Haitian cinema is small in output but striking in ambition, often rooted in the island's African spiritual traditions and the legacy of political upheaval. Papa Machete, a short documentary about a master of the ancient Haitian martial art tire machèt, is a good example of that sensibility at work. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
There is a particular kind of horror film that earns its chills not from monsters in the traditional sense but from the unsettling suggestion that the world contains systems of belief and power that Western rationalism simply cannot account for. The Serpent and the Rainbow, released in 1988 by Universal
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★★★½ — Papa Machete (2014)
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