Exclusive ‘Death Has No Master’ Clip Sets the Stage for a Home Invasion [Fantastic Fest]

Fantastic Fest returns to Austin, Texas this weekend, and as always, the festival is packed with world premieres, major genre releases, and the kind of completely unexpected discoveries that make it one of our favorite places to find what’s next in horror.

We dug through this year’s massive lineup and pulled out a handful of films we’re particularly excited about, including Death Has No Master, written, directed, and produced by Jorge Thielen Armand.

Coming off its premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, the slow-burn thriller stars Asia Argento (Land of the Dead) as Caro, an expat who returns to Venezuela following the death of her father to sell her childhood home and its aging cacao plantation.

Instead, she discovers the estate occupied by her father’s former employee Sonia (Dogreika Tovar), her young son Maiko (Yermain Sequera), and several other tenants Sonia has been illegally renting rooms to.

Caro wants everyone out. Sonia isn’t going anywhere.

What begins as a battle over the property steadily escalates into something much uglier, with Caro’s attempts to reclaim and sell the estate dragging her into Venezuela’s history of colonialism, dispossession, violence, and social inequality.

Fantastic Fest programmer Annick Mahnert calls the film a “masterfully crafted slow-burn thriller,” with the increasingly hostile standoff turning Caro’s decaying childhood mansion into a reflection of the much larger conflict surrounding her.

Dread Central has an exclusive clip that sets the stage for a brutal home invasion.

Death Has No Master screens at Fantastic Fest this weekend.

We have an exclusive clip from 'DEATH HAS NO MASTER' ahead of its Fantastic Fest screening this weekend.

Asia Argento. A decaying Venezuelan estate. And a home invasion that's about much more than property.

Full details: [https://t.co/hwt0r6z6E9]

— Brad Miska @ Dread Central (@DreadCentral)