TIFF 2012: Blood Flies in Latest Image from Eli Roth’s Aftershock

Steve Barton |

Jul 31, 2012

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Toronto International Film Festival

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Earlier Eli Roth made mention that his latest endeavor, Aftershock, would be having its world premiere as an official selection of the Midnight Madness portion of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. You know what that means? Time for more blood to fly!

TIFF runs from September 6th-16th.

Aftershock, an earthquake thriller scripted by Cabin Fever and Hostel‘s Eli Roth, Nicolas Lopez, and Guillermo Amoedo, revolves around an insane asylum on an island, where the inmates escape during the quake.

It’s the next “Eli Roth Presents” film, and it marks the English-language debut from director Nicolas Lopez. His last two films, Que Pena Tu Vida and Que Pena Tu Boda, were the highest-grossing Chilean films of 2010 and 2011. Roth most recently produced The Last Exorcism, a microbudget film that grossed $70 million worldwide.

Roth and Lopez wrote the story together, inspired by the latter’s experience when an earthquake devastated Chile in 2010. The film is several weeks into production in Chile. In his first big acting role since Inglourious Basterds, Roth plays the lead. Among the other cast is Selena Gomez, who was in Chile doing a concert and came over to do a cameo. Lopez’s frequent collaborators Ariel Levy, Nicolas Martinez, and Lorenza Izzo also star along with Natasha Yarovenko, Andrea Osvart, and Miguel Asensio.

Check out the images below – the first of which is new!