Alejandro Ibáñez: "I never saw Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, my father, be scared with a horror movie"

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Alejandro Ibáñez, together with his father, Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, in 2002.

The Madrid director, son of the mythical Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, makes his debut as a feature film director with 'Urubú', a horror film set in the Amazon

Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, who died in 2019, was a television and film director who revolutionized the national audiovisual scene with such successful television formats as

or

and films such as

or

.

The latter, considered one of the great works of national horror cinema, has served his son

(Madrid, 1980) as a reference for shooting

In it,

tells the story of a family that embarks on a great adventure in the Amazon jungle that will have tragic consequences.

And all because of the efforts of Tomás (Carlos Urrutia), the father, to be

, something that will lead his daughter and his wife (Clarice Alves) to meet a group of children in a place where, in theory, they should be alone.

Eva (Clarice Alves) and Tomás (Carlos Urrutia) make up a marriage in crisis

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But, due to his death, in June 2019, the great genius of terror could only see a small sample of what viewers will now be able to see in theaters.

It should be said that, although it is his first feature film as a director, he has been in the industry for a long time ... Yes, of course.

Apart from having worked in many productions, I have shot several documentaries.

And of course, I grew up

in the

.

Between set shoots and screenwriting meetings, but always close to my father.

Even when we were on vacation he taught me how to take a camera, how to handle the spotlights ... Having been with a father like Chicho has helped me to learn about this medium every day. be called Chicho without even knowing him and not so much Narciso, his real name?

Everyone knew him as Chicho because he was always in their homes.

It is part of the family of all Spaniards.

When you talk about

anyone over 40 will tell you that Chicho is part of their family.

Everyone remembers sitting down to watch his show and letting him into their homes.

It was always there.

When he died, I said that "not my father had died but the father of many of us."

His debut feature has been surrounded by adverse circumstances of all kinds ... It has been an adventure.

If I had done a

it would give me many hours.

I wanted to do it and I did it very fast.

It may have been done so fast that it meant having flaws at the narrative level, but it had to be that way.

Time was running out because the one who was really leaving was my father.

The fact of doing things that way and fighting against wind, rain and mosquitoes was to shoot something from the heart and without rest, as did the rest of a team that has given everything.

The film opens with a dedication to his father.

Did you see it finished before you

away? With

I wanted to pay tribute to his cinema and, above all, to his film

with lots of winks.

He died months after we shot

, but without it being completed.

He only got to see a few scenes and a trailer that I made in a hurry for him.

The idea was to mount it together, but it couldn't be.

Alejandro Ibáñez is the director of 'Urubú'.

It was very groundbreaking at the time. When people see it they are very surprised at how something like this could be done in the 70s. I am left with how "well" it has aged.

It was shot without abusing technology and special effects, so that people could imagine the "monster" and the fear.

I have tried to do something like that with

.

It happens to me that, when I see the

,

or some of the

saga

, I burst out laughing because they have become old as technology has evolved so much since then.

At the time they would be fantastic, but now ...

It has not aged visually and seems current if you consider the narrative part.

And it is still shocking today how Chicho had the courage to do something like that in the 70s and in English! When did he see her? At 14 or so, at home and with my father explaining to me everything he had done: that he went out, my mother and my uncle, who is the baddest child of all. And is not it strange to know the tricks of a horror film?

It has always happened to me.

I didn't want to ask my father too much about how a feature film was made for fear of losing the magic.

And that I have been able to see over time.

When my daughters go to a set now, they immediately get bored and it seems strange to them if they only see a sequence and do not understand the context. And you, did you spend a lot of time with your father? Chicho always blamed himself for not having passed all the time that he would have wanted with his family.

Due to his work, he was not at home much.

I was lucky enough to be able to accompany him on his filming as soon as he left class.

Tomás (Carlos Urrutia) suffers an odyssey when he tries to photograph an exotic bird.

What reaction would you like to have from the public with

? I would like people to feel fear and, incidentally, make a complaint about how many marriages are in crisis because one of its members is obsessed with working and that there is more money in House.

What happens is that his family only sees that the more he works, the less time he spends with them.

Sometimes you have to choose between work and family.

You can not have everything.

I've spent a lot of time filming outside and I've seen my daughters grow up and I didn't see them.

Sometimes it is better to sacrifice some work and have a little financial time to be with them.

That time does not recover. Going back to your father, were you aware of that fine irony that he displayed in each of his television interventions? And so much ... He was aware of everything he did.

His irony was always something very, very calculated.

When he said something at home you had to make a great effort to read between the lines.

He was not very spontaneous, but only said what he had thought well. Was your father afraid of horror movies? Well, if I look back it would be hard for me to tell you one.

I never saw him get scared with a horror movie.

He watched movies in a different way than the rest.

Sometimes he could not hear the dialogue because he was more aware of the camera movement.

Mind you, our favorite movie was

.

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