After quietly building up word of mouth online and at various European festivals in early 2017, the debut feature of Portuguese director, producer and writer Jose Pedro Lopes was given its UK premiere at the inaugural Triple Six Horror Festival. A monochrome nightmare about a Portuguese suicide forest and its depressed inhabitants, Lopes’ film walks a very thin line between immense despair and black comedy. It also manages to be one of the most interesting and challenging horror films since Ducournau’s Raw. (more…)