Magnet Releasing gave Bloody a sneak peak at The Eyes of My Mother, the hauntingly beautiful and shockingly original debut from filmmaker Nicolas Pesce, in theaters and on VOD platforms December 2nd. Our own Fred Topel raved about the film, calling it “disturbed and twisted.”
The film, which features a breakout performance from newcomer Kika Magalhaes, fuses classic horror ingredients with gothic black-and-white imagery.
The clip shows an unconscious man being dragged to a barn where he will chained up and tortured for killing a man’s wife. A little girl watches, scarring her and starting a tragic chain of events.
The Eyes of My Mother is hands down one of the best horror movies of the year, and is most definitely making my own personal top 10.
“In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca’s family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca’s loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form. Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist’s isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca’s world, guiding our imaginations to follow her into peculiar, secret places.”