Black Mandala makes sales including on possession horror ‘The Containment’

EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand sales firm Black Mandala has made sales on its slate, including on possession horror The Containment, which is headed to Poland (Monolith Films) and CIS – Russia (MJM Group).

The Auckland-based company has also sold satanic title The Red Book Ritual to CIS – Russia (MJM Group).

Traumnovelle, starring Klaus Kinski’s son Nikolai Kinski as a husband who discovers a secret erotic society, has sold to Germany (Busch Media); while Carlos Goita’s corpse horror Play Dead is also headed to North America (Epic Pictures) and Germany (Epic Pictures).

Black Mandala has also sold its own production, a horror set during the 1978 football World Cup final, to HBO for Latin America.

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