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Inquilinos

2018 film by Chava Cartas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ77895113
Source-derived summary

Inquilinos is a 2018 Mexican horror film directed by Chava Cartas, from a screenplay by Juan Carlos Garzón and Angélica Gudiño. The plot revolves around Luzma (Danny Perea) and Demián (Erick Elías), a young couple, who have just moved to an old neighborhood to leave behind an incident that torments them. However, Luzma begins to discover that her neighbors hide terrible secrets that lead to paranormal phenomena. The film is based on real events and was filmed in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“Inquilinos” enters the record as 2018 film by Chava Cartas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Inquilinos, film and Chava can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2018-11-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Inquilinos, film and Chava.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q77895113. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Inquilinos” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.