When a group of friends learn how to attract souls with the help of an embalmed hand, they are plunged into new horror until one of them goes too far and unleashes dangerous supernatural powers.
On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.
A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
During World War II, the only black unit of the U.S. Women’s Army Corps stationed overseas takes on an impossible mission in Tyler Perry’s drama based on a true story.
Brazil, 1971: a country under the influence of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an arbitrary act of violence. Based on the best-selling memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva.
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost…
Academy Award® nominee Sylvester Stallone, Scott Eastwood, Mike Colter, and Willa Fitzgerald star in this explosive action-thriller about two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network that will stop at nothing to obtain a critical asset. Joe (Scott Eastwood) and Lara (Willa Fitzgerald) are agents living off the grid whose quiet retreat at a winter resort is blown to shreds when members of the old guard suspect the two may have joined an elite team of rogue spies, known as ALARUM .
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and a terrifying vampire who has fallen in love with her, causing unspeakable terror. The exterior scenes of Orlok’s castle were filmed at Hunedoara Castle, also known as Corvin Castle, a Romanian castle located in Transylvania and one of the largest surviving medieval castles in Europe. Furthermore, it was in this castle that Vlad Dracula was briefly imprisoned. Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz: Here we meet the undead plague carrier… the vampire… Nosferatu.. Appears in H-Cast: Death Threats, Nosferatu Christmas, Doctor Who Death & MORE! H-Cast S3 EP 143 (2024)
A tense, creepy, melancholic, suffocating fantasy thriller with hints of a ghost story
Narrative
It follows a child named Emma on her journey to learn how to communicate with the spirit of a girl named Uxoa, who has been trapped in a hermit cat for centuries, and so she tries to enlist Carol, a skeptical medium, to help her. A supernatural thriller full of terrifying action, suspense, chills and plenty of scares; Some of it is confusing and inexplicable, the reason for some of the spooky events is never well explained. The film depicts a fictional story about the social reality that plagues a small town. It begins with a seemingly historical prologue discussing the plague, the chapel where the sick were walled up, and the Beak Regiment, but it eventually becomes a theatrical event as part of the small town’s annual festival when the chapel is haunted.
Little Usoa is open for a short spell
It follows a child, Emma (Maia Zaitegi), on her journey to learn how to communicate with the spirit of Uxo, a girl trapped in a hermitage for centuries, and so she tries to convince Carol (Belén Rueda), a skeptical and fake medium, to help her. She literally carries the scars of a childhood when her perhaps truly average mother seemed more interested in the local godmother of a little girl than her own daughter. This is a valid and acceptable film with a number of not always sympathetic, deeply human and like-minded protagonists. This is a ghost film that has a disturbing horror and a dark atmosphere when menacing creatures appear.
A suspenseful, mysterious film full of suspense, tension, chills, red herrings, scary twists
Step by step, the mystery begins to unravel until a surprising conclusion that results in a sentimental, witty story with a serious, brooding undertone in the environment of “The Orphanage” or “Pan’s Labyrinth”, but with its own female focus. It is a gripping drama whose interest decreases as its tediously creepy elements accumulate. Although ¨Cerdita¨ focuses on pure horror in ¨La Ermita¨, many things confirm that Pereda is a key figure in the contemporary horror and fantasy genre. One of them is his entry into genre cinema in the first place: he bets on fantasy without hesitation and adds personal drama.
In fact, Belén Rueda is a Spanish horror heroine or “
As the footage progresses, he gets lost, which prevents us from talking about gems like ‘Cerdita' elements of Spanish horror, although he certainly does not make horror. It turns out to be an adequate and decent film, but not remarkable. Belén Rueda seems ordinary in her style, she is an expert in mystery and horror films such as: Julie’s Eyes, The Orphanage, No dormirás, Durante la tormenta, The Pact, Orbita 9 and The Body. Scream Queen”, fits well with Maia Zaitegova, who reminds me of a young Ana Torrent in Cria Cuervos or El Espiritu de la Colmena (The Beehive).
The film was professionally directed by Carlota Pereda, who is clearly a talented writer and filmmaker
It won the 2023: Sitges Film Festival: Official Feature Film Section (out of competition) and the 2023: Goya Awards (Spain): Nomination for Best Special Effects. His first film was the much better film ¨Cerdita¨, based on Carlota Pereda’s own Goya Award winner for Best Short Film of the same name, winner of the Goya Award for Best Short Film in 2018 and starring Laura Galán. Rating: 5.5/10.
