Stars: Viktor Klem, Fruzsina Hais, Judit Schell, Zsolt Anger, Gabor Reviczky, Gabriella Hamori, Erik Gyarmati, Diana Magdolna Kiss | Written by Peter Bergendy, Piros Zankay, Gabor Hellebrandt | Directed by Peter Bergendy
I hate really bland titles for horror movies. Of all the things people could come up with, the films get called things like….. Post Mortem. Of course, it’s nearly never the actual director’s choice and quite often the film is much better than the title suggests.
An ex-soldier of the first World War is now a photographer that takes pictures of the dead, often with their, very much alive, relatives. He visits a small village that has suffered from Spanish Flu, with bodies piling up and unable to be buried because of the frozen ground. Here he meets a young girl, and they will help the town and its unfriendly ghosts.
Post Mortem looked so much better than I was expecting.
I hate really bland titles for horror movies. Of all the things people could come up with, the films get called things like….. Post Mortem. Of course, it’s nearly never the actual director’s choice and quite often the film is much better than the title suggests.
An ex-soldier of the first World War is now a photographer that takes pictures of the dead, often with their, very much alive, relatives. He visits a small village that has suffered from Spanish Flu, with bodies piling up and unable to be buried because of the frozen ground. Here he meets a young girl, and they will help the town and its unfriendly ghosts.
Post Mortem looked so much better than I was expecting.
- 10/24/2022
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
If you’re sick of finding pandemic parallels in everything, no need to worry about Péter Bergendy’s period horror “Post Mortem,” the Hungarian Oscar entry. It manages to avoid saying anything about our current moment despite being set during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, when that virus was well on its way to killing 50 million people globally. Worry instead that, as good as it looks with its fun special effects and promisingly creepy premise, this oddly un-scary ghost story is going to devolve into a hopeless muddle: Can a horror-movie village ever just be too haunted? It would seem it can.
There is a clever idea nestled in the film’s bleak setting, however. At the end of the then-unprecedented loss of life occasioned by the Great War, with a pandemic raging, it’s quite believable that unquiet spirit activity might be at an all-time high. The constant death...
There is a clever idea nestled in the film’s bleak setting, however. At the end of the then-unprecedented loss of life occasioned by the Great War, with a pandemic raging, it’s quite believable that unquiet spirit activity might be at an all-time high. The constant death...
- 12/18/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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