Deadly Theremin Thais Bignardi

Legend goes that the last person to die on New Years' Eve becomes the Coachman in charge of collecting the souls of the dead until someone else takes their place in this nefarious task. The Phantom Carriage is a silent-film from what is known as the Golden Era of Swedish cinema. Directer and Starred by Victor Sjostrom, this classic is a masterclass in special effects and spectral superimposition with the most beautiful soundtrack by Matti Bye.

It's hard to believe this was Remi Week's debut film. His House blurrs the lines of real horror with traditional elements of fictional horror, bringing together an incredibly deep approach to the dichotomic commitments regarding the cultural memory of war refugees. It's delicate, and monstrous simultaneously. You can't miss this. 

Directed by Hideo Nakata, the J-horror masterpiece Ringu was based on a book released a few years earlier and it tells the tale of the vengeful spirit of a child that comes out of the screen to kill you if you watch their Stan Brakhagesque cursed tape! Sadako's aesthetic has become an universal pop culture symbol for fear and the deadly presence of beings from the aftelife in relation to elements familiar to us and present in our daily lives, such as TV devices -- and VHS tapes.  

A new season begins in this Deadly Theremin with one of the most famous films of the horror genre. Directed by Stanley Kubrik and based on a novel with the same name written by Stephen King, The Shining touches classic themes that frightens, in a suspense-building-but-also-already-kind-of-there atmosphere, different generations since its first release. It speaks directly to our most primal fears in a brutal fashion (yes, I am thinking about the elevator of blood). 

A season finale não podia terminar em melhor companhia. Convidei meus grandes amigos de longa data para analisar Bacurau do Kleber Mendonça Filho e Juliano Dornelles. Um filme que vai abordar todos os esqueletos no armário da sociedade brasileira usando a lingua franca dos westerns estado-unidenses, violência e uma trilha sonora incrível.

Simplesmente sensacional! Esse stop-motion de terror chileno que faz alusão aos contos de fadas dos irmãos Grimm, produzido ao longo de cinco anos e contando a narrativa de um membro de uma colonia-seita alemã que ainda existe no Chile, entrou pra lista de melhores filmes que eu já assisti. Os diretores conseguiram criar uma experiência imersiva a partir do rompimento com as barreiras entre figuração plana e volumétrica, sem falar da impressionante manipulação de materiais diante das câmeras por toda a equipe.