刚刚参加完朋友婚礼的年轻夫妇詹姆斯(斯科特·斯比德曼 Scott Speedman 饰)和妻子克里斯汀(丽芙·泰勒 Liv Tyler 饰)酒意微醺的离开了晚宴。本已疲惫不堪的二人,却在回家的途中遭遇事故,两人不得已在陌生的环境下停车,去周边寻求救援。两人在误打误撞下,意外地进入了一座废弃的度假别墅,索性休整一晚。 夜色渐深,黑暗袭来。詹姆斯和克里斯汀的厄运从此开始。入夜,三个戴着面具的入侵者突然出现在房子周围,向他们发起了连续袭击。面对死亡的威胁,夫妇在强烈的求生意志下,开始了殊死抗争。被困在屋内的二人,随即陷入了这场血腥暴力的生死之战。
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.