Mother Monster

Amongst the undead, the mutants and the ghosts, Mother Monster explores unconventional scenarios of contemporary gothic, renewing the liberating purpose of scary stories. A collection of modern horror fairy tales, from around the world, connected by a sturdy red string: ghosts, in different sizes and shapes, walking our world. A man having surreal visions while looking after the dying wife, a fourteen-year-old girl married off to an old famous writer, a truckman driving back to work after the massacre of his whole family only to find Death itself as a passenger.

When outside the night is looming over, cold and full of omens, humans gather around a fire to tell and listen to stories. That is the essential goal of narrating: pushing death away, making her path longer, ensuring that when she comes there will be no one to take away.

Mother Monster weaves echoes from the Decameron, Basile, One Thousand and One Nights, and Chaucer, while giving life to all sorts of characters that walks in darkness with the hope of seeing the sunrise soon.