‘Where she goes it follows’
The Tokoloshe is a 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Jerome Pikwane from a screenplay co-written by Richard Kunzmann. The movie stars Petronella Tshuma, Coco Merckel, Leiden Colbet, Ramunasi Fhathwani and Natasja Jacobs.
Busi, a destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions, lands a job as a cleaner at a run down hospital in the heart of Johannesburg. Desperate for money so she can also relocate her younger sister, she learns to cope despite the predatory and corrupt hospital manager.
However, when Busi discovers an abandoned girl in the hospital, one who believes she’s tormented by supernatural forces, she must also face her own past demons in order to save the child from the abusive and insatiable monster that pursues them both relentlessly…
The Tokoloshe has its world premiere in London at the Arrow Video FrightFest on 25 August 2018.
Running time and aspect ratio:
91 minutes | 1.85: 1
Trivia:
Original title: Repression