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Locarno, Switzerland — Brit Richard Billingham’s “Ray & Liz,” “A Family Tour,” from Chinese exile Ying Liang, Chilean Dominga Sotomayor’s “Too Late to Die Young” made some of the very early running in main competition at the 71st Locarno Festival, which saw a slew of negotiations kick off, and some deals go down, at its packed Industry Days which wrapped Monday.

The films world premiered at Europe’s biggest mid-summer film meet as Meg Ryan, Antoine Fuqua, Ethan Hawke and France’s Bruno Dumont rolled into town. Ryan talked of her new career as a director, producer, announcing a new project, half-hour comedy “The Obsolescents”: Fuqua, at Locarno for “The Equaliser 2,” talked intelligently about how to empower black filmmakers in Hollywood; Hawke, here to present “Blaze,” will receive the 2018 Excellence Award; Dumont, world premiering feature/series “Coincoin and the Extra Humans,” maybe the best received of Piazza Grande offerings to date,...

The award winning Brazilian horror feature Beyond the Grave (2010) is available for free on Hulu. The film collected 14 international awards plus selections for more than 80 film festivals around the globe, including Sitges Film Festival and Chicago Latino Film Festival. Written, produced and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro, Beyond the Grave (aka Porto dos Mortos) tells the surrealistic journey of an unnamed police officer (Rafael Tombini) through the empty highways of a … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: Among the deals, Mexico’s In Films We Trust will buy a package of eight Russian films from Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs.

Moscow Business Square’s Latin American focus has already borne its first fruits less than a week after the event closed.

Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, consultant Diana Karklin revealed that Russian producer Vlad Ketkovich will serve as the executive producer on the Mexican documentary Torre about the tragic story of Mexico’s greatest ever chess player Carlos Torre, which was pitched in Moscow by director Juan Obregon and co-director/producer Roberto Garza.

In addition, Mexico’s facilities house Studio 5 de mayo plans to finance the post-production of Maria Gavrilova´s Brazilian-Russian documentary project Close Your Eyes by Marx Films, as well as for the Colombian project Revolution which was pitched at Mbs by the producer-director-screenwriter team of Camilo Molano Parra, Felipe Cano Ibanez and Santiago Ardilla Reyes.

Karklin also noted...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes details on the Lethal Ladies of Horror Film Festival, House of Monsters concept art, a Chainsaw Sally: The Animated Series casting update, multiple trailers, reviews, and much more:

Lethal Ladies of Horror Film Festival Details: “You can’t keep a lethal lady down. Flicks for Fans and Arrow in the Head, the team behind last year’s Evil Dead Fest, are proud to present the resurrection of the all new Lethal Ladies of Horror Film Festival Saturday, March 29th, 2014 at the famed art deco-themed 1940’s built Crest Theatre in Westwood, CA. This will be an amazing event for all film fans and those with an appreciation for strong roles by women in horror. As always Flicks for Fans will have much for fans who attend the fest including great concession specials,...

★☆☆☆☆ Regurgitating elements of both the horror and western genres into a hideous example of grindhouse gone wrong, Brazilian director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro's Beyond the Grave (2010) is an abysmal post-apocalyptic revenge thriller. In a desolate dystopia ravaged by some unspecified disaster, a merciless former-police officer (Rafael Tombini) is searching for a possessed killer. In a world where black magic dictates the tempo of everyday life and zombies roam freely like disoriented pedestrians, this is a road trip through the eerily deserted boondocks of Hell - where deliverance from evil is a wishful delusion.

As he embarks on his 'life or death' mission to find this supernatural serial killer, Tombini runs into violent cowboys, a sword-wielding assassin, two lost teenagers and a former blind colleague now infected and motivated merely by the taste of human flesh. Amalgamating choice cuts from Tarantino's oeuvre, Jodorowsky's El Topo (1970) and even Stephen King's The Stand,...

Porto dos Mortos (Beyond The Grave)

Written by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro

Directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro

Brazil, 2010

There’s a fundamental problem with a film that eschews internal coherency for existential pondering. Such is the state of affairs with Porto dos Mortos, a 2010 Brazilian horror effort. The film starts off yearning to be existentially important and finishes hoping that it has proven that it is an existentially great film. Most cinephiles will tell you that the existentially great films are great not because of their willingness to be existential but because of their willingness to simply be. It’s not a highfalutin concept mind you, it’s the simple matter of a movie being as true to itself as it possibly can be. Yearning to be accepted as existential flies in the face of a film being true to itself. Porto dos Mortos feels and plays as false...

