**_Five youths inadvertently unleash Xipe Totec_** This is an Italian film, shot in Italy with a (mostly) Italian cast & crew; one glance at the credits verifies this. Yet the production company was American, which supplied a budget of $15,000 and not $300,000 as cited on IMDb. Everyone got paid except for the two writers, one of which was also the director, Samuele Breschi. So, this is a spare change indie, but it’s so proficiently made you wouldn’t know it. Like “Body Count” from 1986, it’s a wholly Italian production, yet the story takes place in America. As such, the characters’ inte…
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