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),…
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…