Surely Satan is behind this…
Novelo Filmes has boarded Cintia Domit Bittar’s Brazilian found-footage horror pic project By Demon’s Will, a Beyond the Window co-prod forum player at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur, Variety reports.
Someone forgot to tell Brazil that the Found-Footage sub-genre is basically dead.
“By Demon’s Will follows Lena, a student finishing her Master’s dissertation about people who believe they are possesed by demons. At a psychiatric clinic, she interviews patients with that profile and ends up meeting Rose, who confesses to have set fire to her family’s house with her parents and brother inside, under the guidance of demons. Investigating Rose’s past, Lena will find a VHS tape containing images recorded at her brother’s birthday party, clues to what actually might have happened.“
The film, currently in development, “intends to explore the found-footage horror sub-genre in a pure way, preserving to the maximum its a esthetic and narrative characteristics, without the use of resources like sound effects, soundtrack or visual and post-production tricks,” defends Novelo Filmes‘ partner and producer Ana Paula Mendes to the site.
“So we want to keep a distance from movies that use found-footage only as a style, and not as a sub-genre with its own characteristics, codes and rules.”
“Main references for By Demon’s Will can be found in disturbing footage from real clinical records. Also, we like ‘Child of Rage’ (pictured), a home-made style film about a psychopathic child from the 1990s, where we can hear the voice off of the psychiatrist interacting and asking the patient questions,” she added.
More as it begins casting.