Stars: Petronella Tshuma, Kwande Nkosi, Dawid Minnaar, Harriet Manamela, Mandla Shongwe, Yule Masiteng, Coco Merckel, Leiden Colbet, Natasja Jacobs | Written by Richard Kunzmann, Jerome Pikwane | Directed by Jerome Pikwane
The Tokoloshe is a South African horror flick written by Richard Kunzmann and Jerome Pikwane, the latter of whom directs. A slow-building supernatural horror film that introduces us to Busi (Petronella Tshuma), a woman who starts a job as a cleaner at a hospital in Johannesburg. She finds a young girl in the hospital who is under the belief that she is being haunted by a supernatural evil, and Busi finds herself in a battle to save the young girl from the monster as well as her own journey into facing her own demons.
I was impressed with the building tension and creepiness of this film, with the locations and performances really helping to deliver something that manages to slither under...
The Tokoloshe is a South African horror flick written by Richard Kunzmann and Jerome Pikwane, the latter of whom directs. A slow-building supernatural horror film that introduces us to Busi (Petronella Tshuma), a woman who starts a job as a cleaner at a hospital in Johannesburg. She finds a young girl in the hospital who is under the belief that she is being haunted by a supernatural evil, and Busi finds herself in a battle to save the young girl from the monster as well as her own journey into facing her own demons.
I was impressed with the building tension and creepiness of this film, with the locations and performances really helping to deliver something that manages to slither under...
- 1/21/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Determined to save up enough money to reunite with her sister, a cleaner at a hospital faces the obstacles of the building's sadistic manager and the creature that lurks within its halls in Jerome Pikwane’s The Tokoloshe. With the new horror film coming to digital platforms and physical media on December 3rd from Uncork’d Entertainment, we've been provided with an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers!
Busi (Petronella Tshuma) discovers a brutal surprise waiting for her behind a closed door in our exclusive clip from The Tokoloshe, and we also have release details and a trailer for the upcoming film:
"Jerome Pikwane’s bloodcurdling ode to the mythological creature The Tokoloshe set to spook audiences this December.
Uncork’d Entertainment will release The Tokoloshe, director Jerome Pikwane’s frightening fictional account of the mythological creature, on digital platforms and disc 12/3.
Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions,...
Busi (Petronella Tshuma) discovers a brutal surprise waiting for her behind a closed door in our exclusive clip from The Tokoloshe, and we also have release details and a trailer for the upcoming film:
"Jerome Pikwane’s bloodcurdling ode to the mythological creature The Tokoloshe set to spook audiences this December.
Uncork’d Entertainment will release The Tokoloshe, director Jerome Pikwane’s frightening fictional account of the mythological creature, on digital platforms and disc 12/3.
Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions,...
- 11/22/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
It causes mysterious illnesses, haunts children’s nightmares, and provides regular fodder for South African tabloid scribes. (Typical headline: “Tokoloshe Made Me A Sex Slave.”) Now the diminutive, mischievous, sinister spirit known as the tokoloshe is making the leap from Zulu myth to the big screen in director Jerome Pikwane’s feature debut, which opens the Durban Int’l. Film Festival July 19.
“The Tokoloshe” is a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner, Busi (Petronella Tshuma), who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life. Setting it against the harrowing backdrop of child abuse and sexual violence in South Africa, Pikwane – who co-wrote the script with novelist Richard Kunzmann – offers a film that, as with so many of the best horror flicks, is equal parts scarer and social commentary.
“Originally, we were going to do a straight out horror film—you know,...
“The Tokoloshe” is a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner, Busi (Petronella Tshuma), who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life. Setting it against the harrowing backdrop of child abuse and sexual violence in South Africa, Pikwane – who co-wrote the script with novelist Richard Kunzmann – offers a film that, as with so many of the best horror flicks, is equal parts scarer and social commentary.
“Originally, we were going to do a straight out horror film—you know,...
- 7/18/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
It’s fair to say that when you discover a film has been banned in its respective country of origin, intrigue kicks in as you wonder what it was about this particular feature that caused so much controversy. However it only takes a mere matter of seconds to work it out in Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s Of Good Report, as this South African picture begins with a man picking bits of metal out of his skull – and from this point onwards, the shock factor grows to become more intense, and more severe.
The man in question is Parker Sithole (Mothusi Magano), an introverted high school teacher who arrives in town on the hunt for a new job. However he gets more than he bargained for when he enters in to a passionate, sexual affair with his student Nolitha (Petronella Tshuma). Though unaware she’s a student of his to begin with,...
The man in question is Parker Sithole (Mothusi Magano), an introverted high school teacher who arrives in town on the hunt for a new job. However he gets more than he bargained for when he enters in to a passionate, sexual affair with his student Nolitha (Petronella Tshuma). Though unaware she’s a student of his to begin with,...
