By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’s both a frightening folk-horror feature and a compelling family drama.
Shudder will debut MOTHER OF FLIES on January 23. The latest feature from the Adams Family, creators of WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS, HELL HOLE and HELLBENDER, it was written and directed by John Adams, Zelda Adams and Toby Poser, who also star. Among other accolades, it’s the first American movie to have won the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film at the Fantasia International Film Festival. The synopsis: “Mickey [Zelda Adams] faces a deadly diagnosis, but she isn’t ready to die yet. Heading into the woods with her father [John Adams], she seeks dark magic at the hands of a mysterious recluse named Solveig [Poser], who has an intimate relationship with death and roots that go deep in the land. For three days, Mickey endures Solveig’s extreme rituals of death magic. But every cure has its cost, and every curse is another’s gift. As buried secrets claw their way to the surface, the veil between the living and the dead begins to unravel, and Mickey finds herself facing dark truths that only the dead and the dying can know.” See our review of MOTHER OF FLIES here.
