DO DINKUM HORROR stories still exist in our dirty, misshapen world of Covid, violence and mistrust? Do they still inspire fear (rather than revulsion, cynicism or lurid humour) in the hearts of their audience members? Playwright Deon Johnston pushes a clichéd horror trope down a path spiked with absurdity in his deliciously unsettling Afrikaans-language work In Vino Veritas, which broadcasts on Kaapstad Radio’s 2:30pm programme, ‘Alles Afrikaans’, on Wednesday December 1. It shatters all expectations beautifully and in just 15 minutes.
And it is here where you meet two contemporary young men, Hannes and Ernst, on a bit of an off-the-wall adventure. It’s five in the morning and they’re at the cemetery. Clearly for nefarious reasons, armed as they are with expensive whisky. But it is here where they find something completely unexpected, even though it is, indeed, something that the…
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