Medusa2021
Directed by Anita Rocha da Silveira
🏆 10 wins & 14 nominations
The premise
By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.
Horror Vault's take
In a Brazil gripped by evangelical fervour, Mari leads a double life — saccharine worship songs by day, masked vigilante violence by night. When a street attack leaves her disfigured and cast out from the world she helped police, she's forced to see her tight-knit religious community from the outside for the first time. Director Anita Rocha da Silveira wraps biting political commentary in vivid, unsettling imagery that lingers long after the credits roll. Equal parts cult film and feminist allegory, Medusa is a distinctly Brazilian horror that resists easy categorisation.
Content: Violence Against Women, Religious Extremism And Fanaticism, Scenes Of Disfigurement, Vigilante Assault
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