Beyond The Grave

Stars: Rafael Tombini, Álvaro Rosa Costa, Ricardo Seffner, Amanda Lerias, Luciana Verch, Leandro Lefa, Tatiana Paganella, Adriano Basegio | Written and Directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro

“In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil”

Films that feature zombies can be quite interesting, they tend to have different styles based on which part of the world they are based in. Beyond the Grave is a zombie film originating in Brazil and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro and he creates a film where zombies are in ways nothing more than a background menace to the main plot, which itself is more interesting than the average story of the undead.

The main character of the piece is only known as the police officer,...

Oct. 12

8:00 p.m.

Spectacle Theater

124 South 3rd Street

Brooklyn, New York 11211

Hosted by: InFEST Underground

The InFEST Underground screening series is hosting an epic night of dark and twisted short films, plus the acclaimed Brazilian horror flick Beyond the Grave, directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro.

Beyond the Grave, a post-apocalyptic zombie western, has been tearing it up on the underground film festival circuit the past few years, winning the Best Horror Film award at the Arizona Underground Film Festival, and screening at the Montreal Underground and at the B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival. In the film, a police officer in a desolate wasteland filled with freaks tracks down a possessed serial killer. Watch the trailer below!

But, before the feature presentation, is a 98-minute block of short films from a few of the masters of the form, including Brian Lonano, Kevin Lonano, Carey Burtt and more. The...

We’re back with a new edition of the Indie Spotlight. Today’s feature covers the latest independent horror news sent our way, including a violent vampire tale, the birth of a new slasher, and much more:

The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann: “….the story of troubled teenager Isabel Mann (Ellen Mullen) who is seduced into an incredibly violent sect of day-walking vampires. Her class mates start to go missing and on the trail of the gruesome murders are two detectives; Witham (Neill Fleming) – who believes her to be the prime suspect and Barrett (Matthew Toman) – who has his doubts. Nothing is quite as it seems for those about her as the disturbed teenager runs amok killing at will in the woodlands by her home; aided by her vampire guides Mirjana (Mirjana Rendulic) and Alejo (Karim Elgendy) who are training her in the art of the kill – with horrifically bloody results for those closest to her.

For their seventh annual edition, the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival is really blowing things up!

Well, not literally. But the world’s premiere horror movie fest is expanding to over double its regular size, screening over 50 films on nine terrifying nights Oct. 10-18 at its new home, the prestigious AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The scares kick off on the 10th with the return of local fave filmmaker Richard Bates, Jr. with the feature-length version of Excision about a teenage girl obsessed with becoming a surgeon. The film co-stars John Waters, Malcolm McDowell and Traci Lords. Bates’ original short Excision on which the feature is based screened at Spooky Movie back in 2008.

A few other Spooky Movie alumni who are back with highly anticipated new films include Mike Davis‘ “green” horror movie President Wolfman, which is composed entirely of public domain footage mixed with a rip-roarin...

The theme for this year’s B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival, held in the city of Breda in the Netherlands, is “Apocalypse.” So get ready to watch the world end dozens of different ways on Sept. 5-9 at various venues around the city.

The fun kicks off on the 5th with the German movie Hell by director Tim Fehlbaum. If you didn’t know, “hell” means “bright” in German and, given that title, this flick is set appropriately in a post-apocalyptic future where global warming has decimated the planet and surviving tribes battle for water and food.

Other post-apocalyptic visions include Milan Konjevic’s Zone of the Dead starring legendary zombie killer Ken Foree; Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro’s Bazillian underground hit Beyond the Grave about a world where magic and madness rule the world; and Rob van Eyck’s bizarrely twisted Afterman and Afterman 2.

Not all the...

The Brazilian film Beyond the Grave, produced by Lockheart Filmes, is now available on the VOD platform in USA, Latin America and also Caribbean.

A mixture of art-house horror, existential road movie and spaghetti western, the movie can be watched instantly on Netflix in more than 40 countries.

The film is the feature directorial debut of 33 years old filmmaker Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro, who also writes and produces.

