Interview: Efren Ramirez on Playing a Shakespearean Zombie in Seven Cemeteries By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Seven Cemeteries star Efren Ramirez about the . Ramirez discussed what drew him to the film, working with Danny Trejo, and more. Quiver Distribution will release the film in theaters, on digital, and on demand on October 11, 2024.
“A recent parolee (Danny Trejo) gets a Mexican witch to resurrect his old posse so that they can help him save a woman’s ranch from a ruthless drug lord,” says the synopsis for Seven Cemeteries. : I think it’s his funny way of looking at life even after he’s gone. Sometimes, even people, in general, being alive sometimes can feel dead inside because they feel like they haven’t achieved something or something has broken their hearts to the point where there’s a sense of stagnation.
In this case, with Miguel, he wasn’t ready to die. Somehow he’s been cheated. In one of the scenes, it’s revealed who killed him and how he died, but there was a little glimpse to that, and in the script, if I remember.
I’m enamored by Shakespeare and the characters that Shakespeare has created. So, Miguel kind of reminded me of Romeo and Hamlet, where he is very ambitious but driven by love. In this case it’s my love for the bruja, my love for my wife, the witch.
Because she’s just as strong and as ambitious as their love is. I thought like, hey, this is truly as funny as it seems. As much of a horror film as this is .
