Álex de la Iglesia and Telecinco Cinema film together again in 'Los Muértimer'

Filming of 'Los Muértimer' begins’, a feature film directed by Álvaro Fernández Armero that combines mystery, horror and funereal humor, and which represents a new union of the film subsidiary of Mediaset Spain y Pokeepsie Movies (Álex de la Iglesia) after 'Perfect Strangers' and 'The Fourth Passenger'.

With script Present Morales, the film is a story of mystery, terror and funereal humor based on the successful comic book trilogy The Muertimers by the young French illustrator Léa Mazé, nominated for the prestigious Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in the United States and present in the selection of the Angoulême International Comic Festival. The film, whose filming will take place over seven weeks in various locations in Vizcaya, tells the story of five friends who discover a plot of jewel thefts in a cemetery without any adult believing them.

Produced by Telecinco Cinema y Alex de la Iglesia (Pokeepsie Movies), The Muertimers is directed by Álvaro Fernández Armero, author of feature films such as Eight Moroccan surnames, If I were rich o We are sorry for the inconvenience. He department It is made up of figures such as Víctor Clavijo, Alexandra Jiménez, Fele Martínez, Belén Rueda, Pepe Lorente, Diego Montejo, Iratxe Emparan and Melani García, among others.

This is the synopsis complete of The Muertimers: "Gabi (Iratxe Emparan) arrives from France as an exchange student to a small town in the imaginary Murrieta Valley, in the north of Spain. She stays at the home of Nico Mortimer (Diego Montejo) and his parents, Marisa (Alexandra Jiménez) and Sebastián Mortimer (Víctor Clavijo), who run the town's funeral home, located next to the municipal cemetery. The two boys suffer bullying at school due to the peculiar trade of the Mortimer family, better known by the locals as “The Muértimers”. For this reason, they almost always take refuge in the cemetery, the only place where no one messes with them.”

"One day, Pol (Pepe Lorente), the tombstone carver, tells them one of the many paranormal stories hidden in the cemetery and they decide to investigate. The discovery of a bloody corpse and some stolen jewelry brings them back to reality. When they alert Nico's parents of the cruel murder, someone has cleaned the crime scene and fled with the loot, so no one believes them. From that moment on Gabi and Nico receive several death threats. Despite the terror "which means feeling watched, they are willing to discover the truth, even if that means putting their lives at risk and entering fully into the shadowy world of adults."