Congrega Esoterica Padovana makes its directorial debut with Mors Omnia Solvit (aka “Frammenti – I Veneratori di Morte”), an Italian occult film that reinterprets the classical myth of Persephone and Hades.
Inspired by cult extreme cinema films such as Nekromantik, Begotten, Der Todesking and Opera Mortem, Mors Omnia Solvit provides a contemporary version of the aforementioned mythological deities by placing them in a perfect macabre and leaden context in which death, linked to Satanism and blasphemy, becomes the cradle and refuge of life.
The film blurs into the experimental genre by alternating searching and hypnotic images of monumental cemeteries with biblical texts, abuse and lobotomy, burned religious symbols with satanic figures, and continuing with the members of a cult who pull the strings of the protagonists' destiny, pushing them into the meanders of their personal hell.
Mors Omnia Solvit compares contemporaries Persephone and Hades, here both unwitting custodians of an inner death that is reflected externally by necrophilia.
As in the Nekromantik by Buttgereit, in the film by Padovana Esoteric Cabal eros and thanatos merge between nudity and decomposition, between autoeroticism and corpses, giving explicit moments of deviant sexuality flanked by satanic elements, sacrifices and cannibalism. Elements, these, that give a distinctive touch to the film.
During the perverse intercourses, further emphasized by the carefully crafted cinematography that enhances their morbidity, the modern queen of the underworld indulges in erotic and blasphemous interludes, among which a small homage to The Exorcist by William Friedkin can also be spotted.
The film's atmosphere is permeated by a palpable, authentic evil that forcefully seeps into viewers accustomed to true macabre and lugubrious art, both in cinema and, above all in music.
Deeply rotten, irreligious and baleful in spirit, Mors Omnia Solvit thus becomes an important occult/extreme film (notably an Italian one) centered on necrophilia, in which the sense of death, accompanied by paraphilias and Satanism, is ever-present.
This is made even more suffocating by a perfect soundtrack (by Mater A Clivis Imperat) that preserves its sinister spirit.
Mors Omnia Solvit stars Samael Von Martin, Vax Absent, Simòn Ferètro, The Nun, Niko Devotional and Natalija Brankovic.
The Mater A Clivis Imperat are an Italian metal band founded by Samael Von Martin himself, former guitarist and founder of the historic Black Metal group EVOL.
Poster by Maira Pedroni:
