ABSTRACT
This article aims to analize the Brazilian horror film Trilogy of Terror (1968)TRILOGIA de terror. Direção de Ozualdo Candeias, Luís Sérgio Person e José Mojica Marins. São Paulo: Produção Nacional de Filmes Ltda. (PNF); Produções Galasy Ltda.; Companhia Cinematográfica Franco-Brasileira, 1968. 35 mm (101 min), BP. 3 episódios., which brought together three of the most distinguished São Paulo directors at the time: José Mojica Marins, Ozualdo Candeias, and Luís Sérgio Person. To carry out our analysis, we will articulate the concepts of folk horror (Scovel, 2017)SCOVEL, A. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. with discussions specific to Brazilian cinema, particularly to the tensions between rural and urban areas (Bernardet, 1980;BERNARDET, J.-C. A cidade e o campo: notas iniciais sobre a relação entre a cidade e o campo no cinema brasileiro. In: ANDRADE, R. (ed.). Cinema brasileiro: 8 estudos. Rio de Janeiro: Embrafilme: Funarte, 1980. p. 139-145. Tolentino, 2001TOLENTINO, C. A. F. O rural no cinema brasileiro. São Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2001.), to understand what we consider to be a tension between such instances in Trilogy of Terror – observing the liminality of cinematographic spaces/genres, the mix of religious references, the political allegory of Brazil and the passage from rural to urban setting in Brazilian horror films.
KEYWORDS:
Brazilian cinema; Horror; Urbanization; José Mojica Marins; Ozualdo Candeias; Luís Sérgio Person