The filmmaker behind History of the Occult, which is now streaming on SCREAMBOX, Cristian Ponce is back this year with brand new horror movie A Mother’s Embrace.
Brazil’s Lupa Filmes is bringing A Mother’s Embrace to Cannes, and ahead of the festival they’ve shared a couple first-look images with Variety this afternoon.
Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, A Mother’s Embrace will see a team of firefighters trying to evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing.
But its mysterious residents have other plans.
Marjorie Estiano, Chandelly Braz, Javier Drolas, Maria Volpe, Mel Nunes and Reynaldo Machado star.
“One of our biggest influences is John Carpenter, who always tells stories about people stuck in some places they cannot escape,” Cristian Ponce said in a statement.
He added, “We try to create our own mythology here. You could say that these people, who form a cult, are trying to live a ‘better’ life. But what it means can be very subjective.”
Ponce’s History of the Occult was notably the highest-rated horror movie of 2021 on Letterboxd‘s Year in Review roundup, as rated by Letterboxd users.
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