The xenomorphs return this summer to their rightful place: movie theaters. The popular science fiction saga created by Ridley Scott 35 years ago he returned with Alien: Romulus.
At the front of the film you will find Fede Alvarez, a Uruguayan filmmaker who has made a name for himself in Hollywood largely thanks to horror. Among his best-known works you will find the remake of Infernal possession (Evil Dead), Do not breathe either Millennium: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
But Fede Álvarez has also made inroads into the field of series and, in fact, it has one in the Apple TV+ catalog that may interest you.
Is about Callsa remake of the French series of the same title, which makes use of a unique narrative to bring us nine stories in the form of an anthology that do not require large deployments of media.
What is it about Calls?
Fede Álvarez’s horror series for Apple TV+ depicts phone calls – hence the title – that will take quite sinister turns. This is its synopsis:
“Innovative and immersive experience based on the French series of the same name that masterfully uses sound and minimal abstract visual elements to tell nine chilling short stories.
Each episode follows a dramatic mystery that unfolds through several seemingly normal and unconnected phone conversations that become increasingly surreal as the characters’ lives succumb to chaos.“.
The cast of Calls includes Nick Jonas, Lily Collins, Rosario Dawson, Joey King, Pedro Pascal, Mark Duplass, Karen Gillan, Judy Greer, Aubrey Plaza, Danny Pudi, Paul Walter Hauser, Jaeden Martell, Riley Keough, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ben Schwartz, Jennifer Tilly , Nicholas Braun, Clancy Brown, Danny Huston, Stephen Lang, Paola Nuñez and Edi Patterson.
With episodes of just 15 minutes, Calls is a perfect way to see the experimental side of Fede Álvarez before launching into space to enjoy Alien: Romuluswhich hits theaters August 15.
