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The Curse of Styria

2014 · 99 min

A slow, intoxicating drift into gothic obsession and quiet dread, where beauty and horror blur like a fever dream.

Tagline
Love requires sacrifice.
Overview
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • identity
  • isolation
  • death
  • love
Places
  • single country house
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour1
Realism4
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
thriller, fantasy, horror, mystery
Directed by
Mark Devendorf, Mauricio Chernovetzky
Written by
Mauricio Chernovetzky, Mark Devendorf
Starring
Stephen Rea, Eleanor Tomlinson, Julia Pietrucha, Jacek Lenartowicz, Marozsán Erika, Székely B. Miklós, Laszlo More, Jules Willcox
Cinematography
Grzegorz Bartoszewicz
Runtime
99 min
Country
Hungary, United States of America
Languages
English

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