The Show first published by VODzilla.co Mitch Jenkins’ The Show begins with a view of Planet Earth from outer space, before zooming in to the centre of England, and finally descending upon a puddle by a motorway from which the title is seen emerging as a car passes. It is an apt introduction to a…
The Cemetery of Lost Souls (O Cemitério das Almas Perdidas) opens with a text dedication to José Mojica Marins, who died in February 2020. Marins made Brazil’s first ever horror film, At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964) which, along with This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967) and the belated Embodiment of Evil (2008),…
Satanic Panic (2019) at Fantasia and FrightFest 2019 22-year-old Sam (Hayley Griffith) is on her first day working for Home Run Pizza. She is a virgin adept at fending off unwanted male advances (like from her hilariously odious colleague Duncan, played by AJ Bowen), a part-time busker specialising in self-penned folk songs of dubious quality,…
The opening shot in Rodrigo Aragão’s A Mata Negra (aka The Black Forest) is of a stone church atop a rocky outcrop, overlooking the forest below. There humble herbalist Pai Pedro (Markus Konka) finds an abandoned girl, and takes her in as his own. Years later, foundling Clara (Carol Aragão) is a good-natured, naïve teenager…