Description: Brazilian horror films are rare, good ones (outside the strange Coffin Joe series) almost unheard of. As Filhas do Fogo is a story leaning heavily towards the supernatural directed by Walter Hugo Khouri, famous for his wistful and beautifully photographed erotic meditations such as Eros, O Deus do Amor (1981). I think it’s a minor classic with a combination of mood...
"a group of friends who travel out into the country where they find a house of Manson-like satanists who sacrifice virgins to their dark lords"
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspects his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom Hastings. After numerous interrogations, in which they entangle themselves in contradictions, they try to flee, but are soon both caught and brought to trial, he in England, she in France. Only when Catherine keeps on proclaimin...
