The Girl from Innsmouth directed and written by Roberto García-Álvarez

What did Roberto García-Álvarez say about his film?

The Girl from Innsmouth is a descent into desire, ritual, and the unspoken terrors that lie beneath ordinary nights. Set in a city overshadowed by the fear of the serial killer known as Tas-Tas, the film brings together two women, Ann and Asenath, in a meeting that feels fated. Their attraction is immediate, but passion here is never innocent—each of them carries a secret, and their encounter will unravel into revelation, ritual, and blood.

Drawing inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Shadow over Innsmouth,’ the film reimagines cosmic horror through a female gaze, where the intimacy of two strangers collides with ancient conspiracies, vengeance, and forbidden legacies. The mythic weight of Innsmouth echoes not in distant ruins but in the bodies, voices, and rituals of the present, where history and desire fuse into something terrifyingly inevitable.

As director, my intention was to weave two strands: the modern anxiety of urban violence—echoed in the figure of Tas-Tas—and the timeless dread of Lovecraftian myth. The encounter between Ann and Asenath is framed not only as seduction, but as a mirror of inherited trauma and dark destiny. The camera lingers on gestures, shadows, and silence, turning intimacy into invocation, and passion into sacrifice.

Our cast embraced this duality: vulnerability and strength, fear and desire. Behind the camera, the crew worked to create an atmosphere where realism bleeds into nightmare—lighting, sound, and texture were designed to blur the line between eroticism and horror, between whispered secrets and cosmic chants.

Cinema should confront and disturb as much as it seduces. The Girl from Innsmouth is both a love story and a curse, a nocturnal hymn to the shadows that inhabit us all. In its rituals, perhaps, we recognize our own fears—and the passions that we can neither silence nor escape.