Mother Nocturna – Release News
Mother Nocturna Rises on VOD This Fall
Italian Psychological Horror Available on Cable & Digital HD
Across the United States and Canada September 27th
Also Available on Prime & Apple TV in Italy and the UK
Los Angeles, CA–Buffalo 8 is honored to launch their fall genre slate with Daniele Campea’s psychological drama Mother Nocturna (Madre Notturna). Campea’s latest feature, inspired by Eurpides’ The Bacchae, tracks a mentally fragile doctor as she attempts to reconnect with her family while resisting calls from the moon. Mother Nocturna will debut on North American Cable VOD and Digital HD September 27th, including Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Cox, Charter and Spectrum. The film will also be available the same day on Prime Video and Apple TV in Campea’s native Italy and the United Kingdom.
Mother Nocturna was directed by Campea from his own original screenplay. The Italian psychological drama made its world premiere at the XX Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest, where Campea took home the award for Best International Feature Film. Mother Nocturna also won Best Feature Film at the Eerie Horror Fest.
The cast is led by Susanna Costaglione, alongside Sofia Ponente, Edoardo Oliva, Elena Battarin, Riccardo Pellegrini, Vincenzo Mambella, and Sveva Colangelo Palombizio.
Of his second feature being released into the world, Campea shared, “I wanted to portray the descent into madness of a woman condemned to isolation, both the physical and psychological, a lifelong solitude in which the pandemic has the role of a detonator. The camera is mainly static, like a painting, giving the viewer the chance to dive into the scene and feel the slow passing of time, surrounded by the obsessive sound of the wind.
In contrast with the image, I wanted the sound to be very mobile, subliminal, nervous, pervasive, with explosions of music. The main themes of the soundtrack are taken from two masterworks of Italian classical music: “La folia” (The Madness) by Arcangelo Corelli, and “Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini.”
Agnese is a wolf biologist who gets back to her husband and daughter after a long hospitalization in a mental institution. The moon has an occult power over Agnese, whose mind begins to disrupt and her body transforms, while the visions of the “God of the woods” intrude on reality. She will deal with the ghosts from the past, locked in a house surrounded by woods, where nightmares take over, and obscure presences become ever more disturbing.
