Witches

The Republic of the Congo in Africa, land where babies get raped by grown men because shamans tell them it is the only way to 'cure' themselves of HIV, is now practicing 'witch hunts' against young adolescent girls. Women's eNews reports that one girl, Chance Chubaka, was accused of being a witch after her father and grandfather died.

"Her uncle agreed. He tied her hands together with plastic bags and burned them, a common technique in the Democratic Republic of Congo to illicit confessions from children tagged as witches. The scars on Chance's hands remain. Her uncle also burned her legs, she says, and finally kicked her out of the house..."

Manhater is a new horror film with with a decidedly female agenda starring Emelle, John F. Henry, Ariel X, Alessandra Assaf, Brendan Connor, and Techiera Roberts.

The trailer shows us a really fun-looking low budget horror movie about an abused woman who gets her revenge on evil ex boyfriends by morphing into a demoness who seeks them out and destroys them. Cliche? A bit, and while we can recognize the universal mythology of 'woman-as-soul-destroyer' once she takes control of her sexuality, we get a cool witch who makes postions to help take the edge off. And also, how can you hate something called 'Manhater'? Watch the trailer...

Jace Anderson is one of the most successful female horror screenwriter in the horror industry at the present moment. Besides being one of the writers behind the June 6^th theatrical release of Dario Argento’s latest horror film Mother of Tears (the third in his 'witchy' trilogy along with Suspiria and Inferno), she's also penned Tobe’s Hooper’s The Toolbox Murders and Mortuary, and the upcoming Autopsy, with co-writer Adam Geirasch.

Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni began her work as an actress in Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2, and from there went on to star in Argento’s Opera and Phantom of the Opera, as well as Bava's Ghost Son. Mother of Tears is her third paring with Argento and is released at the same time her short film The Dirt is making its way around horror film festivals. Directed by Simona and Claudio Simonetti (Claudio is the lead musician of Goblin, from whom Argento likes to get his soundtrack music), The Dirt is a strange and frightening macabre story of one woman’s obsessive nature. Coralina and Jace share some insight into their careers and especially on the release of their newest film Mother of Tears...