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
Made to resemble silent-era shockers, this black-and-white ghost story is no classic but offers a smart study of historical trauma
Set in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic, this period Hungarian horror directed by Péter Bergendy is imbued with shades of black and grey, a monochromatic colour scheme designed to feel reminiscent of classic silent horror films.
Returning from the first world war where he has endured a near-death experience, Tomás (Viktor Klem) swaps his guns for a camera as he takes a job as a post-mortem photographer, a carnivalesque gig where he poses and takes pictures of the dead for their loved ones. A chance encounter with the orphaned Anna (Fruzsina Hais) leads Tomás to her strange, remote village where people are mysteriously dying en masse. Through the magic of photography – and the phonograph – the sleuthing pair uncover dark supernatural forces that lurk underneath the sleepy town.
Set in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic, this period Hungarian horror directed by Péter Bergendy is imbued with shades of black and grey, a monochromatic colour scheme designed to feel reminiscent of classic silent horror films.
Returning from the first world war where he has endured a near-death experience, Tomás (Viktor Klem) swaps his guns for a camera as he takes a job as a post-mortem photographer, a carnivalesque gig where he poses and takes pictures of the dead for their loved ones. A chance encounter with the orphaned Anna (Fruzsina Hais) leads Tomás to her strange, remote village where people are mysteriously dying en masse. Through the magic of photography – and the phonograph – the sleuthing pair uncover dark supernatural forces that lurk underneath the sleepy town.
- 10/24/2022
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
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
Hungary has picked Post Mortem, a period horror movie set at the end of World War I, to be its official contender for the 2022 Oscars in the best international feature category.
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
- 10/6/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hungary has picked Post Mortem, a period horror movie set at the end of World War I, to be its official contender for the 2022 Oscars in the best international feature category.
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
Directed by Peter Bergendy, Post Mortem premiered at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival and screened at Spain’s Sitges and several international fantasy film fests. It won four trophies at the Hungarian Motion Picture Awards, including for best cinematography, best editing, best make-up, and best production design.
The film follows Tomás (Viktor Klem), a post-mortem photographer wandering through Hungary in the freezing winter of 1918, when the country has been devastated by ...
- 10/6/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"You know how dangerous this is?" Signature Entertainment has debuted an official UK trailer for an indie crime thriller titled The Whiskey Bandit (or also The Whiskey Robber), based on astonishing true events of Attila Ambrus, the "most infamous bank robber in Hungary." Originally titled A Viszkis in Hungarian, the film is about a slick bank robber dubbed "The Whiskey Robber" who would drink whiskey before every robbing, notorious during the 1990s for committing a string of undercover "gentleman robberies" in and around Budapest, Hungary, while working a day job as a goaltender for a hockey team. Bence Szalay stars as Attila, and the cast includes Zoltán Schneider, Viktor Klem, Piroska Móga, and György Gazsó. This looks intense and fun to watch, what a crazy story, reminds me a bit of The Wolf of Wall Street. Enjoy. Here's the official UK trailer (+ poster) for Nimród Antal's The Whiskey Bandit,...
- 9/3/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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