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Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced two key territory sales on Peruvian found footage horror The Devil’s Teardrop, which recently won a top award at Mexico’s Morbido Film Festival.

Deals have locked with Front Row for the Middle East and Falcom Investment Ag for German-speaking Europe. Cmg launched sales at the recent AFM in Las Vegas.

Gonzalo Otero directed The Devil’s Teardrop, which explores Latin American folklore and the complexities of human nature and stars Sydney Amanuel, Javier Saavedra, Mia Rose Kavensky, and Gabriel Rysdahl.

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The seventeenth edition of Morbido has all but wrapped up for another year. Despite our absence we were still able to wrangle in some reviews for films made by our friends down south, with one more coming down the pipeline.    Gonzalo Otero's The Devil's Teardrop took home the Golden Skull this year in the LatAm while Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's The Devil's Bath took home the Golden Skull in the section. Yes, the devil was in the details this year.    Morbido alumni Nico and Lucionao Loretti, and Can Evrenol, once again took home Skull Awards for their films 1978 and Sayara respectively.    All the winners and statements from programmer José Luis Mejía Razo and mi padre de teror Pablo Guisa Koestinger lead to the...

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Jeffery Deaver is one of the most brilliantly intricate mystery writers of all time. One of his most complex and amazing books is The Devil's Teardrop. This book has now been made into a run of the mill, nothing out of the ordinary film on Lifetime Movie Network. It is standard "movie of the week" fare from beginning to end. Since it has such magnificent source material, this is a major disappointment. In the film, a killer strikes in Washington, DC. He fires upon a crowd at a train terminal and kills a number of people and wounds many more. He gets away with it much to the chagrin of the FBI and the local police. Later a ransom note is received saying unless a huge amount of money is paid in ransom the killer will strike again. The head of the...