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EXCLUSIVE: Director Mikhail Red shares details on Bea Alonzo’s new horror movie ‘Eerie’

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Rhea Manila Santos

<div> </div>After his indie film Birdshot got rave reviews last year, director Mikhail Red said he is ready to start legwork on his first Star Cinema project Eerie which he also wrote. “It’s actually my first straight up horror genre film. Kasi yung last three films ko very in the middle ng arthouse pero may genre elements. So finally i-e-explore ko yung horror genre. Matagal na akong fan ng horror and I think it’s a good genre to smuggle important subtext kasi at least may ma-ri-reach tayong wide audience while saying something important, parang ganun. I think yun yung exciting dito that Star Cinema has their own system na may internal creatives, they make their own genre movies pero for the first time they are investing in an independent filmmaker na may sariling vision and they’re trusting us,” he told PUSH.Red said his collaboration with Star Cinema was an unexpected surprise. The young director said he has actually been making films since he was 15 years old with Eerie being his fourth big screen project. “Actually itong project na ito matagal na. We were pitching it internationally kasi yung objective was to make a horror film na may market locally but it’s something that is genre but also has substance. We were looking for partners abroad pero luckily Star Cinema found us when they were also there in Korea and agreed to help us in this movie. I guess it’s a unique project and an exciting partnership so expect something different,” he recalled.Eerie is scheduled to start shooting in March with an international premiere set for July. Lead stars Bea Alonzo and Charo Santos-Concio were Red’s first choice when he started casting. “Actually we didn’t have anyone in mind yet pero nung na-meet namin ang Star Cinema we asked them and sila first choice ko from the start. And then I was so lucky we had to pitch it to them kasi si Ms. Charo very picky sa roles so na-flatter ako na tingin niya it’s a story worth telling and she accepted it,” he said.In the film, Charo plays the headmistress while Bea plays the guidance counselor of an all-girls school. “It’s a horror film that is a murder mystery. It’s set in an old Catholic school in the late 1990s, in an exclusive school for girls. A student is found murdered and Bea and Ma’am Charo are in the middle of this whole mystery and investigation,” he added.