The Muppet-Face

Ricardo Machado

“This event gave rise to the portuguese perverse murderer known as the Muppet-Face, a psychological descent to his sick and perfidious motivation.”

Festival selections:

2022
MOTELx Festival Internacional de Terror de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
Make Art Not Fear (Porto, Portugal)
Curtas Festival do Imaxinario – Official Competition (Galiza, Spain)
Nalgas Film Festival (Porto, Portugal)
Caminhos Film Festival – secção Turno da Noite (Coimbra, Portugal)

2023
Bizarrya Short Film Festival (Porto, Portugal)
Shock Stock Horror & Underground Film Festival (London, UK)
The Grave Plot Film Fest (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Horror Unleashed (Porto, Portugal)
Madeira Fantastic FilmFest (Funchal, Portugal)
C. International Movies in Sueca (Valencia, Spain)
Stuff Mx Film Festival (Mexico City, Mexico)
Perth Horror Film Festival (Karawara, Perth, Australia)
Lit Scares International Horror Festival (Harrogate, UK)

Ficha Técnica

Direction: Ricardo Machado

Script: Ricardo Machado, Tiago Mendes

Cinematography: Carlos Sequeira

Edition: Tiago Inuit, Fernando Alle

Visual effects: Tiago Borrões, Miguel V. Santos

Grading: Nuno Garcia

Final credits: André Santos

Art direction: Filipa Costa

Original Music: The Year

Camera operator: Daniel Louro

Sound direction: José Pedro Alfaiate

Sound edition: Tiago Inuit

Image assistant: Bruno da Palma-Veríssimo

Make-up: Sara Rocha

Cast direction: Joana Chandelier

Cast:
Rúben Dias
Nuno Vinagre
Rute Miranda
Erica Rodrigues

Production: Ricardo Machado, Rita Lima

Executive production: Ricardo Machado