Terror, intrigues and action in the set of OPEN GRAVES
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Terror, intrigues and action in the set of the sanatorium of Gorliz
The hospital is one of the sets of the film Open Graves, that is shooted these days in several points of the Vizcain coast. It's a film with international projection, with Bilbao and American production. A phantasmagoric old woman, with white long hair, suddenly burst into the terrace of the Hospital Gorliz wearing a gloomy green bathrobe, scaring everybody. It is not that one of the patients has become crazy and wants to escape of the sanatorium; it is an actress in a role that was thought for making the Open Graves' viewers stand up of their chairs.
And it is because the goliztarra sanatorium, like several points of the vizcain coast, has become during these days a set to the purest Californian style. The Madrilenian Alvaro de Armiñán is shooting his prime opera, a terror movie with Spanish and American production. "It is a dream to be able to begin as director in a film like this; I always thought that I would have to fight with the budget, with just three actors and in the middle of the mountain", he comments.
The locations have been chosen by the production equipment. "We are very lucky, because when we have needed rain, we have had it, and the good weather is surprising us", Juanma Pagazaurtundua, production director, explains. The photography is Josu Intxausti's responsibility, and to him the place could not have been better: "it is not because I am from here, I am objective, but the scenes that we have shooted in Punta Galea or Azkorri seem made in Californian beaches".
Young Stars
The main stars are two emergent stars of the new American cinema, Eliza Dushku (well-known by her roles in shows like Buffy or Tru Calling) and Mike Vogel (seen recently in Poseidon). Both are delighted to shoot here; "I love people here, so sociable, and mainly the food, in special the sirloin...", Vogel says, who wants to invent something to take an Iberian jam to the United States. Her coworker, however, has remained in love with our beaches. "Here I have learned to surf and I think I'll take a table as souvenir; and I will return by vacations ", the always smiling Eliza exclaims.
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OMG it's gonna be creepier than I thought it would be lol