Carnival of Souls (1962)
Deadly Theremin
A car crash and a new beginning. Carnival of Souls depicts the solitude of provincial living in the southwest United States in the 1960s from the perspective of a woman who also works as a church organ player. Despite her efforts to live a normal life, she is haunted by a ghostly presence that leads her into learning wild secrets about her own existence. This is my season finale, an incredibly interesting series of plot twist coming from many levels fading in and out in style between scenes. The episode contains huge spoilers so I recommend you watch it first. R.I.P.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
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After an year-long hybernation period, I have returned from the darkness bringing you Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a film that flatens many existences and realms once separated by the restrictions of time, space, and societal norms. A beautiful visual rendering of a book from 1983 called A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Buddhist abbot Phra Sripariyattiwet. A terminal illness thins out otherwise physical barriers of existence as Boonmee navigates through past lives to find reason and understanding.
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The Phantom Carriage (1921)
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Legend goes that the last person to die on New Years' Eve becomes the Coachman in charge of collecting the souls of the dead until someone else takes their place in this nefarious task. The Phantom Carriage is a silent-film from what is known as the Golden Era of Swedish cinema. Directer and Starred by Victor Sjostrom, this classic is a masterclass in special effects and spectral superimposition with the most beautiful soundtrack by Matti Bye.
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His House (2020)
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It's hard to believe this was Remi Week's debut film. His House blurrs the lines of real horror with traditional elements of fictional horror, bringing together an incredibly deep approach to the dichotomic commitments regarding the cultural memory of war refugees. It's delicate, and monstrous simultaneously. You can't miss this.
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Ringu (1998)
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Directed by Hideo Nakata, the J-horror masterpiece Ringu was based on a book released a few years earlier and it tells the tale of the vengeful spirit of a child that comes out of the screen to kill you if you watch their Stan Brakhagesque cursed tape! Sadako's aesthetic has become an universal pop culture symbol for fear and the deadly presence of beings from the aftelife in relation to elements familiar to us and present in our daily lives, such as TV devices -- and VHS tapes.
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The Shining (1980)
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A new season begins in this Deadly Theremin with one of the most famous films of the horror genre. Directed by Stanley Kubrik and based on a novel with the same name written by Stephen King, The Shining touches classic themes that frightens, in a suspense-building-but-also-already-kind-of-there atmosphere, different generations since its first release. It speaks directly to our most primal fears in a brutal fashion (yes, I am thinking about the elevator of blood).
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Bacurau (2019)
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Convidei meus grandes amigos de longa data para analisar Bacurau do Kleber Mendonça Filho e Juliano Dornelles. Um filme que vai abordar todos os esqueletos no armário da sociedade brasileira usando a lingua franca dos westerns estado-unidenses, violência e uma trilha sonora incrível.
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La Casa Lobo (2017)
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La casa lobo é um stop-motion de terror chileno que faz alusão aos contos de fadas dos irmãos Grimm, produzido ao longo de cinco anos e contando a narrativa de um membro de uma colonia-seita alemã que ainda existe no Chile, entrou pra lista de melhores filmes que eu já assisti.v
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Aterrados (2017)
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Dirigido por Damien Rugna, que também é o guitarrista da banda Pasco 637 da Argentina, Aterrados é um daqueles filmes que você termina de assistir e tenta lembrar qual foi a última vez que um longa de ficção te fez sentir tanto medo assim.
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La Llorona (2019)
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Dirigido pelo diretor guatemalteca Jayro Bustamante, esse filme vai se utilizar da lingua franca do terror-ficção-folclore pra abordar o terror-real sofrido por milhares de povos indígenas durante a ditadura militar na Guatemala na segunda metade do século XX.
info_outlineThe jewel of Mexican Horror, Santa Sangre explores Life and Death using Symbolism to the bone . It's the story of the child magician Fenix and his way to adulthood while dealing with traumas, imaginary snakes and an armless bloodthirst vengeful mother devout to a strange cult that worships Santa Sangre. It's a full experience, you will want to look away, look closer, laugh, cry, and get a little scared - or least minimaly grossed out- by the gory deaths.
Jodorowsky is one of my favorite directors, so consider this my offering to the Winter Solstice.
R.I.P