Director: Kapel Furman
Year: 2026
Country: Brazil
Alternate Titles: Remanente: Voltagem
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Heading out on a routine call, paramedics uncover hidden treasure buried in a house on the outskirts of the city and decide to investigate the house, which soon pulls them into a nightmarish scenario involving a series of demonic beings from another dimension invading our world.
Review:
For the most part, this was a fairly strong if flawed genre effort. When this one works is due to the immensely likeable setup that manages to provide this with some rather intriguing points when it finally incorporates these elements. The initial idea of the pair coming together and discovering the contents of the house, which starts to wear on them the more hardships in their life come to the forefront after the fact, gives this a fun enough starting point for them to visit the location and explore inside, and eventually discover the contents of the basement. This sets them onto discovering the legend of the basement with the gruesome occult history and connection to an alternate reality, which provides the film with the kind of solid entry point for the supernatural shenanigans to come about as they’re both haunted by strange, spectral beings following the incident. Relying on solid, brief visions and encounters with the beings appearing out of nowhere or offering brief momentary confrontations that leave a gruesome aftermath, there's a lot to like here.
There are some drawbacks that hold this one down. The main issue here is that the pacing of this one is immensely sluggish and takes a while for the more overt genre action to get going. Focusing on the different difficulties that each of the men is going through, with the first one going through financial issues with his daughter in ill health, while the other has his own struggles trying to keep debtors from getting to him, makes it apparent why each one goes for the money once they know of its existence. Yet, none of this is handled all that well in terms of getting the film going where it’s so late in regards to them getting them to the house, uncovering the loot inside, and taking it for themselves that it manages to finally get the film going at the halfway point. Even as short as it is, there’s little reason why it should be nearly at the halfway point before the main plot of the film is finally introduced.
As well, there are some problematic factors involved in the presentation of the demonic beings and how they can interact in our world once they arrive. That this one presents everything here as these brief, hallucinatory visions that seemingly appear only to the two who stole the money from the house puts this onto a seemingly obvious bit of retribution path, but yet there are few rules explaining how they can interact and influence the world around them from that point. They target both the guys who took money as well as others around them by way of taking other victims beyond just the two of them, yet no one else is seemingly aware of their presence or knows what’s causing the death and destruction around them, so the rules of the film are very loose and not well defined. Since the demons are immensely cheesy-looking due to the rather cheap CGI used to bring them to life, this does little to help what’s going on around these interactions, even in the few brief, shortened confrontations that are being utilized here, all making for a series of flaws to hold it back.
Overview: ***/5
A solid enough if flawed genre effort, this one manages to be worthwhile for what it is, even though there are some big issues here that get undone somewhat by the flaws, which are somewhat problematic overall. Those with an interest in this kind of style or who don't mind the issues presented with have the most to like here, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
This review ran as part of our coverage of the 2026 Fantaspoa Film Festival.
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