KAT - The Widow's Hand

THE WIDOW'S HAND
 

… is a trilogy of surrealistic horror shorts that reimagine three well-known fairy tales: Sleeping Beauty, Hansel & Gretel, and Bluebeard. It explores the horrific themes of rape, child abandonment, and domestic violence present in the original works but voiced from a modern female perspective. 

As an alternative collection of characters and outcomes within a common deck, each story is ruled by one of the Widow’s children, known as the Fates: Hysteria (Sister of Madness), Phantasma (Sister of Vengeance), and Inferna (Sister of Mercy).

 
 

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I.HYSTERIA

( S I S T E R O F M A D N E S S )

 
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“HYSTERIA” is an evolving nightmare . . . blurring real with imagined horrors, and defining the emotional experience of sexual brutality dismissed in the original “Sleeping Beauty.” 

 

SCREENINGS


Feb 15, 2024: HYSTERIA will kick off the new year with Dimensions Film Festival, “celebrating underground horror, scifi, and oddball films from both local and international filmmakers. This year’s focus—monsters! Featuring the world premiere of Return of the Näcken.”


Jan 11-13, 2019: HYSTERIA will kick off the new year with Medusa Underground Film Festival, a celebration of women who make weird movies. As part of the festival opener, it will screen on January 11 at 8pm.


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Dec 13, 2018: HYSTERIA wraps up 2018 in Denver at DUFF! “Inspired by the Sunday film parlors organized by Colorado's own Avant Garde filmmaker and film educator Stan Brakhage, DUFF aims to preserve Colorado's legacy of experimental filmmaking by exposing new audiences to classic and contemporary Avant Garde cinema, as well as new independent short and features in all genres.” Need we say more?


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Nov 29-Dec 1, 2018: HYSTERIA will be part of Videodrunk 2018! We cannot imagine a better Canadian premiere than a festival that supports truly alternative cinema - and does not shy away from, well, anything. Videodrunk is a punk rock festival for film which speaks to the heart of this project . HYSTERIA will play Saturday, Dec 1, 9pm.


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Nov 9- 10, 2018: We are super excited to have been accepted into the Ax Wound Film Festival!! This is all about women in horror - or rather, who make horror. Ax Wound was recently ranked among the top 30 “Bloody Best Genre Fests” in the world. The full article can be found HERE ; link to the festival is above. HYSTERIA is screening on November 10.


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Oct 06, 2018: HYSTERIA will have its world premiere at the Psychedelic Film and Music Festival! We are thrilled to kick off the film’s journey into the world with a bunch of other weirdos (we hope!) . Details can be found HERE. (Block 4)



II. PHANTASMA

( S I S T E R O F V E n G E A N C E )


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“PHANTASMA” is the savage tale of Hansel & Gretel - perishing in the woods as intended, then returning undead for their revenge. Bleeding flowers and gummy maggots infest the real with the imaginary for a journey marred by sin.

STATUS: In DEVELOPMENT


III. INFERNA

( S I S T E R O F M E R C Y )

 
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“INFERNA” is the final chapter in The Widow’s Hand trilogy; it is the deconstruction of time and space - an unfavorable mutation of reality - in which Bluebeard is trapped without a key.