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The seventh annual Montreal Underground Film Festival features four nights — and one matinee — of experimental short films from all over the world, plus two feature films. The fun takes place May 17-20 with the opening night event being held at Sala Rossa before the rest of the fest moves to Peut-être Vintage.

The opening batch of short films includes Winnipeg filmmaker Aaron Zeghers‘ The Story of Thomas Edison, plus films by fellow Winnipegger Scott Fitzpatrick, Simon Lacroix, Erin Weisgerber, Charles Fairbanks and many more.

Several other Winnipeggers have films throughout the rest of the fest, including Heidi Phillips‘ The Last Harvest and Noam Gonick’s Hirsch. Representing the U.S. are Neil Ira Needleman‘s Prelude & Erotiloop, Tony Gault‘s Ghost of Yesterday and Ben Popp‘s Lazslo Lassu.

The two feature-length films both screen on the last day of the fest, including Larry Wessel‘s epic documentary on Boyd Rice,...

It was in 2008 when we first heard about Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro's Beyond the Grave (Porto Dos Mortos), but things appear to be back on track for the Brazilian film as it's screening at the Chicago Latino Film Festival on April 21st and 26th.

Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (who also produced with Isidoro B. Guggiana), Beyond the Grave follows the unstoppable hunt of a vengeful cop (Rafael Tombini) for a supernatural serial killer. In its film festival circuit the Brazilian fantasy feature gained international acclaim, being also selected for the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Cuba), and won two awards: Best Horror Feature Award at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and Audience Choice Award for Best Latin American Feature at Montevideo Fantástico (Uruguay).

Shot in the city of Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, Beyond the Grave is an arthouse mixture of road movie, spaghetti western,...

*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro.

Director/writer: Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro.

Cast: Rafael Tombini, Álvaro Rosa Costa and Ricardo Seffner.

Portos dos Mortos or Beyond the Grave is currently making the rounds on the film festival circuits in North America. A more accurate translation of the Portuegese title is Portals of the Dead and this film is from Brazilian director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro. Pinheiro has developed a suitable action thriller here set in a zombie apocalypse. The desolate locales and makeup effects highlight the apocalypse, while a western genred film tries to develop in the character's dress and armaments. The characters are what made this film interesting to one reviewer and fans of indie zombie fiction should seek this film out.

Actor Rafael Tombini is a police officer who is seeking out an elusive demon. This supernatural being can...

The Arizona Underground Film Festival wrapped up its 3rd and biggest year ever back on Sept. 25. Over a wild eight days, the fest screened 30 feature films and 50 short films from all over the world, some of them making their world premiere or their U.S. debut. Out of those films, Auff handed out a dozen awards.

Auff gave out awards to both shorts and features in the categories of Best Narrative, Best Horror, Best Documentary. Plus, they gave out awards such as Best Exploitation, Best Experimental, Audience Award, Director’s Choice and more.

Best Experimental went to a film directed nearly 30 years ago that’s just being seen now. That film is Window on Your Present by Cinqué Lee, brother of Spike Lee.

Other big winners are Corey Adams and Alex Craig’s skateboard fantasy Machotaildrop for Best Narrative Feature; Aurelio Voltaire‘s short film Demiurge Emesis for Best Animation...

Tucson and Phoenix: Prepare to be rocked, shocked and defiled. Blasting its way into its third — and biggest — year on Sept. 18-25, the Arizona Underground Film Festival is a cacophonous concoction of angry transsexuals, bumbling hit men, slacker superheroes, living dolls, aliens, dead hookers, adventure-seeking blondes and other crazies.

This year the fest is screening 30 feature films, some of which are making their U.S. and even world debuts. The opening night film is the U.S. premiere of the German hit man comedy Snowman’s Land, directed by Tomasz Thomson,while closing the fest is the controversial and violent A Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic, which you have to be over-18 to get into.

Don’t worry, there’s plenty of homebrewed films as well, such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska; Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Joseph Guzman; 1,001 Ways to Enjoy the...

