Ricardo Islas

Ricardo Islas

Birth : 1969-05-16, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

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Ricardo Islas (Born May 16, 1969 in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay) is a horror director and producer, known for Night Fangs (2005), The Sacrifice (2015), The Day of the Dead (2007), and for portraying the killer in the slasher film The Last Matinee (2020).

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Ricardo Islas

Movies

Night Hunt
Crowley
A fast-paced violent horror movie with a social twist, Night Hunt is more than the story of a brutal killer roaming the streets of Chicago. It's also the story of two restless warrioresses to save the city they love.
Night Hunt
Writer
A fast-paced violent horror movie with a social twist, Night Hunt is more than the story of a brutal killer roaming the streets of Chicago. It's also the story of two restless warrioresses to save the city they love.
Night Hunt
Director
A fast-paced violent horror movie with a social twist, Night Hunt is more than the story of a brutal killer roaming the streets of Chicago. It's also the story of two restless warrioresses to save the city they love.
The Last Matinee
Asesino comeojos
On a stormy night in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. But, unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she’s running starts being murdered by a crazed killer.
The Sacrifice
Writer
Something seems to lurk in the dark around an old house in Chicago. Soon enough, death will visit the new family that has just moved in there. Nobody is safe anymore, as they face a vicious unstoppable evil that will not rest until it has achieved its mission... But what is that mission? What does it want? And who is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop it?
The Sacrifice
Director
Something seems to lurk in the dark around an old house in Chicago. Soon enough, death will visit the new family that has just moved in there. Nobody is safe anymore, as they face a vicious unstoppable evil that will not rest until it has achieved its mission... But what is that mission? What does it want? And who is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop it?
Bachelors Grove
Writer
Bachelors Grove Cemetery is one of the top ten scariest places in America, often featured in main stream television networks. "Bachelors Grove" is the first movie ever made inspired on this subject.
Bachelors Grove
Producer
Bachelors Grove Cemetery is one of the top ten scariest places in America, often featured in main stream television networks. "Bachelors Grove" is the first movie ever made inspired on this subject.
Bachelors Grove
Director
Bachelors Grove Cemetery is one of the top ten scariest places in America, often featured in main stream television networks. "Bachelors Grove" is the first movie ever made inspired on this subject.
Frankenstein Day of the Beast
Director
In a foggy winter morning, a raft brings a priest to an isolated island. He is getting paid to perform a wedding ritual under very mysterious conditions. The groom is Victor Frankenstein, and the young and beautiful bride is his cousin Elizabeth. Seven armed and dangerous mercenary soldiers have been hired to protect her against something huge that hides in the woods, awaiting for that wedding night to be consummated. Victor is the only one who knows the truth about their enemy. His secret will be paid with the life of his private army, whose men will die one by one, as the creature gets closer to his target: the bride.
Zombie Farm
Writer
A small town in the South is terrorized when Zombies and Voodoo collide.
Zombie Farm
Director
A small town in the South is terrorized when Zombies and Voodoo collide.
Flowers on the Water
Editor
This is the story of two German poets, children of immigrants, who found a corner of the Río de la Plata to settle down. Hanna does not find the meaning of life in a world where values and communication have been lost. Klaus, her husband, has a hard time understanding her and struggles to save the marriage that is threatened. In a pub they meet a young poet, Heinz, reciting Rilke, Hölderlin and Baudelaire. Hanna sees in him the opportunity to get away from this troubled world and will want to climb on his wide wings. From that moment on, the marriage goes adrift, led by Hanna's dreams and Klaus's rationality. A story of love, madness and poetry.
El día de los muertos
Writer
Based on true facts, a gang of suburban kids is sport-killing home-less people just for fun in the streets of Chicago. One day, they decide to try a new excitement, by murdering a young Mexican working girl, assuming there would be no consequences since she was illegal. They were wrong…
El día de los muertos
Director
Based on true facts, a gang of suburban kids is sport-killing home-less people just for fun in the streets of Chicago. One day, they decide to try a new excitement, by murdering a young Mexican working girl, assuming there would be no consequences since she was illegal. They were wrong…
To Kill a Killer
Editor
Salomon Caramona and Lyndsey Jimenez are a hit-man and his wife who have to flee Mexico to Chicago when Caramona doesn't finish a hit. Unknown to him, the man that hired Caramona for the original hit, tracks him down in Chicago and is willing to forgive the original hit if the former assassin will find a serial killer that tortured and murdered his daughter.
