Damián Alcázar enters the horror genre for the first time in his career. Although known for films such as Herod’s Law and Hell, he is now filming Sonata for a Dead Man in Panama, a suspense thriller. But before that, a personal experience marked his relationship with the supernatural.
A childhood memory that you will not forget
At the age of five, while a wedding was taking place in the neighborhood where he lived, he entered a bathroom and saw two elderly people sitting. “I left and then I heard the scream of the girl who was getting married saying that her deceased grandparents were there,” he says. “It didn’t scare me because I didn’t understand what had happened; I only saw two very clear people.”
Years later, he tried to contact a deceased woman he liked, but gave up: “I thought it was just getting involved with something else and I left it there.”
That feeling helped him consider Los huérfanos, a Colombian film about exorcisms. “I read the script and I was reluctant because it’s not my material, but it was well written. It’s a genre that has a lot of magic, let’s play,” he explains.
Among international projects
Currently, Alcázar is filming Sonata for a Dead Man in Panama, directed by Ignacio Salazar-Simpson, with María de Nati, Javier Godino and Salva Reina. About his character, he comments:
“He is a Mexican drug trafficker stuck in an apartment full of Spaniards and let’s say he is the most honest of all because he is authentic and faithful to his convictions.”
Carcoma just finished in Spain, a black comedy that opens doors in that market. After Panama, he will return to Mexico for a series. At the beginning of the year he was seen on television with El Mochaorejas, based on a kidnapper from the 90s.
