From writer-director Richard Green, and starring Sir Roel Twijnstra, Sibongiseni Shezi, and Angela Balkovic comes the haunting film The Tokoloshe: The Calling.
In the film, “A successful writer and media personality, takes his wife and their adopted Zulu daughter to an abandoned hotel in The Transkei, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, to finish his much-anticipated follow-up novel. Once there, strange things begin to occur inside the hotel. The family soon learns that the hotel has a dark past in which many murders were carried out since it opened in 1808, including rumors that the land is cursed due to being stolen from its native people. Meanwhile, in a city nearby, a high school teacher is experiencing strange visions and dreams, as “something” seems to be calling her back to the same hotel for some unfinished business. Through a sequence of events, the teacher and the family find themselves confronting a mythical creature that haunts people as they sleep and even possesses some – a creature known as the Tokoloshe.
When Arish Sirkissoon approached me with this concept of the “Tokoloshe” I thought, “you’re kidding right?” On more research I discovered that the TOKOLOSHE is actually an incredibly interesting and resonate character that takes on many forms across South African cultural. HORROR is not my genre so I found the challenge intriguing. Arish and I embarked on a journey of making this film and along the way we both discovered the very special and very African world of the “Tokoloshe”. The film embraces cultural and gender diversity exploring a unique and very extraordinary world of the “Tokoloshe”. Writer-director Richard Green says.
The Tokoloshe : The Calling will be released on Digital on September 3, 2021, from Terror Films.
