30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Italian premiere

Even the Film Festival della Lessinia has had its scandals. During the second edition, in 1996, it screened this horror-splatter film, which provoked strong protests at the home of the artistic director at the time. The plot is that of a classic horror fil, with multiples tips of the hat to Sam Raimi. A promising weekend in nature trasforms into a nightmare of green monters, forest witches, and cursed sites. The film quickly became a cult favourite among trash lovers; the special effects using silicone and paint stop at nothing and show the blows of hostile nature in a battle between the ancestral world and the reckless human invaders who have reawakened it. The setting is the luch Giazza forest that we have often admired in its more poetic formi in past seasins of the Festival. This time it shows us its darker side.