Magnet Releasing debuted the official trailer for Amelia’s Children, the supernatural horror film starring Brigette Lundy-Paine, Alba Baptista, and Carloto Cotta.

In the film an American and his girlfriend discover he’s the long-lost heir to a Portuguese fortune, with some very strange family ties.

Release Date

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes, Amelia’s Children, an Official Selection of Toronto International Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival, opens in theaters and on VOD March 1st, 2024.

Synopsis

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.

Director Gabriel Abrantes said, “I wanted to make a horror film about family. I wanted it to have the epic family monstrosity of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and was inspired by the autobiographic references in Stoker’s Dracula. What I mean is that the idea that horror was a sort of mirror that enhanced reality by distorting it, was something that I wanted to try doing in this film.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for Amelia’s Children