To Kill a Killer
Writer
Salomon Caramona and Lyndsey Jimenez are a hit-man and his wife who have to flee Mexico to Chicago when Caramona doesn't finish a hit. Unknown to him, the man that hired Caramona for the original hit, tracks him down in Chicago and is willing to forgive the original hit if the former assassin will find a serial killer that tortured and murdered his daughter.
To Kill a Killer
Director
Salomon Caramona and Lyndsey Jimenez are a hit-man and his wife who have to flee Mexico to Chicago when Caramona doesn't finish a hit. Unknown to him, the man that hired Caramona for the original hit, tracks him down in Chicago and is willing to forgive the original hit if the former assassin will find a serial killer that tortured and murdered his daughter.
Lockout
Writer
An man gets fired when he fails to adapt to certain changes in the company where he's worked for over ten years. As a result of this, he and his family are forced to move to an old house in rural Wisconsin, where bizarre events will gradually turn their lives into nothing but hell on Earth...
Lockout
Director
An man gets fired when he fails to adapt to certain changes in the company where he's worked for over ten years. As a result of this, he and his family are forced to move to an old house in rural Wisconsin, where bizarre events will gradually turn their lives into nothing but hell on Earth...
Night Fangs
Professor Nashy
Two Art Teachers are obsessed with eternal youth. Somehow they manage to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Soon, they start to practice bloody rituals that end up unleashing hell on earth. Two lesbian art teachers obsessed with eternal youth have managed to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Performing bloody rituals, they accidentally unleash an ancient evil that will devour their flesh and souls...
Night Fangs
Writer
Two Art Teachers are obsessed with eternal youth. Somehow they manage to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Soon, they start to practice bloody rituals that end up unleashing hell on earth. Two lesbian art teachers obsessed with eternal youth have managed to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Performing bloody rituals, they accidentally unleash an ancient evil that will devour their flesh and souls...
Night Fangs
Director
Two Art Teachers are obsessed with eternal youth. Somehow they manage to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Soon, they start to practice bloody rituals that end up unleashing hell on earth. Two lesbian art teachers obsessed with eternal youth have managed to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Performing bloody rituals, they accidentally unleash an ancient evil that will devour their flesh and souls...
Headcrusher
Writer
A mobster kills his cheating girlfriend and her lover and bury the bodies in a wall. Twenty years later, construction workers disturb the area and the horrible secret is discovered.
Headcrusher
Director
A mobster kills his cheating girlfriend and her lover and bury the bodies in a wall. Twenty years later, construction workers disturb the area and the horrible secret is discovered.
Miedo Silencioso
Writer
Miedo Silencioso
Director
Bad Blood
Writer
After getting fired, a man goes to the town of Castillos, Uruguay, in search of employment. There he meets a strange woman, and his life becomes a nightmare of horror and death.
Bad Blood
Editor
After getting fired, a man goes to the town of Castillos, Uruguay, in search of employment. There he meets a strange woman, and his life becomes a nightmare of horror and death.
Bad Blood
Director
After getting fired, a man goes to the town of Castillos, Uruguay, in search of employment. There he meets a strange woman, and his life becomes a nightmare of horror and death.
Bad Blood
Leo
After getting fired, a man goes to the town of Castillos, Uruguay, in search of employment. There he meets a strange woman, and his life becomes a nightmare of horror and death.
La Trampa
Director
Full Moon
Bloody crimes shake a little village. A bunch of teenagers discover the cause of these killings is a werewolf that has arrived to stay. Things turn real wild when the werewolf discovers them.
Full Moon
Writer
Bloody crimes shake a little village. A bunch of teenagers discover the cause of these killings is a werewolf that has arrived to stay. Things turn real wild when the werewolf discovers them.
Full Moon
Director
Bloody crimes shake a little village. A bunch of teenagers discover the cause of these killings is a werewolf that has arrived to stay. Things turn real wild when the werewolf discovers them.
Into the Darkness
Some new age UFO lovers groups have announced that the Earth will be without energy and sunlight for three days. Three dark days of galactic cleaning by superior light brothers. Behind this apocalyptic resource is a depraved alien plan to start an invasion and supplant humankind leaders.
Into the Darkness
Writer
Some new age UFO lovers groups have announced that the Earth will be without energy and sunlight for three days. Three dark days of galactic cleaning by superior light brothers. Behind this apocalyptic resource is a depraved alien plan to start an invasion and supplant humankind leaders.
Into the Darkness
Director
Some new age UFO lovers groups have announced that the Earth will be without energy and sunlight for three days. Three dark days of galactic cleaning by superior light brothers. Behind this apocalyptic resource is a depraved alien plan to start an invasion and supplant humankind leaders.
Crowley's Ashes
Editor
After three years, the vampire Crowley resuscitates due to a series of sadistic rituals practised by three young women.
Crowley's Ashes
Director of Photography
After three years, the vampire Crowley resuscitates due to a series of sadistic rituals practised by three young women.
Crowley's Ashes
Crowley
After three years, the vampire Crowley resuscitates due to a series of sadistic rituals practised by three young women.
Crowley's Ashes
Writer
After three years, the vampire Crowley resuscitates due to a series of sadistic rituals practised by three young women.
Crowley's Ashes
Director
After three years, the vampire Crowley resuscitates due to a series of sadistic rituals practised by three young women.
Feather Cushion
Editor
A young woman buys a pillow from some gypsies. Upon awakening, she mysteriously feels her life is consuming. Nobody can cure her from the unknown illness that finally leads to her death.
Feather Cushion
Jordan
A young woman buys a pillow from some gypsies. Upon awakening, she mysteriously feels her life is consuming. Nobody can cure her from the unknown illness that finally leads to her death.
Feather Cushion
Writer
A young woman buys a pillow from some gypsies. Upon awakening, she mysteriously feels her life is consuming. Nobody can cure her from the unknown illness that finally leads to her death.
Feather Cushion
Director
A young woman buys a pillow from some gypsies. Upon awakening, she mysteriously feels her life is consuming. Nobody can cure her from the unknown illness that finally leads to her death.
Crowley
Producer
In a small, coastal colonial town, a clawed vampire rises from the ground near an old cemetery. He immediately attack couple. The bodies are found and then taken to a coroner's office, where the doctor does a thorough examination, not only discovering the girl has been completely drained dry but also that there are puncture wounds and traces of human saliva on her neck. He takes his findings to his police inspector friend. After another girl is attacked and killed in the same manner, the two men ponder whether the killer is a psycho who only fancies himself a vampire. Even more bloodless corpses turning up all over town and a funeral home reporting a coffin being stolen fail to convince them one way or another.
Crowley
Director
In a small, coastal colonial town, a clawed vampire rises from the ground near an old cemetery. He immediately attack couple. The bodies are found and then taken to a coroner's office, where the doctor does a thorough examination, not only discovering the girl has been completely drained dry but also that there are puncture wounds and traces of human saliva on her neck. He takes his findings to his police inspector friend. After another girl is attacked and killed in the same manner, the two men ponder whether the killer is a psycho who only fancies himself a vampire. Even more bloodless corpses turning up all over town and a funeral home reporting a coffin being stolen fail to convince them one way or another.
Crowley
Writer
In a small, coastal colonial town, a clawed vampire rises from the ground near an old cemetery. He immediately attack couple. The bodies are found and then taken to a coroner's office, where the doctor does a thorough examination, not only discovering the girl has been completely drained dry but also that there are puncture wounds and traces of human saliva on her neck. He takes his findings to his police inspector friend. After another girl is attacked and killed in the same manner, the two men ponder whether the killer is a psycho who only fancies himself a vampire. Even more bloodless corpses turning up all over town and a funeral home reporting a coffin being stolen fail to convince them one way or another.
Crowley
Crowley
In a small, coastal colonial town, a clawed vampire rises from the ground near an old cemetery. He immediately attack couple. The bodies are found and then taken to a coroner's office, where the doctor does a thorough examination, not only discovering the girl has been completely drained dry but also that there are puncture wounds and traces of human saliva on her neck. He takes his findings to his police inspector friend. After another girl is attacked and killed in the same manner, the two men ponder whether the killer is a psycho who only fancies himself a vampire. Even more bloodless corpses turning up all over town and a funeral home reporting a coffin being stolen fail to convince them one way or another.
Possession
Damian
A student of parapsychology goes to a small town to exorcised as possessed teenager.
Possession
Writer
A student of parapsychology goes to a small town to exorcised as possessed teenager.
Possession
Director
A student of parapsychology goes to a small town to exorcised as possessed teenager.