Trivia

Peter Bergendy's 'Post Mortem' (2020) was Hungary's official entry for the Oscars® in 2022. The film was screened on 50 international film festivals, selected for 24 main official competitions, and won 29 awards.

'Post Mortem' was the best-selling Hungarian movie around the world in 2021. Its distribution rights were purchased for nearly 140 countries from Great Britain to India, the Americas to Japan.

Although people are trying to pass this movie off as the first Hungarian horror flick, it's not. That description goes to Legyen világosság from 1996.

Toronto After Dark 2021: "POST MORTEM is definitely one of the spookiest films in the Toronto After Dark lineup this year!"

Grimmfest Easter 2022 about 'Post Mortem': "POST MORTEM is a captivating and unique film that manages to encompass many themes such as post war trauma, the aftermath of pandemic and issue around mortality. Although it is set in 1918 it's clearly a reflection on our recent times as it centers on the Spanish Flu outbreak just after WW1. But this movie also creates a world of its own, our main character, a WW1 survivor and photographer of the dead, arrives at a peasant village with a task to record on camera the many victims of the recent pandemic, who cannot be buried because of the frozen ground. This eerie set up brings a sense of growing dread as the spirits slowly influence and manipulate the village, seeking to take control of the living. This movie is genuinely creepy in so many ways, with its peasant village setting and folktale feel, it reminds me of old hammer horror films but with a contemporary feel, for its use of effects and scares. Beautifully crafted and with great performances, It's a captivating watch for sure! And who doesn't love a bit of ye olde Hungarian horror with peasants being flung around their village like rag dolls in a toddlers tantrum!" [Festival Director Rachel Richardson-Jones]