Showmax has proven itself when it comes to original content – and the upcoming series ‘DAM’ promises to keep viewers on the edge of their seat! Now, ahead of the season premiere on Monday 22 February, the streaming service has launched the series’ official trailer.
In the series, Lea Vivier stars as Yola Fischer, a woman who returns from Chile to the Eastern Cape to bury her father where she discovers he’s left his farm to her, to the irritation of her sister, Sienna. It turns out that this may be more of a curse than a blessing, as the house seems to be trying to tell her something. But, with her mother institutionalised, and her own meds running out, Yola has to wonder if the spirits are real or just in her head?
The series was filmed on location in the Bedford and Adelaide towns of the Amathole District in the Eastern Cape. Judging by the trailer, three-time SAFTA-winning cinematographer Tom Marais (Hunter Killer, iNumber Number) has clearly made the most of the locations, which mark a welcome change from the cities we usually see in South African series.
But if you spell ‘DAM’ backwards, you get MAD, and there’s plenty of madness lurking underneath the beauty of his framing. Pigs die with more violence than necessary; a psychiatric hospital patient uses unorthodox art materials; and wall-mounted barbel fish seem disturbingly popular…
Neil Sandilands (Bernoldus) and Natasha Loring (Sienna) both took a break from Hollywood for the series and are set to star alongside Lea in the series. Other noticeable faces include 2020 Africa Movie Academy Award nominee Faniswa Yisa (Knuckle City and the upcoming Showmax Original Blood Psalms); SAFTA winner Antoinette Louw (An Act of Defiance, Die Laaste Tango); Gerald Steyn (Meisies Wat Fluit, Fiela Se Kind) and aKing frontman Laudo Liebenberg (Black Sails, Die Byl); Fiesta winners Tarryn Wyngaard (Noem My Skollie, Raised by Wolves, Dwaalster) and Andre Odendaal (Swartwater, Dwaalster); Fleur du Cap winner and three-time SAFTA nominee Jennifer Steyn (Goodbye Bafana); and David James (District 9).
Watch the creepy trailer below and read more television news here.
