Shaman, directed by Antonio Negret and written by his brother Daniel — with some additional Negrets working behind the scenes — is a familiar but interesting tale of modern-day demonic possession. Filmed on location in Ecuador, it’s scare fare with a little something extra. Perhaps not enough to entirely succeed overall, but certainly enough to […]
Any seasoned horror fan has seen their share of possession films. From The Exorcist (1973) to The Conjuring (2013), the genre has produced countless iterations of a tried and true format. The subject, usually young or otherwise vulnerable, encounters a demonic entity through direct contact with a cursed artifact, entrance into a forbidden locale, or […]
In Shaman, director Antonio Negret and screenwriter Daniel Negret venture into the terrain of folk horror, possession, and postcolonial views, weaving together a tale that is equal parts exorcism and indictment of spiritual assimilation. The picture, set in rural Ecuador, appears to follow familiar possession genre patterns at first, but it gradually evolves into something […]
There’s a moment in Shaman where silence feels like a scream. A breath held too long, a prayer whispered too late. In Antonio Negret’s deeply unsettling possession thriller, the horror doesn’t just lie in demonic growls or shadows slithering across the walls—it’s in the quiet unraveling of belief. Of a mother’s certainty. Of the fragile […]
Myriad Pictures heads to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) with sales rights to Antonio Negret’s supernatural horror thriller SHAMAN and will launch talks this week. The US-Ecuadorian co-production from Epopeya Films, Macumba Films, and Night Tree stars Sara Canning and Daniel Gillies from “The Vampire Diaries”, Jett Klyne from DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF […]