- A successful writer goes to an abandoned hotel with his wife and adopted daughter to finish his much anticipated follow-up book when strange things start to occur. At the same time, a high school teacher is forced to deal with her gruesome past which is linked to the same hotel.
- Arish Vema, a successful writer and Media personality, takes his new, designer family to an abandoned hotel in the Transkei to finish his much-anticipated follow up novel. He is accompanied by his white wife Angela and their adopted Zulu daughter, Ntombi. At the hotel, strange things start to happen which leave the family at a loss. It is revealed that the hotel has a dark past in which many murders were carried out since its establishment in 1808. There are rumours that this evil stems from the land being cursed since it was stolen from its native people. The hotel contains an ominous door which the family are afraid to enter. Meanwhile, in a city nearby, Thembi, a high school teacher, is experiencing strange visions and dreams which link her back to a gruesome past at the same hotel. Something seems to be "calling"" her back to the Hotel for unfinished business. She seeks the professional help of Dr Richards a well-known psychologist. She hopes that his interventions can help her rid herself of the "calling". Through a sequence of events, Thembi and Dr Richards return to the hotel and Thembi finally confronts the thing that has been calling her for years: the Tokoloshe.
- Based on the legend of the Tokoloshe, a boogeyman that has terrified Africa for centuries: A novelist pressured for a hit takes his family to an abandoned hotel in South Africa, unaware that it's haunted by a demon. When the writer becomes possessed and begins terrorizing his family, a local woman with supernatural visions sets out to help them defeat the Tokoloshe.—Together Magic Film Group
- Full Synopsis Arish Vema, a successful writer and Media personality, takes his new, designer family to an abandoned hotel in the Transkei to finish his much-anticipated follow up novel. He is accompanied by his white wife Angela and their adopted Zulu daughter, Ntombi. At the hotel, strange things start to happen which leave the family at a loss. It is revealed that the hotel has a dark past in which many murders were carried out since its establishment in 1808. There are rumours that this evil stems from the land being cursed since it was stolen from its native people. The hotel contains an ominous door which the family are afraid to enter. Meanwhile, in a city nearby, Thembi, a high school teacher, is experiencing strange visions and dreams which link her back to a gruesome past at the same hotel. Something seems to be "calling"" her back to the Hotel for unfinished business. She seeks the professional help of Dr Richards a well-known psychologist. She hopes that his interventions can help her rid herself of the "calling". Through a sequence of events, Thembi and Dr Richards return to the hotel and Thembi finally confronts the thing that has been calling her for years: the Tokoloshe.
Short Synopsis A successful writer goes to an abandoned hotel with his wife and adopted daughter to finish his much anticipated follow-up book when strange things start to occur. At the same time, a high school teacher is forced to deal with her gruesome past which is linked to the same hotel.
Log Line: A famous writer takes his young family to a quiet hotel to finish his much-anticipated novel, but he never imagines that the hotel's troubled past can evoke more nightmares that his fevered imagination could ever dream of.
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By what name was Tokoloshe: The Calling (2020) officially released in Canada in English?
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