{"id":610678,"date":"2024-02-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-gabriel-abrantes-pulls-a-horror-prank\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T22:00:00","slug":"watch-gabriel-abrantes-pulls-a-horror-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-gabriel-abrantes-pulls-a-horror-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gabriel Abrantes Pulls a Horror Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2cdbd9223e6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2cdbd9223e6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-gabriel-abrantes-pulls-a-horror-prank\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Gabriel_Abrantes_Pulls_a_Horror_Prank%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Gabriel Abrantes Pulls a Horror Prank&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-gabriel-abrantes-pulls-a-horror-prank\/#%E2%80%9CGabriel_Abrantes_Pulls_a_Horror_Prank%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Gabriel Abrantes Pulls a Horror Prank&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Gabriel_Abrantes_Pulls_a_Horror_Prank%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Gabriel Abrantes Pulls a Horror Prank&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGabriel_Abrantes_Pulls_a_Horror_Prank%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Gabriel Abrantes Pulls a Horror Prank&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A fitfully kooky 23andMe-gone-wrong scary story, \u201cAmelia\u2019s Children\u201d follows an American couple in Portugal as they become entwined in an ancient bloodline of witchcraft. The horror project makes for an intriguing follow-up to Lisbon-based filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes\u2019 much lighter 2018 feature \u201cDiamantino\u201d (that one co-directed with Daniel Schmidt), which lampooned soccer icon Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s patriotic celebrity with giant puppy dog daydream sequences and a prankish but tender queer romance. In \u201cDiamantino,\u201d the pair crafted a fantasia chockful of big, goofy internet-age signifiers without betraying a certain protective instinct for its characters, inventing an entirely original tone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    By comparison, \u201cAmelia\u2019s Children\u201d stays within more familiar territory. Here, Abrantes once again casts Carloto Cotta, this time playing a pensive American musician named Edward. After a DNA-testing service tracks down the biological family he was kidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed from as an infant, the 30-something and his devoted girfriend, Ryley (Brigette Lundy-Paine), jet to Portugal to visit a locally notorious multi-million-dollar estate. There lives Edward\u2019s decrepit mother, Amelia (Anabela Moreira), and his lithe, long-haired twin brother, Manuel (also Cotta, sporting a cryptic smile). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Even with his dual roles, Cotta soon cedes lead status to Lundy-Paine, whose unease becomes the perspective we see Edward\u2019s family through. Initially supportive of the homecoming, Ryley grows wary as her boyfriend\u2019s family closes ranks, clearly reluctant to allow him to return to the States. Lundy-Paine gives acute feeling to their character\u2019s eroding patience. Then Abrantes unleashes the works on them. Also serving as his own composer, the filmmaker puts together one impressively calibrated build after another for Lundy-Paine to navigate: loud nightmare sequences, cheeky jump scares and a bona fide movie monster in Amelia, who achieves just the right WTF effect to be both instantly repelling while stirring concern. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Though in her 40s, Moreira is playing much, much older, hobbling around under pounds of prosthetics to convey decades of iffy cosmetic surgeries and wear-and-tear. A puttering mass of constipated plastic, it\u2019s wonderfully difficult to decipher how Amelia even feels about her scene partners. Hostile? Compassionate? Aroused? <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Abrantes has a blast deploying the matriarch scene to scene, but his penchant for mischief ends up betraying him later on. As Edward grows distant from Ryley and both become taken by hallucinations, the film suddenly offers a clear-eyed explanation of the depraved acts that prop up the bloodline. It\u2019s a less galling reveal than it could be and, from there, the intrigue ends. A climactic tilt into a fight for survival remains sharply rendered by Abrantes, but it unfolds towards a forecast destination. The film\u2019s evocative edge is gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But even as \u201cAmelia\u2019s Children\u201d seems more ordinary by its conclusion, Cotta\u2019s dazed performances give it a special center. As he did in \u201cDiamantino,\u201d the actor is playing a naive but emotionally wounded himbo in Edward, whose dopiness is darkly reflected in his twin\u2019s one-dimensional mama\u2019s boy attachment. Cotta has a face fit for farce, with puzzled, wide eyes that Abrantes takes great pleasure in pulling the wool over. It\u2019s enough fun just to see him get taken for a ride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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