Actors rehearsing at the mysterious Heissenhoff theatre find themselves being stalked by a masked killer, and realise that they are to be the sacrifices in an elaborately planned occult ritual.
Grimmfest Says: Not to be confused with Jim Van Bebber’s cult vigilante movie of the same name, Dawid Torrone’s dazzling, dynamic and delirious debut offers a loving and literate homage to the classic era of the giallo, with respectful nods to Argento, Soavi, and the Bavas, but with a flamboyant flair entirely his own. A stylish, sensory overload of stalk-and-slash and satanic invocation, in which the ritualistic nature of performance and the performative nature of ritual collide in savage fashion, the film delivers its gruesome grand guignol with a side-order of sly satire in its deft depiction of directorial self-delusion, actorly pretension and vanity, as it builds inexorably to an hallucinogenic and horrifying climax.