5 of 5 viewers "Liked" "Night of the Demon" (1980, USA)
Here's what the creatures had to say:
Lord Battle - The definition of an exploitation film on wikipedia is; "a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content." But it wasn't until the midnight screening of James C. Wasson's (only credit) 1980's slasher Night of the Demon that I truly understood the meaning. After spending 20 hours among Bigfoot fans, believers, and hunters (Pro kill included) it was painfully clear that Jim L. Ball (story (only credit)), Mike Williams (screenplay (only credit)) were not interested in the actual Bigfoot lore, the lore which Bigfooters live and breathe. If the Bigfoot community felt betrayed by the Harry and the Hendersons writer/director William Dear, a man who cared enough to name characters in his film after obscure cryptozoology heros that only the community would know about (More about that HERE) and they still curse the film, then imagine how the crowd at Bigfoot Bonanza (in the Crabtree theatre) would react to a Bigfoot vindictively murdering people with an axe! The blatant mischaracterization of Bigfoot made me sympathetic to the community as I know this portrayal would deeply upset them. I just remember how upset I was about the dumbass mischaracterization of the beholders in the first Dungeons and Dragons (2000) film but at the same time I can't help but celebrate how awesome the idea of a cult worshiping a Bigfoot slasher and offering him sexual sacrifices is! I mean come on, blood pools into a Bigfoot footprint that's the unprecedented yet awesome imagery that could only come from an exploitive mind and only be seen in a true Sasquatchsploitation film!!" - 5 Stars KillDozer - "I was sold on this title by a local classic monster horror host who claimed it was "the bloodiest BigFoot film ever made!". He wasn't kidding!!! Night of the Demon made in 1980 is an incredible display of gore, violence, cult sacrifices, and interspecies rape! Sadly this is the director's only credit as I feel as though he may have been well on his way to being a legend in the genre. As if Bigfoot wasn't a good enough selling point, this film also features some mind blowing and cringe worthy kills by our favorite cryptozoology creature. It even has a sleeping bag kill that rivals Jason Vorhees!! I can't recommend this title enough to all those horror nerds out there looking for a bloody diamond in the rough. This is a monster cult slasher that belongs on the shelf of every genre collector!"- 5 Stars (worth of over the top 80's bloody monster violence :) a great film to see with a fun crowd)
Math Mage - "I was worried that this film included brutal Bigfoot attacks, I was not expecting competent anthropologists fighting demon cultists." - 5 Stars
The Berkeley Blazer - "I can't really review this movie. I viewed Night of the Demon at the tail end of a massive Bigfoot marathon. We were promised one of the goriest Bigfoot movies ever and while I didn't want to miss it, I also felt the tender kiss of sleep burrowing its way into my brain. The sound of the dialog and the quality of writing didn't seem like one of NotD strengths, so I compromised and listened to Childish Gambino's "Awaken, My Love" and Cradles of Filth's "Nymphetamine" album, effectively experiencing Night of the Demon as a music video, and it worked, it so worked. During an instantly classic scene (to be continued)" - 3 Stars
Huntress - "With elements of a monster movie as well as a Scooby Doo type mystery, Night of the Demon makes for a pretty bloody adventure movie, much different from the rest of the lineup at Bigfoot Bonanza. Although I think the alternative title, The Curse of Bigfoot, is a better representation and also a lot more fun, Night of the Demon must have made more than a couple people reconsider squatching in the 80’s." - 3.5 Stars
The Overlook Theatre Final Rating*
(Below is for after you've seen the film)
Night of the Demon introduced me to the phrase Sasquatchsploitation and with a little research (a quick Google search) I came across a site www.sasquatchploitation.com "A watchdog for the exploitation of Bigfoot and sasquatch in film, tv, books, internet and other media" and they've got quite a few amazingly cringe-worthy videos to share, below are a couple of my favorites:
This Purple Protector commercial features a conspiracy theorist Bigfoot, a bedwetting baby Bigfoot, and a few terrible puns. Perfectly awesome and exploitive.
Here is a kickstarter for Sasquatch I: It Begins: The Curse of the Were-Squatch a film which I won't try to describe. Just watch the video. I will say however that the perks offered for this project are amazing and cheap! Check those out HERE.
