Two stills galleries for Ivan Cardoso's Brazilian horror-comedy A Werewolf in Amazonia (Um Lobisomem na Amazônia) have been added to the official website for the movie.
As was previously reported here on ScreenAnarchy, the screenplay for A Werewolf in Amazonia was written by Rubens Francisco Lucchetti, in collaboration with Flávio de Souza and Evandro Mesquita. The movie stars Paul Naschy (a.k.a. Jacinto Molina) as Dr. Moreau/the werewolf, (Evandro) Mesquita as Jean Pierre (a.k.a. 'JP'), Danielle Winits as Natasha, Nuno Leal Maia as Prof. Scott Corman, Tony Tornado as Criminal Investigator Barreto, Karina Bacchi as Samantha, Pedro Neschling as Bruno, Bruno de Luca as Raul, Djin Sganzerla as Carol, Joana Medeiros as Queen Pentesiléia, Guará Rodrigues as Zoltan, Charles Paraventi as Borges, Orlando Drummond as the Public Security Secretary, Sidney Magal as the Inca priest, Julio Medaglia as Hartman, Daiane Amêndola as Alma, and Analú Silveira as Mary.
Here's a synopsis for A Werewolf in Amazonia from the website of the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Festival do Rio) - "Rio Film Festival" for short: "Natasha is a 20-year-old woman who, together with four friends, decides to enter the Amazon forest to partake in a Saint Daime ceremony in one of the local villages. To guide them through the forest they hire the experienced Beto Careca. However, he's not the one who turns up to get them, but Jean Pierre, a strange man who says he is Beto's friend. They are not all convinced, but they all end up accepting his explanation. When night falls the group decides to set up camp in a place called Hell's Opening. There they try the Saint Daime tea made by the guide himself and have a life-changing experience. Not everything is really a hallucination and not everyone will get out alive."
Here's a description of A Werewolf in Amazonia from the website of the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente - "BAFICI" for short): "Um Lobisomem na Amazônia could be a horror movie, but for the fact that its main objective is to amuse. The plot is almost non-existent: a group of friends go into the woods so as to take part in a ritual ceremony by having an exotic infusion. ¶ A marked bogus style imbues the film: fake sets and actresses whose main virtues are in plain sight, all signature style features of its director Ivan Cardoso. His cinema is modeled after American class-B movies, particularly William Castle's, in which the seats in the theater were wired so that the audience could be properly shaken at the right time of the film, or in which the audience was given ten seconds to leave the theater to avoid the fright of their lives. In fact, during the first screening of Um Lobisomem... at the latest Rio Festival, a werewolf showed up unexpectedly amid the audience. A curio: one of the main roles is placed by Tania Boscoli, the daughter of Jardel Filho, the actor in Tierra en Trance and Macunaíma; and Paul Naschy, the Spanish Lon Chaney, has a small part as Dr. Moreau."
A Werewolf in Amazonia trailer (downloadable 12.2 MB WMV file - viewer discretion is advised)
A Werewolf in Amazonia stills galleries (w/ 16 stills)
A Werewolf in Amazonia poster #1 (64 KB JPEG)
A Werewolf in Amazonia poster #2 (168 KB JPEG)
A Werewolf in Amazonia official website
A Werewolf in Amazonia official blog
Diler & Associados: A Werewolf in Amazonia
Rio Film Festival: A Werewolf in Amazonia
BAFICI: A Werewolf in Amazonia
