Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min · 4 segments
Cine Geek sits down with director **Mike P. Nelson** (*Silent Night, Deadly Night*, *V/H/S/85*) to talk about his new Amazon creature feature, **BEWARE BOIÚNA**. Nelson opens up about the special…
Mike P. NelsonGuest
Mark NievesHost
Yeah, we went to this special building that was kind of made out of sticks and leaves.
And we all sat there and, you know, this healer, this guy, this indigenous man who, it's his people's part of the jungle that we were shooting in.
they had to give us permission to shoot there and they were aware of the story we were telling and obviously you go into a situation like that and you're like This is a giant snake movie like are they gonna like are they gonna be cool with this and what was really cool was They were they they knew the story.
They knew what we were trying to say in it they knew what we were trying to do with the characters and of course we set it on a backdrop of of Their story which is like, you know the Amazon and with the gold mining that's going on.
And they knew they felt like it was really important to tell and show that side of of of of what they're going through.
He He had taken ayahuasca prior and he was saying these incredible things and he basically told me after kind of brushing my head with corn husks and he spit this incredibly smelling stuff into my hair and rubbed it and like touched my face and like my shoulders and it was insane.
And I'll never forget what he told one of our executives or our line producer, Bernard.
And of course we all cracked up at that because Bernard, he's such a smart man and he would lead the money and how we get things done.
And it was such an awakening to hear that and to know that that was now all of our jobs to go off and do this.
Yeah, we went to this special building that was kind of made out of sticks and leaves.
And we all sat there and, you know, this healer, this guy, this indigenous man who, it's his people's part of the jungle that we were shooting in.
they had to give us permission to shoot there and they were aware of the story we were telling and obviously you go into a situation like that and you're like This is a giant snake movie like are they gonna like are they gonna be cool with this and what was really cool was They were they they knew the story.
They knew what we were trying to say in it they knew what we were trying to do with the characters and of course we set it on a backdrop of of Their story which is like, you know the Amazon and with the gold mining that's going on.
And they knew they felt like it was really important to tell and show that side of of of of what they're going through.
He He had taken ayahuasca prior and he was saying these incredible things and he basically told me after kind of brushing my head with corn husks and he spit this incredibly smelling stuff into my hair and rubbed it and like touched my face and like my shoulders and it was insane.
And I'll never forget what he told one of our executives or our line producer, Bernard.
And of course we all cracked up at that because Bernard, he's such a smart man and he would lead the money and how we get things done.
And it was such an awakening to hear that and to know that that was now all of our jobs to go off and do this.
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