{"id":3611,"date":"2026-01-18T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:25:38","slug":"the-return-of-the-lifeblood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Lifeblood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: Horror &#8211; Featurette<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Assassin is cursed by the souls of the people he killed in the past. Now, he is a Grim Reaper, a demon who receives constant punishments because of his sins. In this context, an Entity appears, a neutral being who oversees the Assassin\u2019s curse. Consequently, and on a journey to hell, both characters confront each other in a philosophical-moral debate about the meaning of forgiveness, the prison of guilt, and the existence of redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Director(s): <span class=\"text-bold\">Arnold Sotomayor \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Writer(s): <span class=\"text-bold\">Arnold Sotomayor<\/span><br \/>\nProducer(s): <span class=\"text-bold\">Arnold Sotomayor, Domenica Granados, Sergio Monch\u00f3n<\/span><br \/>\nKey Cast: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Carlos Licapa, Adam Gonzales<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country: <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Peru<\/span><br \/>\nSouth American Premiere<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3696\" src=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Return-of-the-Lifeblood-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/2026-fi-lima\/2026-official-selections-fi-lima\/\">Return to 2026 Official Selections \u2013 Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: FILA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: Horror &#8211; Featurette An Assassin is cursed by the souls of the people he killed in the past. Now, he is a Grim Reaper, a demon who receives constant punishments because of his sins. In this context, an Entity appears, a neutral being who oversees the Assassin\u2019s curse. Consequently, and on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3611\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Return of the Lifeblood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-invasion-l-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}