The feature film "Beyond The Grave" (aka "Porto Dos Mortos"), produced by Lockheart Filmes Ltda., has its American premiere set to 25 September at Arizona Underground Film Festival. The world premiere will be in September 9 at Cinefantasy film festival, in São Paulo. Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (who's also producing with Isidoro B. Guggiana), "Beyond The Grave" follows the unstoppable hunt of the vengeful cop Lockheart (Rafael Tombini) for a supernatural serial killer known as the The Dark Rider. ""Beyond The Grave" is a genre film based on the loneliness of a post-apocalyptic planet", says director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro. "Through the creation of this particular world, I tried to convey not only the films that I love, but the fragility of the human being...

'Beyond The Grave' looks to be a gritty and bloody feature film that has just about everything a horror fan needs. Check out the trailer below and the official press release about the upcoming American premiere at the Arizona Underground Film Festival. We've got some stills for your viewing pleasure as well. Enjoy.

The feature film Beyond The Grave (aka Porto Dos Mortos), produced by Lockheart Filmes Ltda., has its American premiere set to 25 September at Arizona Underground Film Festival. The world premiere will be in September 9 at Cinefantasy film festival, in São Paulo. Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (who's also producing with Isidoro B. Guggiana), Beyond The Grave follows the unstoppable hunt of the vengeful cop Lockheart (Rafael Tombini) for a supernatural serial killer known as the The Dark Rider.

"Beyond The Grave is a genre film based on the loneliness of a post-apocalyptic...

Character MachiavelliDirector Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro's Beyond the Grave will have a North American premiere at the Arizona Underground Film Festival this September 25th. Pinheiro's and producer Isidoro B. Guggiana's vision for the film is one of destruction and violence, as The Dark Rider, a "possessed serial killer," (Beyond) removes the last breaths from many innocent lives. Pinheiro describes the setting of his film as "a post-apocalyptic planet," (Beyond) and fans of adrenalin fueled crime thrillers will find something of value in this Brazilian shot film. The film's official trailer is past the break.

The synopsis for Beyond the Grave here:

"In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil" (Beyond).

Lockheart (Rafael Tombini) faces The Dark Rider

Release Date: September 25th...

The Brazilian horror flick Porto Dos Mortos (aka Beyond the Grave) will be seen by lucky genre fans at film festivals this fall, and for those of you out in the cold, we've got a trailer ready for your enjoyment .

Fans attending the Arizona Underground Film Festival will catch the American premiere on September 25th while the world premiere is this Thursday, September 9, at Cinefantasy Film Festival in São Paulo.

Writer/director/producer Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro's Beyond the Grave stars Rafael Tombini, Álvaro Rosacosta, Ricardo Seffner, Leandro Lefa, Luciana Verch, and Amanda Grimaldi.

In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer (Tombini) searches for a possessed serial killer known as The Dark Rider in a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil.

"Beyond the Grave is a genre film based on the loneliness of a post-apocalyptic planet", says Pinheiro.

The Brazilian horror film Beyond the Grave makes its world premiere September 9 at the Cinefantasy film festival, in São Paulo. The American premiere will take place at the Arizona Underground Film Festival on September 25, 2010. Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro Beyond the Grave follows the unstoppable hunt of the vengeful cop Lockheart (Rafael Tombini) for a supernatural serial killer known as the The Dark Rider.

The Brazilian Beyond the Grave is set to premiere at the Arizona Underground Film Festival on September 25. The world premiere will be on September 9 at the Cinefantasy film festival, in São Paulo. Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro, Beyond the Grave follows vengeful cop Lockheart (Rafael Tombini) who is on the unstoppable hunt for a supernatural serial killer known as the The Dark Rider. "Beyond The Grave is a genre film based on the loneliness of a post-apocalyptic planet," says director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro. "Through the creation of this particular world, I tried to convey not only the films that I love, but the fragility of the human being in this time of fear and battle against nature, without of course forgetting to bring some...

Azuff BannerSeveral films have been announced as participating in this year's Arizona Underground Film Festival including: Snowman's Land, Last Rites of Ransom Pride, Beyond the Grave, The Last Lovercraft: Relic of Cthulhu, Machotaildrop and the notoriously violent A Serbian Film. Each film looks interesting and from a brief look this reviewer is looking forward to the western styled Last Rites the most. The film stars Kris Kristofferson, Dwight Yoakam, and Scott Speedman. Last Rites centers on a female protagonist attempting to bring her dead lover home with guns and sex appeal ablazing. Have a look at a brief synopsis for each film; then, choose your own favourite and get set to attend the festival September 18th. Tickets are available August 23rd. All the available details are below.

