The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.
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The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.
Tomás, a birdwatcher and photographer, tries to give his career a push by taking an impossible photograph: an albino bird never seen outside captivity. To this end, he drags his wife and daughter to the Amazonian forest.
A thriller set in São Paulo Brazil, about a private security agent who starts to dream of his teeth falling. Somehow those dreams might be related to a string of mysterious deaths around him. Tormented by his dreams he sets on a journey to investigate, his life, his memory and his subconscious.
After years abroad due to his brother's murder, a renowned journalist returns to his family's home to take care of his mother, who suffers from an unknown illness. Late at night, he is visited by two strangers. As new events unfold, leading him to suspect that something ominous and deeply disturbing has struck his mother, a new tragedy rises.
Dario is a psychologist who has recently began taking child patients again, after going through a traumatic experience. His first patient is Sofia, a girl who makes others around her feel disturbing sensations.
At night, during a transfer, the inmates of a maximum-security prison escape and head towards a small town. The authorities ask the citizens to help capture the fugitives by any means necessary, offering a cash reward. Amidst the chaos, a young couple in crisis tries to stay alive.
2020 has its place in history as the year a virus stopped the entire planet. In its first months, amid quarantine and growing uncertainty about the future, Fantaspoa Film Festival launched a contest for filmmakers from around the world to create their pandemic-related stories—in their homes, with the resources they had at hand. This anthology brings together the 15 most representative and creative short films produced, capturing this moment in time that, if humanity is lucky, will never be repeated.
Toni has his mind set to the 70's, when he was the king of the dance floors and used to date Vera. Nowadays, lonely and disillusioned, he always visits the disco where he used to dance, now abandoned - until the day he is bound to face ghosts from the past.
Four bodies are found at a cave accident and forensics point to the only survivor as the culprit. He denies guilt, accusing his wife of committing the crime. But how is this so? She is one of the deceased.
When Tássila doesn’t fit in on Earth, her blood isn’t enough.
Clara is a restless woman who is on a hiatus in her relationship with Vivi. Clenched by passion, Clara is sucked into by Bento, a mysterious and obsessive being.
A resident of a ghetto’s neighborhood of São Paulo amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Gustavo has severe anxiety attacks. When he receives a call from a friend who lives in the same street, he reflects different stories of neighborhood residents in parallel with his family's daily life during social isolation.
The consequences of the lockdown during COVID-19, putting the minds of two beings in an apartment to the test.
Corrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they be cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.
Split into three chapters, "Cabrito" tells the story of a man haunted by his loved ones. The film begins with the story of his father and how the family became cannibal. The second part focuses on his mother and how she awakens the worst in her son with her twisted religiousness. The last part is focused on the main character's final catharsis, when he kidnaps his first love, Rosalita, and reproduces the inhuman bizarre caring to which he was subjected in his family relations.
A mysterious flower is left on the doorstep of a man who lives alone in a house far from the big city. That man just puts the strange flower inside the house and leaves for work. What he didn't expect is that each petal of that flower was the days of his life.
Ten months after the first case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the country is collapsing. After the death of his guardian, Jérôme the kitten, locked up and alone at home on Christmas Day, must take action to avoid running out of food.
Jorge is a private investigator that has a questionable character. He seeks information about the death of a young boy in a small city in the countryside of Brazil, that is full of unfriendly strangers. Nightmares with a woman that he has never seen before, Mariá, torments him. Their meeting, in a haunted woods, will reveal that it is not by chance that Jorge is part of this mysterious investigation.
A sinister stain appears on the wall and scares the lonely resident of that house. To her dismay, the stain has a human silhouette and, during the night, seems to leave the wall and walk through the house.
XIXth century brazilian countryside. After losing their daughter and granddaughter to smallpox, an elderly couple sees their faith rot.
In a fictitious country, the newly elected president and first lady are faced with supernatural powers that put their love to the test.
A pandemic took hold in the world and the confinement that once was already constant in Pedro's life made him even more alone. Tormented by the ghosts that in conscience he knew to be the sublimation of his pain, he needs to decide whether to face or succumb to the mambembe fate of the herd.
