Deadly Theremin

You can watch the full documentary on YouTube here . It is a short story of a real life werewolf told by the inhabitants of this small village in Romenia. Gratian receives food and clothing from the villagers, so that when he turns into a werewolf, he doesn't go after people's sheep.  Much beyond the subject in question itself, this episode draws attention to documentary film as a genre, and how t...

Released in the Sundance Film Festival in the cursed year of 2020 as Eight for Silver, The Cursed is a 19th-century victorian gothic folk horror featuring a familiar monster as an allegory for dwelling identities within the same body: the civilized human and the bestial monster. Desaturated color pallettes and muted, modest garments set the tone for foggy gray skies by day, and nightmares inhabite...

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 int...

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 Sripariy...

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 w...

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. 

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...

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 i...

A season finale não podia terminar em melhor companhia. 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.

Simplesmente sensacional! Esse 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. Os diretores conseguiram criar uma experiência imersiva a partir do rompimento com as barreiras entre figura...

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. Definitivamente recomendo assistir com alguém do seu lado. A narrativa segue uma linha de suspense investigativo até o por-do-sol, e depois é só atividade malig...

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. Essa narrativa envolve fantasmas de vítimas do Holocausto Silencioso buscando vingança sob a forma de uma das lendas folclóricas mais antig...

I hope my non-Brazilian fans will forgive me, but this season will be a Brazilian Version, Herbert Richards.   Lançado em 1967 e dirigido, produzido, editado e protagonizado por José Mojica Marins, Esta Noite Reencanarei no Teu Cadáver traz vários elementos contemporâneos e técnicas impressionantes de efeitos especiais para o cenário nacional. É a sequencia do primeiro longa do Mojica Marins e con...

A missing girl in a strange Scottish village, with uncomfortably happy folk songs, naked dancing and rituals, The Wicker Man is one of those classic films that you can't stop thinking about. It's an extremely unsettling murder mystery with amazing plot twists and a breathtaking climax. This bonus episode was an amazing recommendation from a friend, and I analyzed while having a Guinness, just like...

Four Londoner men decide to go on a hike in memoriam of their friend in Sweden. What could go wrong, you think? Ancient woods are a commonplace for Ancient pagan religions, their followers, and sometimes even the bloodthirsty gods they worship. The cinematography will remind of The Blair Witch Project (which I previously analyzed), and the god behaves like the Lovecraftian Shub-Niggurath taking sa...

[SPOILER ALERT] Loosely based on a Stephen King's novel with the same name, Children of the Corn explores a corn-god cult led and worshiped by cute little murderous children from the countryside of the United States. This low-budget feature draws a parallel between religious fanaticism, with hints of the Old Testament and some corn farming. The first one gives no room for a sequel, but they just k...

The 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 s...

Released in 2018 by studio A24, Hereditary invites you to discover what's behind a series of strange dark events that surround the Graham Family and their History of secrecy, death and madness. The atmosphere is very unsettling and you will most definetely hold your breath for the remaining 10 minutes of the movie. The director Ari Aster mentions in an interview that despite the suffering present...

This is not my average alone-in-the-dark episode. The idea was to debut season 2 by simulating those weird conversations you wanna eavesdrop at a dive bar after work between two old friends. So grab a beer, and pretend Lloyd's polishing glasses in front of you. [SPOILER ALERT] Mandy was released in 2018 and it has one of the most beautiful color palettes I've ever seen in a gore movie. Directed by...

[SPOILER ALERT] A season finale asks for Italian horror. Directed by Mario Bava, Black Sunday is a classic referenced by directors such as Coppola and Tim Burton.  A vampire witch princess is murdered by her own brother and swears revenge upon him and all future generations.  There's an usual number of gruesome deaths for 1960, making this a movie difficult to find (It was prohibited in the UK unt...

The first and most successful case of viral marketing online, the Blair Witch Project debuted the found footage era in the horror genre. Everyone knows what happens to these three film college students who go missing into the woods of Burkitsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary on the Legend of the Blair Witch back in 1994. A $60,000 budget that raised $248,000,000 in the box office became...

[SPOILER ALERT] The director decided to leave the main character's identity anonymous (Jane Doe), so I took the liberty to refer to the assistant characters of Brian Cox (Martin) and Emile Hirsch (Austin)equally nameless as Dad and Son. A truly horrifying one-room movie set in a morgue, this family of coroners tries to determine the mortis causa of our Jane Doe. A three century long trail of bodie...

[SPOILER ALERT] Allow me to introduce you to the confused and terrifying life of the first settlers of the New World through this New England folktale set in 1640. We follow a family of colonists attempting to endure and overcome the Wilderness, who ends up consuming them. With a dark and agonizing atmosphere, bumped by an original and excruciating soundtrack, you will need to bring some liquid co...

[SPOILER ALERT] Director Dario Argento's masterpiece, Suspiria, stands as one of the most beautiful horror films ever made. A somber, yet whimsical fairy tale narrative with notes of gore and mystery, this movie was groundbreaking in terms of production, special effects and original soundtrack.  Unfortunately this is only available on Tubi, but you can always download/rent it before listening to t...