Snowman’s Land

Director: Tomasz Thompson.

The synopsis for Snowman's Land here:

"Hapless contract killer Walter has screwed up a hit badly, and...

The Arizona Underground Film Festival has just revealed the names of six feature films chosen to screen at its third annual edition that will run on Sept. 18 to 25 in Tucson and Tempe, Az. The selections are an exciting mix of genre-bending films from all over the world, several of which are making their North American and World Premieres.

Azuff began as a modest three-day affair back in 2008 and has now grown into a full-blown eight-day affair in 2010. The sampling of titles that have been announced are a good sampling of the overall tone of the fest. The films range from black comedy to western to horror to one of the most controversial films of the year, A Serbian Film. Countries that some of the other films come from include Germany and Brazil.

Listed below are the six titles that have been announced so far and the full lineup will be released on Sept.

V2 Cinema has released a new short film called ‘The Soul Detective’ that features cult director David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr.) in a guest star role. We have embedded the video below for you, along with a selection of Hi-res promo photos.

Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (who’s also producing with Letícia de Cássia), the film follows a psychic investigation inside the mind of a recently deceased man, before all his memories vanish. The Soul Detective is the fifth and last episode from Brazilian web series Boundaries of Thought: Think Tank. Together, the five shorts show 54 minutes of footage on-line.

The interview with Lynch, the director of “Mulholland Drive” was only the beginning of the creative process of The Soul Detective. “The interview was not made to be a piece of ‘cinéma vérité’ [cinema of truth], but as a sound and vision experiment,...

Cult filmmaker David Lynch has featured in a short film from Brazilian writer and director Davi De Oliveira Pinheiro. The Twin Peaks creator's voice has been edited into a short called The Soul Detective, the fifth and final episode of the Boundaries Of Thought: Think Tank web series. De Oliveira Pinheiro said: "The interview was not made to be a piece of cinéma vérité (cinema of truth), (more)...

Well, this is an odd little beast. Brazil’s Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro recently completed a short film titled The Soul Detective, a film that stars none other than iconic American director David Lynch as himself. The ten minute short is the final entry in a web series called simply The Think Tank, an interview series with a variety of film makers but doing a straight up talking-head piece just wouldn’t suit either Pinheiro or Lynch, and so they’ve come up with something entirely different - a short that uses Lynch’s words as the launching point for a surreal, stream of consciousness fiction.

A detective enters a train car were he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. Using his telepathic powers he tries to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before all his memories vanish.

Check it out below the break!

The Soul Detective is the fifth and last episode from Brazilian web series Boundaries of Thought: Think Tank. It was written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro, whose post-apocalyptic thriller Beyond the Grave we're very much looking forward to. Concerning a murder, a train car, supernatural forces and a detective in a classic black and white 60s cut mod suit, the short is very reminiscent of the general vibe of Twin Peaks which is perhaps why I'm not totally surprised to see David Lynch make an appearance.

A detective enters a train car were he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. Using his telepathic powers he tries to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before all his memories vanish.

We've got the whole 10 minute short after the break for ya so check it when the boss ain't looking.

The Soul Detective from Think Tank on Vimeo.

A detective enters a train car were he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. Using his telepathic powers he tries to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before all his memories vanish.

V2 Cinema presents the short feature The Soul Detective, starring American filmmaker David Lynch, on www.v2cinema.com. Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro director of Beyond The Grave (who's also producing with Letícia de Cássia), the film follows a psychic investigation inside the mind of a recently deceased man, before all his memories vanish.

Shot in two days in the city of Porto Alegre, The Soul Detective completes the Think Tank series. Split between five shorts, directed by five different Brazilian filmmakers, it presents almost an hour of interviews and visual essays. Lynch, Beto Brant, Philip Glass, Fernando Arrabal, José Padilha...

Brazil’s V2 Cinema has announced that master of the mysterious David Lynch stars in its new short The Soul Detective. The nine-minute movie, which you can watch at the bottom of this page, is the fifth in the web series Boundaries Of Thought: Think Tank.

Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (pictured above with Lynch), who also produced with Letícia de Cássia, The Soul Detective stars Leandro Lefa in the title role, who attempts to psychically enter the brain of a recently deceased man in an abandoned train car haunted by a paranormal force, before the dead man’s memories vanish. Carolina Silvestre and Isidoro B. Guggiana co-star; shots of Lynch being interviewed are interspersed among the detective’s attempts to penetrate the corpse’s mind. “The interview was not made to be a piece of cinema vérité,” Pinheiro says, “but as a sound and vision experiment,...

I don't like David Lynch's films but I respect the dude so it is with some joy that I report to you Lynch will be acting in the short The Soul Detective. Made by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro, it revolves around a detective who enters a train car filled with different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. He uses his telepathic powers to try to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before his memories vanish. It sounds pretty cool and the best part is that you can actually check...

V2 Cinema presents the short feature The Soul Detective , starring American filmmaker David Lynch, on V2cinema.com . Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (who's also producing with Letícia de Cássia), the film follows a psychic investigation inside the mind of a recently deceased man, before all his memories vanish. The Soul Detective is the fifth and last episode from Brazilian web series Boundaries of Thought: Think Tank . Together, the five shorts show 54 minutes of footage on-line. A conversation with the director of Mulholland Drive was only the beginning of the creative process of The Soul Detective . "The interview was not made to be a piece of 'cinéma vérité' [cinema of truth], but as a sound and vision experiment, to see how an opinion can...

Lockheart Filmes Ltda. sent us some really cool movie stills from the independent Brazilian horror-fantasy “Beyond the Grave” aka Porto Dos Mortos written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro. Synopsis: “Beyond the Grave” follows a dark journey through the wastelands of a dystopic Brazil. In this forsaken landscape, Lockheart will join forces with a group of survivors and face his demonic nemesis and the rage of the “returners” who inhabited the world. “This is not a zombie or serial killer film, but a reaction to the recent production as well as to my own preconceptions of what the movie should be. It’s a violent and emotional experience, mixing possession, black magic, the living dead and intense doses of suspense, [...]...

Lockheart Filmes Ltda. sent us the first full movie trailer for the independent Brazilian horror-fantasy “Beyond the Grave” aka Porto Dos Mortos written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro. Synopsis: “Beyond the Grave” follows a dark journey through the wastelands of a dystopic Brazil. In this forsaken landscape, Lockheart will join forces with a group of survivors and face his demonic nemesis and the rage of the “returners” who inhabited the world. “This is not a zombie or serial killer film, but a reaction to the recent production as well as to my own preconceptions of what the movie should be. It’s a violent and emotional experience, mixing possession, black magic, the living dead and intense doses of suspense, [...]...

We’ve been tracking the progress of Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro’s Brazilian zombie picture Beyond the Grave for a good while now, and why not? When you’ve got the same effects crew doing your make up as handled the latest from the legendary Coffin Joe and are citing the likes of Jodorowsky and Sergio Leone as key visual influences there is lots of reason for hope. Well, the full trailer for the film has just arrived and while it definitely shows it’s budget limits a little bit this thing looks like some bloodily impressive stuff. Not content to do ‘just another zombie movie’ Pinheiro builds his film around a cop tracking a serial killer in a world that just happens to be in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. And those visual influences? The Leone is definitely there and I see a lot of Dick Tracy style...

In a nice break from the Comic Con madness we’ve been embroiled in for the past week or so, Brazilian filmmaker Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro just sent out a heads up that the first trailer for his film Beyond the Grave is now up on the flick’s official site.

Along with that cool bit of info, he sent over four new pics from the film as well. Since it’s been a while since we’ve talked about Beyond the Grave, allow me to refresh your memory: The film follows a vengeance-filled cop as he tracks down the supernatural serial killer known as Adam though a dystopic Brazilian landscape.

“This is not a zombie or serial killer film,” Pinheiro says, ”but a reaction to the recent production as well as to my own preconceptions of what the movie should be. It’s a violent and emotional experience, mixing possession,...

Lockheart Filmes, in association with V2 Cinema, is at work on the set of Brazilian horror-fantasy feature Beyond The Grave (aka Porto Dos Mortos) since February 14. Writer and director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (who's also producing with Isidoro B. Guggiana) and crew are currently filming in the city of Porto Alegre. The principal photography is expected to end March 4. "Beyond The Grave is gradually becoming organic as a movie should be. Now it has its own life. It's very much alive", says the director. A team of forty professionals is working to bring the film to its full form. You can check out the first four pics inside and more from the director.