A priest and his guardian are on a mission trip, and while passing through the province of Eva, their journey is interrupted when they encounter a mysterious young man who is injured.
Two monster friends decide to follow different directions. Decades after leaving, Naiana is a high school teacher in a small coastal town, where a hotel under renovation emanates a strange presence. Three thousand kilometers away, the devouring night involves Diego.
After the death of his wife, Paul finds himself trapped in a world where the only connection established is by waves electromagnetic, murdering interpersonal relationships. Paul wants to break free from loneliness, until he finally meets Sofia.
A mother struggles trying to avoid her son of becoming insane like his deceased father, but maybe it's already too late.
In 2019 the Brazilian government released 290 new pesticides on the market, 18 of these pesticides are extremely toxic. "290 Venenos" is a short film that makes an exercise in critical reading about the excessive use of poisonous substances in our foods. It seeks to show the dangers and damages of pesticides.
While chaos reigns in the outside world, a woman maintains peace by tending a small vegetable garden, until she receives a strange order from distant lands.
During a rainy day, inside a cavern in the middle of the woods, the Boogeyman prepares a potion, but finds out an ingredient missing.
Wandering through a dead city, Angelique is stricken with visions and gets to know the story of a cruel vampiress who does not know love, of a ritual that imprisons Satan worshipers in a death cycle, of a witch looking for the perfect recipe and of a passion that survives beyond the grave. In Angelique's ears, only the music of the gothic inflows - no voice can rise above it.
With the arrival of an uncle, Barbara, an independent young woman, sees her life plunge into a veiled torment.
Isabel ritually invokes dark forces to keep herself the prettiest and disfigure anyone who threatens her superiority. A date becomes a bloody feast. Moved by, Isabel poisons a friend and makes her whole body burn. These are just some of Isabel's victims on this self-centered journey.
When late at night Paulo receives a visit from a stranger asking for help, a suspense begins with pain, suffering and a mark that can never be removed. The stranger enters the family and brings to light secrets that should never have been unearthed.
João Neves travels to the city of São Marcos, to take a magic course, and stays at his cousin Danilo's apartment. The latter, however, has no patience for João and leaves him alone in the apartment, in which he remains only with himself... And his deck.
Tony and his friends will go on a journey into the depths of hell, with horrible creatures and crazy nightmares that will put their lives at constant risk.
A girl tries a new feature on her iPhone, but something hidden in the dark places of her bedroom wanna try it too.
Cellphones have become an extension of the human being. They store memories, commitments and secrets. Some might say that the energy swap with said object goes beyond our material plane of existence.
On a Christmas night, two children decide to play with an Ouija board. Christmas is time to celebrate life, spread love and sow hope. So it is good to be close to those we love, even if they are no longer with us.
Erica tries to distract herself in front of the computer after discovering the death of her sister. She is isolated in the middle of quarantine from a deadly virus until she receives a call.
Two young couples want to celebrate New Year's Eve, but they'll only encounter fear and anguish in the form of a masked man.
Pipes sing and cracks spy. Where to go if inside is as dangerous as outside?
The crimes on Rua do Arvoredo is a true episode, which occurred between 1863 and 1864, in the city of Porto Alegre, capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The unusual practice of crimes was done in the following way: the accused attracted victims to kill them and disposed of body parts by producing human meat sausages to be sold in a butcher shop in the city.
Every night, she tries to escape from her nightmares, but keep the eyes open doesn't mean being awake.
Filipe Ramos unravels the story of the game Pathologic 2, exploring the intricate interactions between the world, its characters, and the player. Throughout the analysis, he reveals how each choice and action taken by the player reverberates through the narrative and the functioning of that universe, constantly transforming the experience and revealing the complexity of a living world.
On a rainy afternoon, an absence haunts a father's life.
A man decides to contradict an old legend of his grandmother.
A boy goes to sleep, but there's a monster under his bed.