Scare-A-Thon Totals to Date:
Total Movies Watched: 13
Total First Time Views: 8
Amount raised for ALBANY PARK THEATER PROJECT: $658.45
Total Movies Watched: 13
Total First Time Views: 8
Amount raised for ALBANY PARK THEATER PROJECT: $658.45
The Soul Collector (aka 8) (2019) d. Harold Holscher (South Africa) (100 min) (1st viewing)
“Somewhere in South Africa, 1977,” we are introduced to an unsteady and fragile family unit. William (Garth Breytenbach) moves his lily-white family, wife Sarah (Inge Beckmann) and adopted daughter Mary (Keita Luna) back to the farm he has inherited from his estranged father. Soon after they arrive Mary befriends Lazarus (Tshamano Sebe) a black “sangoma” witch doctor whom she meets in the woods who claims to have been a former employee of William’s father. Despite Sarah’s initial mistrust, Lazarus is eventually allowed to stay in the shack out back (after fixing the electric generator, literally bringing light to their lives). But the kindly figure has a dark past and a heavy load to carry – in his satchel, he totes around the undead figure of his lost child Vuyiswa (Owam Amey) and she is hungry….
