My thanks to the eagle eyed Avery for pointing the way to Karla Jean Davis' Golgotha, the debut feature from Karla Jean Davis who has a few shorts under her belt and some may remember as one of the contestants on film making reality show On The Lot. In visual approach Golgotha is a serious minded homage to the German Expressionist films of the 20s, which is always a good thing in my books - it's an approach that plays no small part in the ongoing success of Twitch fave Guy Maddin. In subject matter, though, Golgotha is considerably less serious minded, putting a bit of a comic spin on the supernatural horror films that the Expressionist movement produced.

An homage to German Expressionist silent films, GOLGOTHA is the memoir of an evil sorceress's life at the top...alone. It is a dark and stormy night. Through the wind and the rain, a soft light burns in an utmost castle tower, home of the dreaded sorceress Golgotha, whom time and tribulation have reduced to an old woman; a sickly shadow of her former glory. In her final hours, Golgotha is attended by the last of her loyal footservants, a goblin named Minion, to whom she recounts the days before she became a power-hungry sorceress. Her woeful tale reveals an obsession with a certain wooden-handled sword and---possibly, buried deep beneath her icy facade---a desire for love. But even unto her dying breath, will Golgotha ever admit it?

I'm of two minds on this one. Parts of the trailer look a bit cheap, frankly, and a little bit amateur. The bits that work, however, look spectacular. You'll find the trailer below the break and west coast folk who like what they see can check the film out at the upcoming Dead Channels.