[BLOG] Watch Nigerian Director Kunle Afolayan’s Horror/Thriller ‘The Figurine’
Here’s its synopsis:
While serving at a National Youth Service Corps camp, two friends find a mystical sculpture in an abandoned shrine in the forest, and one of them decides to take the artwork home. Unknown to them, the sculpture is from the Yoruba goddess Araromire which bestows seven years of good luck on anyone who encounters it, and after the seven years have expired, seven years of bad luck follow. The lives of the two friends begin to change for good, as they become successful and wealthy businessmen. However, after seven years things start to change for bad.
It’s really not-so unlike similar genre Hollywood films, with the same zest, thrills, suspense, mystery, and so on, in which some artifact is discovered in some far-off place, is brought back to “the city” and strange things start to happen to those who possess it.
The Figurine stars Ramsey Nouah, Kunle Afolayan, Omoni Oboli, Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi, Jide Kosoko, Wale Adebayo and Muraina Oyelami. It won 5 awards at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2010, including the awards for Best Picture, Cinematography and Visual Effects.
I was engaged and entertained for the most part; and now you can see it for yourselves, because the entire film is now available for viewing (for FREE) onlive, via IbakaTv, which is, in short, an online video streaming website that features primarily Nigerian cinema.
A suggestion for those who will embark on this journey and watch the film: you can’t watch a film like this and compare to the myriad of big-budget Hollywood studio films you’ve seen all your life – especially if you’ve never seen a typical Nollywood film. While it, at one time, 4 years ago, represented what was considered the best in contemporary Nollywood cinema, you still have to watch it in context, and appreciate it on its own terms. – Indiewire
Watch the film in full below: