It was just yesterday that we posted the international sales poster for No Do - known as The Beckoning outside of Spain - the latest project from La Hora Fria (The Cold Hours) director Elio Quiroga. We're still waiting for a trailer on this one - and expecting rather a lot from it since La Hora Fria was pretty much a textbook example of what talent can accomplish on a budget - but in the meantime we've just stumbled across the official - and much superior, in my opinion - Spanish poster for the film. Very nice.
Shot in Spanish with substantial high-tech effects, “NO-DO” is a horror story in which a woman sees ghosts. The explanation to their appearance lies in an old NO-DO newsreel (i.e., one of the state-sanctioned documentaries made during Franco’s regime).The film speculates around the little known “Secret NO-DOs”, made in the 40s for the Catholic Church in Spain. It is told that those confidential films were used by exorcists to document supernatural events using a special film emulsion designed for this purpose. Some “Secret NO-DOs” are rumored to be stored in subterranean vaults in the Congregazione del Santo Uffizio, Rome, but its existence is officialy denied by catholic church leaders.
