It’s Mexico City in the 1990s, where beepers, cigarettes, and the ghost of an ex-girlfriend come alive as if leaping from the page. Silvia Moreno-Garcia does it again with this creepy and unforgettable occult thriller, teeming with the decadence of old horror movies. “Hip as hell, Silver Nitrate delivers a cinematic and exhilarating punch. but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.Īs they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies. Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives-even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy.

And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. “No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”-Kiersten White, #1 bestselling author of Hide From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film-and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.

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