IN FULL BLUM
BINGO HELL
DIRECTOR GIGI SAUL GUERRERO HAS one person to thank for her blood-spattered new horror movie Bingo Hell: her grandma. “My grandma is obsessed with Loteria, which is the Mexican version of bingo,” she explains. “She plays it every Sunday with her siblings. I was having a conversation with my co-writer Shane McKenzie, whose wife’s relatives are religiously obsessed with bingo. He said, ‘Gigi, what would happen if we took bingo away from them?’ I said, ‘Listen, man, my grandma would murder somebody!’”
The rest, as they say, is (ahem) a horror story. Set in the tiny American town of Oak Spring, follows Lupita (Adriana Barraza), a bingo-loving, gangster-bandana-wearing senior who is stubbornly refusing to move out of her home as gentrification sweeps through the neighbourhood. Sick of the hipsters taking over with their coffee shops, she is further horrified when her beloved community-centre bingo hall is shut down, replaced by a gaudy new hall run by the
