Vigor Mortis

Created by Ricardo Ghiorzi ("The Curse of Sanguanel", "Beyond the Grave"), HISTÓRIAS ESTRANHAS (Stranger Tales) is a suspense/horror/fantasy collection of eight segments produced by independent film companies and directed by the most promising filmmakers of the Brazilian fantastic genre today.

A successful writer experiments with a new creativity-inducing brain chip by implanting it in the mind of a naive country girl, Cristi. The results are better than expected, but Cristi can no longer sleep, eat, smell... or die. What seemed to be a breakthrough in science becomes a horrific nightmare.

Ana Argento, an accomplished cartoon artist yet frustrated with her relationships, meets two other lonely characters with peculiar lives. Daniel Torres is a sociopath and rapist coroner. Tom is a chronic cataleptic who ironically is a life insurance salesman. They could only meet in one place: the morgue.

Vonetta, Helen, and Clayton are back! Inspired by the work of Rubens Francisco Lucchetti, master of Brazilian comics and pulp fiction, these shadowy anti-heroes will have to face new challenges and even the devil himself.

Evanildo is being held at the mental asylum for a very peculiar crime. He claims to hear better than anyone else, yet he appears to be calm and controlled. As he tells how he committed murder, we understand a little bit more about his soul.

Mylene is overwhelmed by desperation and regret. She stares at old photographs and spilled pills. Death stares back.

Documentary about the Brazilian writer Rubens Francisco Luchetti, the pope of the pulp.

A doctor is invited to dinner at the home of her favorite writer, Paula Clossidy, however, the author turns out to be stranger than the stories she publishes. Based on a short story by R. F. Lucchetti.

A collection of three short stories and one poem by Edgar Allan Poe adapted for the screen. Berenice, Morella, The Raven and Ligea like never before seen on film. The movies explore the sensuality, the opium driven dreams and the horror which are the essence of Poe's works. A visually stunning work by the same makers of horror-indie-hit 'Morgue Story'.

The year is 1959. The place, Curitiba, Brazil. Private detective John Clayton is hired by the mysterious and seductive Helen Zola to investigate her husband, a scientist with a secret and abominable past. Against the wishes of his faithful friend Vonetta, Clayton accepts the case and gradually finds himself in the middle of a dark plot involving a library created by the legendary Dr. Lucchetti, which harbors the secrets of monsters, vampires and other macabre creatures.