We are pleased to announce that the specialist genre film company Black Mandala has acquired the Hungarian horror film Post Mortem, directed by Péter Bergendy. The movie has been chosen by to represent Hungary at the Oscars 2022 in the category of Best International Feature Film. Post Mortem premiered at the Warsaw and Sitges film festivals last year, and went on to screen at more than 20 genre festivals, picking up prizes in Trieste, Fantasporto, Sombra and Parma.
Last week the film received 10 awards at TORONTO AFTER DARK Film Festival.
Set at the end of the First World War, the film follows Tomás, a traveling photographer who wanders through Hungary and photographs the recently deceased. Following the premonitory call of a 10-year-old orphan girl, Anna, arrives in a small town where an unusual number of supernatural phenomena occur. The spirits need to tell him something, so Thomas decides to find out what is happening.
The critic said:
“Post Mortem manages to be the most inventive version of spooks on screen in years…” (Kat Hughes, The Hollywood News)
“Post Mortem is beautiful and haunting. Featuring top notch visual effects and stunt work, this Hungarian horror film features no shortage of memorable sequences…” (Joe Lipsett, Queer Horror Movies)
“Bergendy, working from a screenplay by Piros Zánkay, helms the film marvelously, with no shortage of suspense or chills…” (Joseph Perry, Scaries Things)
“Post Mortem is an atmospheric ghost story, of the variety that a lot of filmmakers seem to have forgotten how to make”. (Martyn Conterio, Cinevue)
