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London Voodoo

Robert PRATTEN

UK2004 98min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Lincoln, who wants to receive recognition, and his gorgeous wife Sara move to London for his work. His wife finds a corpse in the basement of her new house and the dead takes her soul. Lincoln is pressed hard with work and the changes in his wife. A housemaid tempts him deliberately. The story develops with supporting actors who know the secrets of Sara's soul. As you can tell from the subject, the film shows the incantations of a minority and the ceremony of a group, but this film is not smeared with blood. On the contrary, it is closer to a psychological thriller, which is a common genre among indie films. The film uses the material where the end of the marriage gains the sympathy of many people. This film challenges new but familiar horror movies through a familiar material using the psychological description of Hitchcock, such as the fear about the white house in Pacific Heights and the definition of love in Rosemary’s Baby. In particular, it shows incidental stories evenly and a narrative structure where the stories are drawn to the apex. The existing film is restricted to a beautiful housemaid and a tyrannical psycho or ghost, but this film deals with the vague fear and curiosity about novelty, the desire and ambition for success. The struggle for love between the housemaid and the wife is recreated as a proposition that love is a sacrifice. The appropriate props and variety of cues throughout the entire film provides amusement.

Diretor

Robert PRATTEN

London Voodoo is Robert PRATTEN;s debut feature film. Robert started in film making 5 years ago when he started at the London Film School in Covent Garden, London, England. He has directed several short films and worked in various other film crew roles though primarily as director of photography.