-Lord Battle
The Overlook Theatre materialized in the Balboa theatre for Bigfoot Bonanza on 3/11/2017
*Based on the star ratings turned in by character reviewers, others viewed and got to "Dislike" or "Like" but that does not affect the rating.
I finally watched something that made me jump! I came across this scrolling through Crunchyroll and finally gave in and watched it one night at 3 AM. This anime has been going on for a while and has over fifty episodes, but they are all only about five minutes long so you could potentially finish an entire season in a little over an hour. Also the art style is super weird and unique, but I'll get to that later.
Yamishibai is an anthology anime kind of similar to what I reviewed last time, Fuan no Tane. Each episode is a new short story that has either been a Japanese urban legend or was a rumored event. Every story told is kind of unsettling in that because they were supposed to have happened in real life they make you feel as though the same thing could happen to you, or as if the same monster is watching you. This feeling is especially prevalent if you happen to binge watch this at three in the morning one night like I did. Some of the shorts feature jump scares, and even if you are anticipating them, it's hard for them not to get you.
As you probably noticed from the pictures, the art style in Yamishiba is not as traditionally anime as you may have guessed. The show is done in a sort of picture book animation where everything is hand drawn (I think, it might just look like that...) and there are no actual movements, but rather one standee moving from side to side. That was a horrible attempt at explanation so I'll try to link an example of it below lol. I thought this style of animation was really cool. I had never seen anything like it before and it kind of reminded me of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, while also making me recall picture books from my childhood.
(This was the closest I could get to finding an episode on YouTube 😅)
I really enjoyed watching this anime despite being scared by it because it was something new and unexpected. There was also no need for commitment as each episode is standalone with no long plot line running through the series. So if you need to put it down you can. Some of the shorts do fall flat because the stories are kind of Japanese culture specific and aren't really enough to scare me, but most of them are super creepy and spooky. In the later seasons some episodes feature different art styles and a little more movement making me wonder if maybe they got some guest artists to do an episode or something which would actually be really cool if it were true. (Also a side note if you like Vocaloid, the first two seasons have some good Vocaloid songs for the OP/ED themes.) If you've got a tight schedule, but still want to check out a good horror anime Yamishibai is the one for you!
Can you believe we're already nearing the end of March? And that means we're mere weeks away from events like the 60th annual San Francisco International Film Festival and Monsterpalooza! So I guess it seems fitting to stay indoors this last weekend of March and avoid any retail temptation... and to watch some of the new movies coming out on VOD today! I usually don't pay too much attention, or just find out about on demand movies late, but I came across so many for today that I had to include them. And luckily, one of them will be exclusively on Shudder.
Of course, there are also some new releases coming to theatres, the most notable of which is Life, the next installment of the Alien franchise. I still don't know what to think about this one (I never stopped disliking Ryan Reynolds after Buried) but I'm sure some of the Overlook creatures will take a trip the the movies to check this out some time soon. It can't be any worse than what I've been hearing about the new Predator movie...
Life tells the story of the six-member crew of the International Space Station that is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with a deadly proposition. How far will she go to save the people she loves?
A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe, "Prevenge" follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree that's as funny as it is vicious. It's her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth's actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father. The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims. Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood. "Prevenge" marks the directorial debut from Lowe, who is a triple threat, writing, directing, and acting in the film during her own pregnancy. Prevenge opens theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, and will be available nationwide on Shudder, on March 24th.
The perfect kidnapping goes gruesomely awry in this shock-a-minute, supernatural wild ride. Led by the tough-as-nails Hazel (You're Next's Sharni Vinson), a band of desperate criminals abduct Katherine (Carlyn Burchell), the daughter of an ultra-wealthy family, for ransom. What the gang doesn't realize is that although they have Katherine's body, her soul is already in possession of a demonic force that's about to turn the tables on them. Cue a cavalcade of carnage, all building up to a totally twisted, off-the-rails finale.
