安娜·帕克(凯特·法兰奇 Kate French 饰)是一个美丽的女作家,当下她正为新书做最后的冲刺,可是担任出版编辑的男友保罗·瓦格纳(史蒂文·布兰德 Steve Brand 饰)却提出了较为尖刻的修改意见。心情颇有些低落的安娜找不到灵感,创作陷入僵局。为了帮她完成工作,保罗将安娜带到一处位于沙漠中央的别墅进行创作,不过他突然有事离开,只留下安娜和一条狗。到了夜晚,安娜惊讶地发现有一个恐怖的人逡巡在别墅附近。她尝试着向保罗求助,然而无法得到有效回应。
2012-3-2,一组奇怪的数字,让安娜陷入前所未有的恐惧之中。而在无尽的恐慌中,她终于发现了可怕的秘密……
Fleeing from their violent father, siblings Luci?a and Adria?n take refuge in a remote mansion. With the help of a hidden micro-camera on a cat, Luci?a uncovers a terrifying secret: their neighbors are part of a criminal network that kidnaps teenage girls to make snuff films, and they intend to get rid of the siblings. As Lucía fights to protect her brother, she must face a dark family curse that follows them into their newfound sanctuary.
When, at the beginning of Deus Irae, Father Javier stares at a crucifix, his expressions and his hands suggest that the nerves are consuming him. A flashback reveals that this priest devotes his life to visiting families that claim to have seen things that do not belong to this world and cleansing their homes from the demons that try to possess them. But, upon returning to those houses, he notices that the evidence is always destroyed. This way, he discovers that a clan is after him, and must decide whether to hide from them or join them. In times when horror cinema tends to fall into the hands of directors that seek to build narratives that are introspective and close to reality, Pedro Cristiani goes back to old-school horror, where gore and the physical experience are above any other kind of feeling. A cinema that places the camera in front of the faces of the bloodiest demons and, instead of giving logic to them, chooses to face them whatever the cost.
Didier Konings’ simmering mediaeval horror Witte Wieven explores the confluence of religion and patriarchy in an excessively puritanical Dutch village. Blamed by her community for being childless, Frieda immerses herself in prayer and ritual. When she returns unscathed from the forbidden forest surrounding the village, having evaded a lecherous butcher, she is condemned as an agent of the devil. Frieda, however, finds new faith in the dark powers that inhabit the woods.
Shot in a reduced colour palette at the edge of visibility, Konings’ gripping film constructs a convincing pre-modern society whose practices it elucidates with patience and attention. Although set in the Middle Ages, Witte Wieven displays an unmistakably contemporary spirit, crafting a feminist parable about women discovering new ways of understanding their lives and the world.