Amelia's Children | engl. OV & port. OmU

After years of searching, Edward finds his biological mother and his twin brother in Portugal. He finally gets answers to the questions of where he comes from and who he is. But it soon becomes clear that there are secrets that are better left hidden. But what if the nightmare is already inevitable?

Thanks to a DNA test, Edward, who grew up in an orphanage, finally finds his biological family and, together with his girlfriend Ryley, accepts their invitation to the rural seclusion of Portugal. The huge manor house in which his ailing old mother and twin brother live turns out to be a dark labyrinth in which the past never comes to rest. But only Ryley seems to notice the increasingly bizarre behavior of Edward's relatives and their almost manic cheerfulness. Troubled, she searches for answers and soon discovers long-buried secrets in the whispered stories of the villagers.
Director Gabriel Abrantes has studied his role models closely. In this atmospheric homage to classic European genre cinema, he dispenses with cheap special effects and uses the sophisticated interplay between camera, lighting and bloody, grotesque masks to create a shocker that literally gets under your skin.