Blood Curse (film)

Xavier Oliveira Monteiro (Adriano Luz) is a botanical researcher and university professor in the same area. He lives with his wife, children and a baby grandson in an apartment in the center of Lisbon. One day, Xavier receives news of the death of his uncle, owner of a family manor in a village in the municipality of Seia. Because he is the only legitimate heir, he becomes the owner of that same property. When he wanted to publish a study on the flora of Beira Interior, he decided to move with his family to the same house. Upon arriving at the village, he becomes friends with the locals, who he perceives to be very superstitious and believers in matters related to the occult. At first Xavier tries to abstract himself from that kind of thoughts, but strange events with no logical explanation begin to occur to him, as well as to his family; hitting right with some local beliefs. For that very reason, Xavier then decides to go after the rural beliefs of his new land to find some explanation for what is happening to him. It is there that Vicente, a former village priest (José Pinto) reveals to him something dark and macabre that happened in the past, and which gave rise to a terrible curse that plagues the village and which is directly related to Xavier and his family.

It won the 2006 Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Film.[1]

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