The sixth edition of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival starts tomorrow. Here is a quick look at some of the highlights.
GOOD MADAM (Mlungu Wam) South Africa 2021 is the opening night film. This premiere gives New York City audiences their first opportunity to see director Jenna Cato Bass' fourth feature film. A film Variety calls, "A quiet, tightly wound horror film". Good Madam is a very effective story with great resonance of South Africa's master and servant culture.
EARWIG United Kingdom, France, Belgium 2021 Earwig is the Centerpiece film of the festival. Directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović (Evolution, Innocence) and written by Geoff Cox based on the novel by Brian Catling. Lucile said prior to the film, “I’d like you to be hypnotized by the film.” Towards that end, she succeeds. Here is my full review.
THE SADNESS Taiwan 2021 I am very much looking forward to seeing Rob Jabbaz. Here is what the organizers of the Brooklyn Horror fest have to say, "With The Sadness,
director Rob Jabbaz takes a blood-and-puss-filled syringe to the zombie
genre, injecting it with relentless visions of murderous carnage and
sexual savagery. You’ve been warned." I might have to get that booster vaccine shot before watching this one.
AFTER BLUE France | 2021 Director Bertrand Mandico created the Incoherence Manifesto in 2012 with fellow filmmaker Katrin Olafsdotir. Bertrand states, "To be incoherent means to have faith in cinema, it means to have a romantic approach, unformatted, free, disturbed and dreamlike, cinegenic, an epic narration." I had this to say about the movie, "After Blue is the direct descendant of Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo. After Blue is the child of David Pelham's 1970s sci-fi, paperback covers. It is also to say Bertrand Mandico's film is midnight madness." You can read my full review here.
EGO Spain 2021 The festival presents the world premiere of director Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas new film Ego. The film arrives in Brooklyn with a very intriguing premise. "Ego decides to access a dating website with people of the same sex. His surprise is capitalized when he finds an advertisement for a girl exactly like her that threatens to impersonate her and erase her identity forever." - IMDB
THE FEAST United Kingdom 2021 There has been a running theme in horror films I have seen this year. There have been a lot of pivotal scenes around dinner tables which I find fascinating during these pandemic years as most of us have kept our distance from one another. The Feast directed by Lee Haven Jones and written by Roger Williams centers the film around a dinner. To say more would ruin the film. Bon Appetite!
THE LAST THING MARY SAW USA 2021 A strong feature film debut from director and writer Edoardo Vitaletti. A great slow burn horror movie. During a cold winter in the 1800s, a young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy. Scary stuff!
LUX AETERNA France 2019 A film by Gaspar Noé need I say more...okay I'll also say this...a film with Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg playing themselves in a movie about making a movie. Sold!
NELLY RAPP Sweden 2021 The programmers of the Brooklyn Film Festival say this about Amanda Adolfsson's film, "Nelly isn’t like the other kids in her middle school class. To start, she’s a horror junkie, unlike most of her friends, but taking things even further into the abnormal, her family has a long history of keeping people safe from vampires, zombies and other ghouls. As the young Nelly excitedly tries to carry on tradition she’s forced to come of age in the wildest of ways. A charming horror-comedy that’s both hilarious and heartfelt, Amanda Adolfsson’s family-friendly gem winks at genre touchstones like Universal Monsters while still forming its own delightfully playful identity. It’s monster-heavy fun for all ages."
NIGHT TEETH USA 2021 Another world premiere film! The movie marks the second feature from Adam Randall (I See You). A young driver picks up two mysterious women for a night of party hopping. But when his passengers reveal their true nature, he must fight to stay alive. The film looks great and is bolstered by some great performances.
WHAT JOSIAH SAW USA 2021 A family reunites at a farmhouse and deep, dark buried secrets are revealed in the film by Vincent Grashaw. Based on a strong screenplay by Robert Alan Dilts. What Josiah Saw also features an eclectic cast, Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze, Kelli Garner, Tony Hale...defiantly a film to check out.
WHEN I CONSUME YOU USA 2021 The Brooklyn Film Festival says this about Perry Blackshear's film, "Wilson Shaw (Evan Dumouchel) and his sister Daphne (Libby Ewing) have suffered through disappointment after disappointment for their entire lives. Only during the final throes of their misery do they discover a malevolent entity has been behind their misfortune all along, and the siblings set out to eradicate it from their bloodline once and for all. With his third feature, following the acclaimed They Look Like People and The Siren (BHFF 2018 Closing Night), Perry Blackshear gathers the same great core acting trio of his previous films plus the excellent Ewing to tell his darkest story yet— one of fierce love and loyalty in the face of ultimate evil."
Here is the full schedule and how to get tickets
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