{"id":163546,"date":"2025-09-27T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:01:09","slug":"chilean-horror-movie-daemon-to-blend-tech-romance-with-body-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163546\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Horror Movie \u2018D\u00e6mon\u2019 to Blend Tech Romance with Body Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chile\u2019s Valeria Hofmann, who won best director for short \u201cAliEN0089\u201d at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, is blending body horror and tech romance with her feature debut D\u00e6mon.<\/p>\n

The logline teases, \u201cIn a world where you can print DNA at home, why not print your own boyfriend?\u201d<\/p>\n

Set in the Chilean coastal town of Valpara\u00edso, D\u00e6mon follows \u201cLiz, a solitary content moderator who finds unexpected intimacy in a virtual lover. But when she learns he\u2019s not just code but a consciousness trapped within her computer, obsession takes root. As reality and simulation begin to collapse into each other, Liz becomes consumed with building him a physical form using a bioprinter that runs on blood \u2014 even if it means risking her own humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madrid-based\u00a0Amore Cine, founded by Paz L\u00e1zaro, Juan Pablo F\u00e9lix, and Edson Sidonie, has boarded the project, Variety<\/a> reports today.<\/p>\n

Hofmann\u2019s feature debut project won first place in Spain\u2019s ICAA Selective Grant and is aiming to start principal photography in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the very beginning, \u2018D\u00e6mon\u2019 captivated us with Valeria Hofmann\u2019s audacious and deeply personal female gaze breaking into genre cinema. Supporting a debut of such ambition alongside this wonderful team of producers has been truly exciting, each one bringing an energy that makes the project grow in an organic and inspiring way,\u201d said \u00darsula Budnik, co-founder of recently launched production entity Maquina alongside Augusto Matte and Fernando Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

Pascual Mena (\u201cAliEN0089\u201d) is also set to produce on the Chilean side.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more on D\u00e6mon as it arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chile\u2019s Valeria Hofmann, who won best director for short \u201cAliEN0089\u201d at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[74313,96,2839,56,54,55,74314],"class_list":["post-163546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-daemon","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-valeria-hofmann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}