O Cemitério das Almas Perdidas

After finding Kriya (2020-also reviewed) to be welcomed surprising film,I decided to check what else was being streamed at the Abertoir Horror Festival. With my pick of the last stream the day before having gone so well, I choose to do the same a second time,and enter the cemetery.

Note:This review contains plot details.

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Entering the cemetery to a opening dedication to film maker Coffin Joe/ Jose Mojica Marins, writer/director Rodrigo Aragao & cinematographer Alexandre Barcelos dig their nails into Brazilian Horror with gloriously decadent splatter effects,as the Jesuit and his blood-thirsty followers paint the screen red with practical effect head smashing spewing crimson.

Locking the Jesuit inside graves with his cult for 100's of years, Aragao breaks them out with icy blues across the cemetery, whisked away in close-ups of blood- curdling cackles from their return.

As gore is sprayed all over the place, the screenplay by Aragao attempts a uneasy, but ambitious balance of supernatural chops with the shadows from the horrors of colonialism,where the serious manner in which massacre of the indigenous is presented, feels at odds with the pulpy chunks covering the cemetery of lost souls.