Brazilian Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

<b>Brazil's pressing socio-political questions as seen through the country's horror-film-influenced audio-visual production between 2008 and 2022.</b><br><br><br>Since the 2008 release of <i>Embodiment of Evil</i> the third instalment in the Coffin Joe trilogy which began with <i>At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul</i> Brazil's audiovisual industry has been producing an increasing number of unsettling often violent and frequently dystopian films reflecting the wide-ranging social cultural environmental and economic problems the country is facing.<br><br>This edited volume by scholars from Brazil the United Kingdom and the United States discusses a broad selection of Brazilian audio-visual productions released between 2008 and 2022 which through their use of aesthetic and narrative devices borrowed from horror cinema shed light on the country's pressing socio-political questions. Mostly by first-time directors these productions bear witness to a second 'Golden Age' of Brazilian horror cinema (reflected in new specialised festivals such as CineFantasy RioFan CRASH and Fantaspoa) and ultimately serve to illustrate in audio-visual form the tensions at the heart of Brazilian society in the second decade of the twenty-first century.