#RecomendacionPurga: 5 Macabro hits on Purga

For many years, Macabro has presented independent films that are hard for interested audiences to find outside the genre festival circuit; however, since its launch, Purga.TV has added several films to its catalog that have been part of Macabro's programme in different editions.

Here is a list of five macabre films:

Huset | Dir. Reinert Kiil | Norway | 2016 | 85 min.

If you missed the extraordinary Norwegian film Huset (The House) at Macabro 2017, this is your big chance.

Two European soldiers take a Norwegian soldier prisoner during World War II. They take shelter from the harsh winter in a house in the middle of nowhere, but a strange presence will be waiting for them inside. The film is narrated as a great time loop within a period story, a house possessed by demons and trapped ghosts condemned to repeat their tragic fate.

Recommended for lovers of ghostly narratives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Qci-QhJbw (abre en nueva pestaña)

The House on Pine Street | Dir. Aaron and Austin Keeling | United States |2015

Jennifer is seven months pregnant, and after having a mental breakdown brought on by her impending motherhood, she decides to return to her hometown with her husband. After moving, she begins to notice strange occurrences that lead her to question whether what she's experiencing is real or images created by her own mind.

This haunted and possessed house film was a hit of Macabro's 2015 edition, part of the official selection. Don't miss it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGLiiAjPtg (abre en nueva pestaña)

Wolfcop | Dir. Lowell Dean | Canada | 2014

This film combines action, horror, werewolves, and a whole lot of attitude. Straight from the macabre vault comes one of the festival's biggest hits, part of the official selection for the horror feature film competition in 2015 and one of the most watched and awarded films of that year.

Lou Garou is a disastrous, alcoholic cop in the town of Woodhaven. One day he's assigned the mission of catching a satanic cult. After that, he undergoes terrible changes until he fully transforms into WolfCop, a violent werewolf cop out for revenge. Violence, blood, humor, madness—you can't miss Wolfcop.

A must-see for werewolf lovers, horror comedy, and gore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_P4C8x9S28 (abre en nueva pestaña)

El muerto cuenta su historia | Dir. Fabián Forte | Argentina | 2016 | 84 min.

Ángel, a successful, chauvinistic ad director addicted to women, is enslaved by a confraternity of Celtic goddesses.

El muerto cuenta su historia is one of the most recent films by Fabián Forte, one of the most active directors in the major genre cinema movement in Argentina and Latin America over the last 15 years, and winner of the award for Best Latin American Director at Macabro's XVI edition, where he has presented Mala carne (2003) and Malditos sean (2011).

A must-see for fans of Argentine genre cinema, horror comedy, and trashy cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9U44VyUr7g (abre en nueva pestaña)

Life and Death of a Porn Gang |Dir. Mladen Djordjevic | Serbia | 2009

Marko, after failing as a film director, teams up with Cane, a successful porn film director, and together they form an outlandish filmmaking gang. They travel from town to town staging controversial performances until Marko decides to double down and everything gets complicated.

Life and Death of a Porn Gang was one of the most representative films of Balkan horror that, between 2008 and 2010, showed the world the horrors of Serbian post-war society in a completely divided country with a desensitized society and deep psychological wounds. Life and Death of a Porn Gang is perhaps less well-known than its contemporary A Serbian Film, however, it is a well-made film with striking images that shakes the conscience and the mind in much the same way.

Screened at #Macabro2011, it's a must-see film for strong, seasoned minds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12T9Bwe-2co (abre en nueva pestaña)