Stars: Petronella Tshuma, Kwande Nkosi, Dawid Minnaar, Harriet Manamela, Mandla Shongwe, Yule Masiteng, Coco Merckel, Leiden Colbet, Natasja Jacobs | Written by Richard Kunzmann, Jerome Pikwane | Directed by Jerome Pikwane
The Tokoloshe is a South African horror flick written by Richard Kunzmann and Jerome Pikwane, the latter of whom directs. A slow-building supernatural horror film that introduces us to Busi (Petronella Tshuma), a woman who starts a job as a cleaner at a hospital in Johannesburg. She finds a young girl in the hospital who is under the belief that she is being haunted by a supernatural evil, and Busi finds herself in a battle to save the young girl from the monster as well as her own journey into facing her own demons.
I was impressed with the building tension and creepiness of this film, with the locations and performances really helping to deliver something that manages to slither under...
The Tokoloshe is a South African horror flick written by Richard Kunzmann and Jerome Pikwane, the latter of whom directs. A slow-building supernatural horror film that introduces us to Busi (Petronella Tshuma), a woman who starts a job as a cleaner at a hospital in Johannesburg. She finds a young girl in the hospital who is under the belief that she is being haunted by a supernatural evil, and Busi finds herself in a battle to save the young girl from the monster as well as her own journey into facing her own demons.
I was impressed with the building tension and creepiness of this film, with the locations and performances really helping to deliver something that manages to slither under...
- 1/21/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
I'm fascinated by other cultures' mythologies of monsters: the boogeymen, the witches, demons of the air and sea, whatever lurks in the closets or under the beds or in the forests and byways to haunt and harm. According to the mythology of the Zulu and Xhose peoples, the tokoloshe is a evil spirit said to harm children and those alone, especially those who sleep on the floor. In his first foray into filmmaking, director and writer Jerome Pikwane takes this evil spirit and modernizes it in The Tokoloshe to explore themes of loneliness and family in both rural and urban contemporary South Africa. It's a slow-burn horror that punctuates moments of mythological terror with moments of real terrors that women must face alone in a...
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- 12/3/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Most Frightening Film Of 2019, The Tokoloshe Jerome Pikwane’s bloodcurdling ode to the mythological creature The Tokoloshe set to spook audiences this December. Uncork’d Entertainment will release The Tokoloshe, director Jerome Pikwane’s frightening fictional account of the mythological creature, on digital platforms and disc 12/3. Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions, lands …
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- 11/23/2019
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Determined to save up enough money to reunite with her sister, a cleaner at a hospital faces the obstacles of the building's sadistic manager and the creature that lurks within its halls in Jerome Pikwane’s The Tokoloshe. With the new horror film coming to digital platforms and physical media on December 3rd from Uncork’d Entertainment, we've been provided with an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers!
Busi (Petronella Tshuma) discovers a brutal surprise waiting for her behind a closed door in our exclusive clip from The Tokoloshe, and we also have release details and a trailer for the upcoming film:
"Jerome Pikwane’s bloodcurdling ode to the mythological creature The Tokoloshe set to spook audiences this December.
Uncork’d Entertainment will release The Tokoloshe, director Jerome Pikwane’s frightening fictional account of the mythological creature, on digital platforms and disc 12/3.
Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions,...
Busi (Petronella Tshuma) discovers a brutal surprise waiting for her behind a closed door in our exclusive clip from The Tokoloshe, and we also have release details and a trailer for the upcoming film:
"Jerome Pikwane’s bloodcurdling ode to the mythological creature The Tokoloshe set to spook audiences this December.
Uncork’d Entertainment will release The Tokoloshe, director Jerome Pikwane’s frightening fictional account of the mythological creature, on digital platforms and disc 12/3.
Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions,...
- 11/22/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In his second year at the helm as artistic director of the Africa Intl. Film Festival (Afriff), Newton Aduaka said his goal when curating this year’s edition, which unspools Nov. 11-18 in Lagos, was “to present a rigorously selected program with an international gaze.”
It’s an acknowledgment by the Paris-based filmmaker, who was born in Lagos but left more than 30 years ago, that the inward-looking Nigerian industry stands to benefit from exposure to “a wider international aesthetic of filmmaking.” Said Aduaka, “There has to be room for other kinds of cinema, other kinds of voices.”
Eight years after Afriff’s founding, the festival will present more than 140 features, shorts, documentaries and animated films from across Africa and the rest of the world. For Nigerian filmmakers, said Aduaka, the selection presents an opportunity to “shift the gaze” away from cinema as a means of popular entertainment – as evidenced by...
It’s an acknowledgment by the Paris-based filmmaker, who was born in Lagos but left more than 30 years ago, that the inward-looking Nigerian industry stands to benefit from exposure to “a wider international aesthetic of filmmaking.” Said Aduaka, “There has to be room for other kinds of cinema, other kinds of voices.”
Eight years after Afriff’s founding, the festival will present more than 140 features, shorts, documentaries and animated films from across Africa and the rest of the world. For Nigerian filmmakers, said Aduaka, the selection presents an opportunity to “shift the gaze” away from cinema as a means of popular entertainment – as evidenced by...
- 11/8/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Tokoloshe with the director Jerome Pikwane.
Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions, lands a job as a cleaner at a rundown hospital in the heart of Johannesburg. Desperate for the money so she can bring her younger sister to Johannesburg, she must cope despite the predatory and corrupt hospital manager. When Busi discovers an abandoned young girl in the hospital, who believes she is tormented by a supernatural force, Busi must face her own demons from her past in order to save the child from the abusive monster that pursues them both relentlessly.
