Watch Christopher Murray’s anti-colonial Folk-horror Sorcery UK Trailer

Revenge is on the cards in Christopher Murray‘s anti-colonial folk horror in Sorcery. Sovereign Film Distribution are set to release the film in the UK today we get a UK Trailer.

Sorcery is based on true events. Based around the actual 19th century witchcraft trials in Chile. It made it’s UK premiere at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. It did make it’s world premiere in January at Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury nominee, and winner of the 2024 Online Film Critics Award for Best Non-U.S. film.

This film stars Valentina Véliz Caileo as a young girl using otherworldly powers to avenge her father’s brutal death at the hands of colonisers. This is Calileo‘s debut role, gaining fantastic reviews and she’s only 13.

This is not supernatural horror in the traditional sense of things, same as calling it a coming of age story. The tone is eerie, atmospheric and ominous which connects the film with the likes of Under The Skin and The VVitch. Sorcery is set on the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century with an indigenous community beholden to superstitious belief. Rosa (Caileo) a young girl who lives with her father who is killed and seeks revenge, seeking help from the Huilliche sorcerers.

On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.

The film also stars Daniel Antivilo (from acclaimed Chilean shocker Hidden in the Woods), prolific Chilean actor Daniel Muñoz, and Sebastian Hülk (Netflix series All Quiet On The Western Front).

Sorcery will be released by Sovereign Film Distribution in select UK and Irish cinemas from 14th June.