Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Pray (2014, Claudio Ellovitch)

Pretty cool experimental short film out of Brazil that follows some kinda Christ-like guy as he wanders through a hellish city full of devastation and deformity. Along the way, he has a deep religious experience as he is whipped by some evil old guy (again, in a very Jesus-y kind of manner) and is approached by a loving, angelic woman before he is beheaded by the old dude...

As a 15-minute short, "Pray" is a stylishly 'trippy' film that offers up some cool, morbid visuals and some decent effects, from what I could make out. It reminded me quite a bit of the films of Andrey Iskanov and Karim Hussain. Overall, a good 'arthouse'-horror short.

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