{"id":22848,"date":"2016-10-20T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22848"},"modified":"2016-10-20T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:37:17","slug":"supernatural-horrors-shorts-block-part-2-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/supernatural-horrors-shorts-block-part-2-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernatural Horrors Shorts Block Part 2 [Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"supernatural-horrors-shorts-block-part-2-madre-de-dios\"<\/a>Madre de Dios (Canada) (2015)
\n<\/strong>During a cult-like ceremony, two Brujos use a scared and hurt woman as a vessel to birth the Anti-Christ.\u00a0 Written by Luke Bramley, Shane McKenzie, and Gigi Saul Guerrero, based on a story by the latter, and directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, Madre de Dios is a quick glance into a deranged couple\u2019s cult and how far they will go to bring forth the one they praise.\u00a0 The cast of three composed of Luis Javier and Gabriela Zimmerman as the couple and Tristan Risk as their victim, their Santa Muerte, give interesting performances.<\/p>\n

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Javier and Zimmerman give a maniacal glee to their characters as they go through their ritual. Risk brings a palpable fear to her part without saying a word.\u00a0 Together, this glee and her fear create a perfect storm of emotions for this short and its story.\u00a0 The effects created by Andrea Dulmage, Amy-Leigh Poitras, Tomasz Sosnowski, and Carolyn Williams look good and are properly bloody.\u00a0 The film is creepy in its use of religion mixed with cult which may work better for those raised with a Catholic background but it should work for anyone given the cult angle.<\/p>\n

Mexican Flaminco (Mexico) (2016)
\n<\/strong>Two dancers, a girl and a Llorona figure, face off in ruins in a beautiful dance where they represent life and death as well as a myriad of other things.\u00a0 This short by Ma-ria Aliaga and Nur Rubio showcases talented dancers giving inspired performances.\u00a0 The film looks good with beautiful imagery in spots, showing off a nice, old location as background for this dance battle.\u00a0 While the film looks great with beautiful shots and sequences and the dancing is good, it does feel a bit long and could have used a bit of trimming.<\/p>\n

Deathly (USA) (2015)
\n<\/strong>After his disabled wife\u2019s death, a man attempts to adjust to life alone when odd events start happening.\u00a0 Writer\/director Mike Williamson creates a chilling, scary tale of guilt and revenge where all the scares happen in one house.\u00a0 His characters are interesting and his cast composed of Alan Ruck and Katherine Wilhoite in the leads with Christina Elizabeth Smith and Mickey Keating in the supporting parts all show talent with Ruck and Wilhoite getting the most interesting roles.\u00a0 The two of them play well together and give their all to these parts.\u00a0 They both show great emotions in an odd situation.<\/p>\n

The special effects done under the supervision of Jeffrey S. Farley and by Kevin Dee Watson here bring an extra layer to the fear factor creating a visual source for the feelings of uneasiness then flat out fear, their design interesting and surprising to great effect.\u00a0 The cinematography by Lyn Moncrief makes the film look like a big budget horror film and shows that it is a well-planned, very well shot, and well done film.\u00a0 Deathly is one of those shorts that surprises by its subject, its cast, and its execution.\u00a0 It shows that great things can be done in short format and not all stories require 90 minutes or more to be told with talent and create an interesting film to watch.<\/p>\n

Leshy (aka Lesapan) (Czech Republic) (2015)
\n<\/strong>Anna tells the story of her father the gamekeeper who protects the forest when poachers awaken something that they all must contend with.\u00a0 Written by Petr Koubek and directed by Pavel Soukup, the film tells its story from the point of view of a little girl (mostly) and it does so without going childish or immature while giving off a dark fairytale vibe.\u00a0 The settings and how the film is acted and shot help this a lot.\u00a0 The small cast is led by Vladimira Havlickova as Anna giving a mature performance a protagonist and the narrator; she is both central and external to the story.\u00a0 She gives the kind of performance one would expect from a much older actress.<\/p>\n

In the part of her father, a part with very few lines, is Marek Pospichal who gives a solemn performance as he works to keep the forest and its inhabitants safe.\u00a0 As this is a creature film, the creature is rather important and is played here by Josef Rarach who gives a performance somewhere between Doug Jones and Jonathan Breck in movement style and interpretation.\u00a0 This creature is also the work of Rarach and special effects designer Vlad Taupesh who give it a look right out of a Del Toro movie.\u00a0 Leshy is a lush looking dark fairytale that shows tons of talent from all involved and could easily be turned into a feature if the general feel to it can be sustained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madre de Dios (Canada) (2015) During a cult-like ceremony, two Brujos use a scared and hurt woman as a vessel to birth the Anti-Christ.\u00a0 Written by Luke Bramley, Shane McKenzie, and Gigi Saul Guerrero, based on a story by the latter, and directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, Madre de Dios is a quick glance into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284,7,12],"tags":[367,477,501,938],"class_list":["post-22848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22850,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848\/revisions\/22850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}