‘Family Dinner’s’ Capra Film Builds Horror Slate With New Projects From Peter Hengl, Marc Schlegel, Michael Winiecki, Paul Ertl (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Having impressed with Peter Hengl’s “Family Dinner,” a 2022 Tribeca world premiere, Vienna-based Capra Film is developing an ever expanding slate of movies and series which establishes it as a growing genre force to keep track of in Europe.

Founded in 2015 by producer Lola Basara and writer-director Hengl, Capra Film was the only production-house to have two titles at October’s Sitges Fanpitch, where Hengl’s  “Krampusnacht” won a Fantasia-Frontières Award, consisting of an invitation to Frontières, Fantasia’s vibrant industry platform, running July 26-29.

As a potential follow-up, Hengl is developing “Bug Boy,” a teenage body horror creature feature. Also in the Capra hopper are period horror film “Dracu,” from Schlegel, horror film “In the Moorland,” by Michael Winiecki, TV series “Newfall,” from Stefano Nurra, and vampire film “Thirst,” by Paul Ertl. “We are a young Austrian production company committed to creating high quality genre feature films with a distinctive Austrian sensibility and an international target audience,” Capra Film’s template runs.

This is nowhere clearer perhaps in the works of Hengl. “Family Dinner” plumbs the abusive power dynamics in a dysfunctional family – a common Austrian horror trope – which call on children to sacrifice themselves to their parents’ desires.