- 10/17/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A teacher-pupil affair spirals into sexual obsession and violence in this edge-of-the-seat thriller from Jahmil Xt Qubeka
The London film festival has presented me with an exciting discovery this year: the South African film-maker Jahmil Xt Qubeka, who brings some scalding steam-heat with a sensational noir thriller in black and white called Of Good Report. (It is actually his third feature, following two previous films, uMalusi and A Small Town Called Descent, which have yet to show up on IMDb.) Watching this brazenly shocking and gripping film, I remembered the feeling I had on seeing Christopher Nolan's low-budget black-and-white debut, Following. Here is a director who is going places.
The drama concerns a shy, spindly, bespectacled young man called Parker Sithole, played by Mothusi Magano. He has an enigmatic, stricken look – like Jack Nance in Eraserhead or Anthony Perkins in Psycho. Parker is new in town, having turned up...
The London film festival has presented me with an exciting discovery this year: the South African film-maker Jahmil Xt Qubeka, who brings some scalding steam-heat with a sensational noir thriller in black and white called Of Good Report. (It is actually his third feature, following two previous films, uMalusi and A Small Town Called Descent, which have yet to show up on IMDb.) Watching this brazenly shocking and gripping film, I remembered the feeling I had on seeing Christopher Nolan's low-budget black-and-white debut, Following. Here is a director who is going places.
The drama concerns a shy, spindly, bespectacled young man called Parker Sithole, played by Mothusi Magano. He has an enigmatic, stricken look – like Jack Nance in Eraserhead or Anthony Perkins in Psycho. Parker is new in town, having turned up...
- 10/14/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Rasping breath accompanies a pristine, monochrome shot from the point-of-view of a man stumbling across an area of scrubland. Two workmen stop to stare as he is revealed like some sub-Saharan gunslinger, pistol protruding from the top of his trousers, face and shirt awash with blood. A stark close-up follows his hand as he painfully extracts two teeth that have somehow been embedded in the top of his head; he laughs maniacally. Welcome to the weird and uncomfortably disturbing world of Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's noirish, blackly comic tale of obsession, Of Good Report (2013), in show at this year's Lff.
Briefly banned in its native South Africa, this is the provocative tale of teacher Parker Sithole (Mothusi Magano) who arrives at a small provincial school with the titular commendation. Without uttering a single line of dialogue, he commands attention from the get-go with his horrifying transformation from nebbish lecturer to...
Briefly banned in its native South Africa, this is the provocative tale of teacher Parker Sithole (Mothusi Magano) who arrives at a small provincial school with the titular commendation. Without uttering a single line of dialogue, he commands attention from the get-go with his horrifying transformation from nebbish lecturer to...
- 10/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Controversial film Of Good Report, initially banned by South African censors for its depiction of a teacher’s affair with a pupil, has been picked up by sales agent 6 Sales ahead of its world premiere at Toronto.
Of Good Report stars Mothusi Magano as a teacher who embarks on an affair with his pupil, played by Petronella Tshuma, with tragic consequences.
The film was prevented from opening the Durban International Film Festival earlier this year due to a refusal of classification by the South African Film and Publications Board, but has since screened in South Africa following a successful appeal by the producers.
6 Sales will act as sales agent for the film, which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) on Sept 6. It has also been selected for the Official Competition of the London Film Festival, which runs next month.
Of Good Report was directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and produced by Michael Auret of [link...
Of Good Report stars Mothusi Magano as a teacher who embarks on an affair with his pupil, played by Petronella Tshuma, with tragic consequences.
The film was prevented from opening the Durban International Film Festival earlier this year due to a refusal of classification by the South African Film and Publications Board, but has since screened in South Africa following a successful appeal by the producers.
6 Sales will act as sales agent for the film, which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) on Sept 6. It has also been selected for the Official Competition of the London Film Festival, which runs next month.
Of Good Report was directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and produced by Michael Auret of [link...
- 9/5/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Film board criticised for apartheid-style curbs on freedom of expression after first mainstream movie banned since 1994
South Africa has been accused of apartheid-style censorship after banning a mainstream film for the first time since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
Of Good Report, which tells the story of a schoolteacher who has a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student, was due to open last week's Durban international film festival. The censors reportedly cited "child pornography" as the reason for the ban.
Instead of the film, the festival audience was confronted with an on-screen statement: "This film has been refused classification by the film and publications board, in terms of the Film and Publications Act of 1996. Unfortunately we may not legally screen the film Of Good Report as doing so would constitute a criminal offence."
Jahmil Xt Qubeka, the film's director and a father of two children, appeared on stage with his mouth taped in protest.
South Africa has been accused of apartheid-style censorship after banning a mainstream film for the first time since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
Of Good Report, which tells the story of a schoolteacher who has a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student, was due to open last week's Durban international film festival. The censors reportedly cited "child pornography" as the reason for the ban.
Instead of the film, the festival audience was confronted with an on-screen statement: "This film has been refused classification by the film and publications board, in terms of the Film and Publications Act of 1996. Unfortunately we may not legally screen the film Of Good Report as doing so would constitute a criminal offence."
Jahmil Xt Qubeka, the film's director and a father of two children, appeared on stage with his mouth taped in protest.
- 7/22/2013
- by David Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
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