

After the success of The Orphanage, the production company continues to break records doing what it does best: producing quality films that receive public recognition. His latest work, the thriller Julia's Eyes, premiered last October at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. Six weeks in theaters were enough to make it the second most viewed Spanish film of 2010. In addition, its leading actress, Belén Rueda, received a Goya Award nomination for her performance in the film. Julia's Eyes She was also awarded the 2010 NAECE award, awarded by the Association of Film Entrepreneurs of Spain.

As for Chromosome 22 Films, the other co-production company along with Antena 3 Films and Rodar y Rodar, it is a company founded by Raquel Carreras in 1995 in Los Angeles. Carreras produced his first independent film with Destiny Turns on the Radior, also known as Johnny Destiny, starring Quentin Tarantino and Jim Belushi, and distributed in the US by Savoy.

Raquel Carreras also produced Black Circle Boys, written and directed by Matthew Carnahan, which premiered in 1997 at the Sundance Film Festival, in American Spectrum. Critically acclaimed for its direction and innovative style, it secured international distribution through Alliance Atlantis. Eat Your Heart Out was the next project together with the well-known Perecy Adalon (Baghdad Cafe), and another upcoming comedy, All’s Fair in Love, which he co-wrote with Jack Black.

Raquel has recently teamed up with the highly anticipated period comedy Amantes, Lies and Thieves (Lovers, Liars and Thieves) written and directed by Jeremy Leven (Don Juan De Marcos, Noah's Diary) with producers Querin Berg and Max Wiedemann, winners of the Oscar for best foreign film with The Life of Others.

Technical Sheet XP3D

• Director: SERGI VIZCAÍNO
• Producers: MAR TARGARONA, JOAQUÍN PADRÓ and RAQUEL CARRERAS
• Production company: RODAR Y RODAR cinema and Television, Chromosome 22 and Antena 3 Films.
• Screenplay: DANIEL PADRÓ
• Production Director: REYES MATABUENA
• Artistic director: ROSA ROS
• Photography Director: SERGI BARTROLI
• Editing: JOAN MANEL VILASECA
• Direct sound: FERRAN MENGOD
• Music: MARC VAILLO
• Makeup: MONICA ALCORCÓN
• Hairdresser: JESUS ​​GARCIA
• Costumes: MARIA REYES
• Special Effects: DDT- APUNTOLAPOSPO ENRIC MASSIP
• Casting Director: TONUCHA VIDAL AND ANDRÉS CUENCA
• Still photo: QUIM VIVES
• Filming start: 05/09/2011
• Weeks/Filming Duration: 6 WEEKS
• Distribution: SONY PICTURES RELEASING SPAIN
• Locations: BARCELONA, CARDONA, CALDES DE MONTBUI, EL GARRAF I CAMBRÓS
• Format: DIGITAL 3D

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