THE HOUSE OF THE BEAST

LA CASA DEL MONSTRUO

By Xavier CHAVEZ

PERROSOBESOS - as PROD

Drama - Development 2024

A city anthropologist has recurring dreams: she is a rural girl that is abducted to be sold as a prostitute. She discovers this girl really exists. She decides to rescue her.

Festivals
& Awards

blood window 2020
selección
Fondos Ecuador 2020
Ganador Fondos de Desarrollo
FANTASOLAB 2022
Selección y Participación
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
    • Countries
    • ECUADOR
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Xavier CHAVEZ
    • Writer(s)
    • Xavier CHAVEZ, Ivonne CAMPOVERDE
    • Producer(s)
    • Ivonne CAMPOVERDE (PERROSOBESOS), Roberto AGUIRRE (URBANO FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Lucrecia (30), anthropologist and professor live in the city with her boyfriend, she is happy, the only thing discomforting her are the strange recurring dreams that she has had for three years, she lives a double life, when she sleeps she is Sofia (16), a rural girl, orphaned by her mother and troubles living with her drunk father. When Sofia is abducted, to be sold as a prostitute Lucrecia’s dream become nightmares.
      Lucrecia doesn’t want to dream anymore, not finding a solution to her dreamlike fantasies and discovering, through a newspaper article, that Sofia really EXISTS, she decides to go to the town to help her, who on the other hand dreams she is Lucrecia.
    • Partners & financing
    • Fondos Gubernamentales Ecuador
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Jun 11, 2023