Catch The Tokoloshe at Arrow Video Frightfest
23rd to 27th August 2018
Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7Na.
Programme and tickets are available at
http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2018Films/frightfest-schedule-2018.html
www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html...
Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions, lands a job as a cleaner at a rundown hospital in the heart of Johannesburg. Desperate for the money so she can bring her younger sister to Johannesburg, she must cope despite the predatory and corrupt hospital manager. When Busi discovers an abandoned young girl in the hospital, who believes she is tormented by a supernatural force, Busi must face her own demons from her past in order to save the child from the abusive monster that pursues them both relentlessly.
Catch The Tokoloshe at Arrow Video Frightfest
23rd to 27th August 2018
Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7Na.
Programme and tickets are available at
http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2018Films/frightfest-schedule-2018.html
www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html...
- 8/21/2018
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Durban — The Durban Int’l. Film Festival opened Thursday night with a celebration of South African womanhood and a commitment to diversity in film, even as it mourned the passing of a festival icon and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela.
The 39th edition opened with Jerome Pikwane’s “The Tokoloshe,” a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life.
In prepared remarks, delivered by a colleague at Thursday’s opening ceremony because she wasn’t able to attend, Diff manager Chipo Zhou described the movie as a parable of womanhood in a country plagued by sexual violence.
“It is a horror film…unveiling the menace that is our everyday burden as women in this country,” she said, adding more hopefully that the movie “sets the scene for a...
The 39th edition opened with Jerome Pikwane’s “The Tokoloshe,” a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life.
In prepared remarks, delivered by a colleague at Thursday’s opening ceremony because she wasn’t able to attend, Diff manager Chipo Zhou described the movie as a parable of womanhood in a country plagued by sexual violence.
“It is a horror film…unveiling the menace that is our everyday burden as women in this country,” she said, adding more hopefully that the movie “sets the scene for a...
- 7/19/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
It causes mysterious illnesses, haunts children’s nightmares, and provides regular fodder for South African tabloid scribes. (Typical headline: “Tokoloshe Made Me A Sex Slave.”) Now the diminutive, mischievous, sinister spirit known as the tokoloshe is making the leap from Zulu myth to the big screen in director Jerome Pikwane’s feature debut, which opens the Durban Int’l. Film Festival July 19.
“The Tokoloshe” is a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner, Busi (Petronella Tshuma), who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life. Setting it against the harrowing backdrop of child abuse and sexual violence in South Africa, Pikwane – who co-wrote the script with novelist Richard Kunzmann – offers a film that, as with so many of the best horror flicks, is equal parts scarer and social commentary.
“Originally, we were going to do a straight out horror film—you know,...
“The Tokoloshe” is a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner, Busi (Petronella Tshuma), who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life. Setting it against the harrowing backdrop of child abuse and sexual violence in South Africa, Pikwane – who co-wrote the script with novelist Richard Kunzmann – offers a film that, as with so many of the best horror flicks, is equal parts scarer and social commentary.
“Originally, we were going to do a straight out horror film—you know,...
- 7/18/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Now in its 19th year, Arrow Video FrightFest 2018 has announced a jam-packed lineup of genre screenings, including the UK premiere of The Ranger, the world premiere of Heretiks, the raved-about Anna and the Apocalypse, and much more:
Press Release: Remaining in the heart of London’s West End for its 19th edition, the world renowned horror and fantasy film festival turbo-charges into the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from Aug 23 - Aug 27 2018. Hosting a record-breaking seventy films, embracing eighteen countries and spanning six continents, this year’s line-up is a true celebration of the genre’s global popularity. The five-day fear-a-thon includes 20 World, 17 European and 22 UK Premieres.
The opening night attraction is the UK premiere of The Ranger. Jenn Wexler’s impressive directorial debut feature is an explosive, post-modern slasher, with a kick-ass punk soundtrack and a knock-out lead performance from Chloe Levin (The Transfiguration). Wexler, the...
Press Release: Remaining in the heart of London’s West End for its 19th edition, the world renowned horror and fantasy film festival turbo-charges into the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from Aug 23 - Aug 27 2018. Hosting a record-breaking seventy films, embracing eighteen countries and spanning six continents, this year’s line-up is a true celebration of the genre’s global popularity. The five-day fear-a-thon includes 20 World, 17 European and 22 UK Premieres.
The opening night attraction is the UK premiere of The Ranger. Jenn Wexler’s impressive directorial debut feature is an explosive, post-modern slasher, with a kick-ass punk soundtrack and a knock-out lead performance from Chloe Levin (The Transfiguration). Wexler, the...
- 7/2/2018
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
UK premiere of Jenn Wexler’s punk rock-soundtracked slasher to open the festival.
FrightFest, the annual UK horror and fantasy film festival held in London, has unveiled the lineup for its 19th edition this summer (August 23-27).
The festival, which takes place this year at Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema, will open with the UK premiere of punk rock-soundtracked slasher The Ranger.
It is the directorial debut of Jenn Wexler, who will be the first female director to open FrightFest and will be in attendance at the event. The film premiered at SXSW earlier this year.
Closing...
FrightFest, the annual UK horror and fantasy film festival held in London, has unveiled the lineup for its 19th edition this summer (August 23-27).
The festival, which takes place this year at Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema, will open with the UK premiere of punk rock-soundtracked slasher The Ranger.
It is the directorial debut of Jenn Wexler, who will be the first female director to open FrightFest and will be in attendance at the event. The film premiered at SXSW earlier this year.
Closing...
- 6/28/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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