Set in early Nineteen Nineties Mexico City, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s newest supernatural thriller Silver Nitrate (13 hours) will attraction to movie buffs in addition to followers of horror fiction. Montserrat is a proficient sound editor, however she has a tough time discovering regular work within the male-dominated Mexican movie trade. When her oldest pal (and lifelong romantic curiosity), a washed-up actor, strikes in subsequent door to a horror director, he and Montserrat embark on a darkish and harmful quest that may change their lives, for higher or for worse. Narrator Gisela Chipe excels on the frequent shifts between English and Spanish, and though at instances her supply is a bit of flat, she successfully imbues a spread of secondary characters—each these offering comedian reduction and people who are extra menacing—with particular person personalities.
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