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From Coffin Joe’s blasphemous birth in the 1960s to today’s socially charged nightmares, Brazilian horror has repeatedly repurposed global genre tropes to confront religion, patriarchy, class and power in ways that are vivid, inventive and unmistakably local.
By Anton Bitel
By Chloe Walker
By Rory Doherty
By Alex Ramon
By Brogan Morris
By Alex Davidson, Grace Barber-Plentie and others
By Brogan Morris
By Ali Lalfam
By Christina Newland
By Rory Doherty
By Chloe Walker
By David Parkinson
By Miriam Balanescu
By Bob Mastrangelo
By Leigh Singer
By Pamela Hutchinson
By Ginette Vincendeau
By David Parkinson
By Jasper Sharp
By David Parkinson
By Chantelle Lavel Boyea, Josephine Botting and others
By Michael Brooke
By Michael Ewins
By John Berra
By Georgina Guthrie
By Pamela Hutchinson
By Rory Doherty
By Anton Bitel
By Thomas Flew, Beatrice Loayza and others
