Tropical SOV is a Brazilian anthology that brings together 23 independent filmmakers who bring to life 21 hilarious, strange and bizarre stories that could only happen in Brazil. From brains that produce cocaine to the incredible human videocassette, including the secrets of synthetic meat, baldness cures, castration of rapists, nihilistic fruits, magical sweets and the poop king of Evangelistão.
17 self-taught directors come together to give new meaning to their work in the form of 20 new episodes that are part of the feature film "Noisy Silencers", an extrasensory video experience that takes us on a journey through the history of cinema, from the 1880s to the present in a tangle of deliriums of the seventh art.
In 1992, a group of teenagers began recording horror films with VHS cameras in Palmitos, in the west of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Led by Santa Catarina director Petter Baiestorf, the production company came to be called Canibal Filmes. Far from large urban centers and in times of stagnation in Brazilian cinema, the group learned in practice how to make low-budget cinema. The films found their own way of financing and showing to the public. Through reports, photographs, documents and videos, the documentary covers Canibal's early years, retracing the group's efforts and challenges in making independent cinema in a region with no cinematic tradition.
2020, Brazil is ruled by a military crentecracy in alliance with the great agribusiness industry and the armament industry. Free thinking has become a major barrier to the Brazilian government. Anarchists, teachers, artists, small organic farmers, independent publishers and freethinkers have become the new Witches of the 21st Century and are the main targets of this crusade against wisdom. Thus, the Brazilian government created small groups of catechists who visit infidels who dare to think freely, with the mission of purifying their souls.
An oral record with a little history of the Kaingang Nation told by the Kófas of the Guarita indigenous tribe.
A Cor que Caiu do Espaço (2016) is freely based on the text "The Color Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft. Filmed as if it were a delirious nightmare, Color that Fell from Space is a short with independent production of Baiestorf and Silvia Prado that integrated the collective long "13 Stories Strangers". Experimentalism.
Zombies, beautiful dead girls, newly-dead and a wide variety of colorful and slimy undead invade the West of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Guts roll while "yerba mate" Cronenberg is consumed by the farmers. But the zombies aren't the biggest problem when all the humans are sadistic and selfish.
It was supposed to be a romantic afternoon on a “deserted” island in the Uruguay River, but a couple of wealthy ecologists had a bad luck because they ended up finding not love and peace, but hungry zombies wanting guts and brains under the command of a priestess. diabolical, and this couple will have to fight for their survival in that place. Parallel to this, a serial killer dressed as an old lady drags a "blonde" from the city to her isolated shed to serve as a victim in her sadistic tortures.
The son of a businessman and his bodyguard are kidnapped by a group of terrorists. With the ransom money they hope to buy more weapons and thus finance the revolution. One of the terrorists, a torturing doctor, decides to use his bodyguard to perform his sexual activities and shoot a snuff-movie. The problems for the group begin when the businessman refuses to pay for his son's life, claiming that he is a bloody drug addict and is worthless. Eliminating the hostage may not be such a simple solution, especially when he refuses to die.
Dr. Karloff prisons an alien from the Leguminous Planet and calls his friend Dr. Marins to help him in his experiences, because the Leguminous Monster is an anarchist intellectual full of hate against the human beings. While the scientists discuss about the monster, Caquinha is convinced for him to let him go. Done that, the Monster kills the scientists and kills everyone he finds in his way.
The day after the carnage initiated by the Martian scientist, a fleet of spacecraft from Mars is called upon to invade Earth, but Dr. Rottenberg's plans are hampered by two NASA officials, Detective Johnson and Dr. Nagib, called in to investigate. the case.
Dr. Rottenberg, the greatest Martian scientist, comes to Planet Earth to make preparations for a wild invasion involving re-animated Earth bodies, Martian zombies and teenagers playing in the woods. Criaturas Hediondas is one of the first Brazilian Shot On Video (SOV) to have national distribution via VHS tapes that were marketed in stands at grindcore, death metal and punks shows, becoming a reference (at the time) in the national underground. The video was filmed with a VHS camera and mounted from video to video, in an analog way.