The Festival de Cine Fantástico de Canarias Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera, which will celebrate its eighth edition from November 8 to 17, recovers the action and adventure classic 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' on the big screen. The event will take place this Friday, June 21, at Multicines Tenerife, as part of a pre-festival event to warm up the engines four and a half months before the great annual meeting around fantastic cinema.

The second episode of the Indiana Jones saga is a prequel to the first installment, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' from 1981. Directed by Steven Spielberg, under the production of George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Robert Watts after the success of the original, it took the character played by Harrison Ford to a new, more violent adventure with supernatural elements.

Set in the mid-1930s, it takes the intrepid archaeologist, along with his assistant Tapon, a Vietnamese boy, and Willie Scott, an American singer, from Shanghai to northern India, where the inhabitants of a small village ask for his help in rescuing their kidnapped children and finding a sacred stone that has been taken from them. In the course of their mission, they will encounter a secret cult led by the ruthless Mola Ram, who practices black magic and rituals involving human sacrifice in honor of his goddess Kali.

Dennis Muren and the visual effects department at Industrial Light & Magic won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for their work on this film, which earned another Academy Award nomination for the film's music, composed by John Williams.

After the screening of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom', which will start at 7 p.m., in original version with Spanish subtitles, there will be a discussion about the film and some details of the program planned for November, which will commemorate the 70th anniversary of Godzilla and the science fiction subgenre of giant monsters known as Kaiju.

Film series in collaboration with the ULL

The screening of 'Indiana Jones and the Cursed Temple' is part of a series of classic adventure films organized this June in collaboration with the Film Classroom of the University of La Laguna, which will conclude on Saturday, June 29, with a morning session dedicated to 'Tarzan of the Apes' (1932). Based on the novel of the same name by Edgar Rice Burroughs and directed by W. S. Van Dyke, it features Johnny Weissmüller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith and Maureen O'Sullivan in the main cast.

About the Festival de Cine Fantástico de Canarias Isla Calavera (Skull Island Fantastic Film Festival of the Canary Islands)

Organized by the Cultural Association Charlas de Cine, the Cultural Association Isla Calavera, Multicines Tenerife and the specialized publication TumbaAbierta.com, this eighth edition is sponsored by the City Council of La Laguna, through the Department of Culture, the Cabildo of Tenerife, Promotur, Canary Islands Tourism, Canary Islands Latitud de Vida, Canarias avanza con Europa; the Canary Islands Institute of Cultural Development, Canary Islands Film and Tenerife Film Commission; and the collaboration of the University of La Laguna, La Laguna Zona Comercial, Zulay Panaderías, Playmedusa Videojuegos, Grupo Fly Luxury, Juan Antonio Ribas Subtítulos y Ediciones Digitales, Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Tacoronte-Acentejo, Mercado Nuestra Señora de África, Cinedfest, Fimucité, CinemaNext, Iro Pictures, Flaming Frames, Teatro Leal, José Acosta Style, Coca-Cola, Royal Bliss and Audi Canarias. Fundación Diario de Avisos, Televisión Canaria and Canarias Radio participate as media partners.

The Festival de Cine Fantástico de Canarias Ciudad de La Laguna Isla Calavera was born in 2017 and in its seven years of trajectory it has achieved an important worldwide repercussion.

In the international arena it has become one of the events to be reckoned with, thanks to the participation of such important figures as John Landis, Joe Dante, Sam J. Jones, Deborah Nadoolman, Sarah Douglas, Rick Baker, Caroline Munro, David Naughton, Enzo G. Castellari, Mick Garris, Neil Marshall, Charlotte Kirk, Nicholas Rowe, Colin Arthur, Jack Taylor and Hollywood stars Amber Heard and Eduardo Noriega, who presented their film 'In the fire' at the national premiere at Isla Calavera.

Other guests who have visited Tenerife as part of the Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival and who have put the event on the map of film meetings are Belén Rueda, Álex de la Iglesia, Manuela Velasco, F. Javier Gutiérrez, Víctor Clavijo, Silvia Tortosa, Paco Plaza, Carolina Bang, Paco Cabezas, Víctor Matellano, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Eugenio Mira and Lola Dueñas, among others.