O Cemitério das Almas Perdidas

Rodrigo Aragão's films are made for a guy like me: one who haunted the video store several times a week devouring horror movies. That was also the time of the SOV '80s when you could mail order horror films out of the back of magazines. Today, you can easily find most of these films on platforms such as You Tube or the Internet Archive. . . .

Aragão brings it: Creepy carnivals workers, Satanism, cursed cemeteries, the occult, along with all the dirt, grime, gore and oozing and crumbling zombies we want, and more!

The enjoyment, here, is that it takes me back to the works of Ruben Galindo Jr., with his own Cementerio del terror (1985) and Ladrones de tumbas (1989). As with Coscarelli's Phantasm or Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, I return to Galindo's and Aragão's work, often. Each are low-budget delights to behold. If you're a horror dog, more so a fan of low-budget films or SOVs, give 'em each a watch.

It is the Americans with the films of the Russian and Arab enemies and the Brazilians with the Portuguese, demons that they invoked are Cyprian.lol ir kkkkkkkk.

Well done horror action film from Brazil, with a lot of gore, creepy dark magic with religious tones, unconventionally portrayed vampire myth elements, and a two-period background ranging from Portuguese colonization and butchery of Indians and a contemporary travelling circus delivering its horror show in a tiny town with religious fanatic denizens. While there are few not so good moments, and the story is indeed a little confusing, the merits are remarkable, particularly considering the genre: awesome sets, art direction, make-up, soundtrack, light... everything leading to a quite spooky atmosphere.

Corrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they are cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.

I shouldn't mark it as watched, since I was scattered, inattentive and sleepy during its presentation, however the cause was not the uninteresting theme, nor its economic production, after all I love and am a lover of trash horror as well as national cinema, here we have a good mix of both, with a relatively good quality, I will need to review it to make a fairer analysis... Well...

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.