The Field Guide to Evil
Directed by Yannis Veslemes, Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland
Director
Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes
Writer
Robert Bolesto, Elif Domanic, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Peter Strickland, Silvia Wolkan
Cast
Birgit Minichmayr, Sarah Navratil, Jilon VanOver
contact
The Festival Agency
Official selection
SXSW 2018, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2018
"A fun and fascinating exploration of the universal nature of fear"Josh Hurtado, SCREEN ANARCHY
"A love letter to horror, and a well-timed reminder that what scares us knows no physical or linguistic borders"Isaac Feldberg, CUTPRINTFILM
The world can be a scary place, no matter where you travel. Every country has its creatures of folklore, lurking in the woods and shadows throughout history. In Austria, the Trud emerges to punish a girl indulging in a forbidden love. Woe betide a pregnant woman in Turkey who attracts the attention of the “childbirth djinn.” A Polish kindler is tempted by a strange woman who offers him great power at a bloody cost. When an American family vacations in an isolated cabin, the young son encounters deformed “melonheads” in the forest. It’s a merry Christmas in a Greek town until a goblin crashes the party. An expedition into the wilds of India to acquire oddities for a circus leads to a palace of bizarre beings. In Germany, a brother and sister are plagued by a malignant mouselike demon called a drude. And two Hungarian brothers tempt supernatural fate to win the love of a princess.
If you’ve been waiting for new movies from the directors of THE LURE, GOODNIGHT MOMMY, BASKIN and BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, here’s the chance to experience them all in the same place. Producers Tim League and Ant Timpson, having previously schooled us twice about THE ABCs OF DEATH, now bring together perhaps the most eclectic assortment of directing talent in anthology-horror history. THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL has something for every scholar of fear, from the dreamy to the visceral, set in many different eras and shot on eye-filling locations. The directorial styles are as varied as the filmmakers’ home countries – one segment is presented in black-and-white, another as a silent movie – all unified by the focus on human fears and foibles manifested as inhuman creatures. It’s a two-hour round-the-world vacation you’ll want to make part of your summer. – Michael Gingold
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