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Mangroves (2018)

★★★ — Mangroves (2018)

Mangroves is a short supernatural thriller from Trinidadian writer-director-actress Teneille Newallo, who also takes the lead role in front of the camera. Running just fifteen minutes, it draws on Caribbean folklore, specifically the figure of the Soucouyant (a shape-shifting vampire-like spirit rooted in Trinidadian and wider West Indian tradition), to tell a race-against-nightfall story shot on location among the mangrove forests of Trinidad. Short-film production in Trinidad and Tobago operates largely outside any established studio infrastructure, and Newallo appears to have made the film as an independent, low-resource project. It is a modest but committed piece of indigenous genre filmmaking, using local landscape and local mythology rather than borrowing from a Hollywood template.

A-Z World Movie Tour Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 https://youtu.be/fhtM8E620pE?si=Ja0qU1NE_MRRHN58 First review on letterboxd. This was a decent short movie about a Soucouyant. Weirdly it's the 2nd movie about Soucouyants I've seen on this world movie tour. It was overall pretty well made. Worth a watch. It had a good twist at the end

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2018 | Watched: 2025-09-13

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