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Last Embrace (1979)
Friday 23rd @ 9:25pm (1hr 42min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (Rotten Tomatoes)
In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a catatonic collapse after the murder of his wife. After Harry's recovery, he is back on the job, but he can't figure out whether he is suffering from self-induced paranoia or if his former employers want to kill him. These conflicting feelings are exacerbated when he forms a connection with a nervous graduate student, Ellie Fabian (Janet Margolin), whom he discovers is living in his apartment. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
Double Feature
Vertigo (1958)
Saturday 25th @ 2pm, 4:30pm & 7pm
Vertigo is also screening solo Sunday 26th @ 3pm, 5:30pm & 8pm
The mysterious Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a beautiful crime novelist, becomes a suspect when she is linked to the brutal death of a rock star. Investigated by homicide detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), Catherine seduces him into an intense relationship. Meanwhile, the murder case becomes increasingly complicated when more seemingly connected deaths occur and Nick's psychologist and lover, Beth Garner (Jeanne Tripplehorn), appears to be another suspect.
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky."
6 of 7 viewers "Liked" "The Belko Experiment" (2017, USA)
Here's what the creatures had to say:
The Berkeley Blazer - "The Basic Bitch Bottom Line on The Belko Experiment is that it's Lord of the Flies meets The Office by way of Battle Royale. Indeed, if our protagonists don't remind you at least a little of Pam and Jim, then you probably have never seen that show. This is an effective horror satire of ultra-violence that, like Lord of the Flies draws on personifications of certain contrasting outlooks to make certain socio-political observations, which while engaging wouldn't really matter if the film were a bore, and happily it's not. The acting here was impressive for the most part and I found the film managed to make me care about the fate of most of these characters and become moved when they met their grizzly fate. This was an aspect of The Belko Experiment that particularly impressed me: it manages to clearly convey its greater points while remaining emotionally engaging, terrifying, and often enough fairly hilarious. The problem with Belko, besides the eye-rolling dial it in ending, is that there is really no takeaway here. It didn't change anything for me cinematically or intellectually and I'll probably never watch it again, but it really doesn't have to because it's so engaging while it lasts. You are drawn in to the predicament of the characters from the get go and I imagine most viewers imagining what they would do in this situation as well as planning out who they'd team up with and how to protect themselves. If you can stomach the violence and appreciate horror with a sardonically satirical edge, you could do much worse than The Belko Experiment." - 3.5 Stars The Ascendant (R) - "Of any genre film released this year, The Belko Experiment (2017) should have been an instant knockout. The script was penned by Troma-born Writer/Director James Gunn, responsible for such films such as Slither (2006), Tromeo and Juliet (1996), Super (2010) and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Behind the lens, lying in wait, was Writer/Director Greg McLean, the Australian-mastermind behind Wolf Creek (2005), Rogue (2007) and Wolf Creek 2 (2013). Unfortunately, even with its Genre-Pedigree, The Belko Experiment (2017) utterly fails to resonate as a coherent or interesting film. Its razor-thin script is much less clever than it truly believes it is, as are the White Collar characters that reside inside of it. Its lead character Mike Milch (played by John Gallagher Jr.) doesn't feel the least believable within this script, neither does any character that follows his lead (and there are many). Strangely enough, the characters within this script that refuse to orbit around its lead character, are the ones you'll remember the most, speaking to (at the very least) Gunn & McLean's experience writing and directing characterizations of that ilk. Through and through The Belko Experiment (2017) plays like a Direct-To-Video film (lacking Gunn & McLean's signatures/trademarks as Writers/Directors), specifically made for Joe & Jane Six-Pack and not for the genre fans that have salivated over the collective work of Gunn & McLean the past 20 years. If you haven't seen The Most Dangerous Game (1932), The Lord of the Flies (1990), Battle Royale (2000), The Running Man (1987) or even The Purge (2013), this film might come off as original and enthralling to you, it even might be shocking. To the rest of us, it's as mundane and predictable as daily office-life." - 2 Stars
Trash - "You know what's cool? Negotiating your salary at a corporate job. Because man, wouldn't another $5k a year really help you out? Of course, your boss is gonna bargain you down to 3, but god damn it, you got that 3, and what a victory. But a few thousand dollars don't mean shit to a corporation, and neither do you. The Belko Experiment's main function is as a nasty splatterfest, cruel and blunt, using an obvious commentary on how shitty the corporate career is as a method to murder an entire building of characters. The gore is rad as hell, and the movie doesn't shy away from getting crazy brutal. I love a good death game, cos the way I look at it, life's just one big death game, yeah? Shout out to John Gallagher Jr. and Sean Gunn, it's a damn good cast. I'm angry, I'm frustrated, and for 90 minutes The Belko Experiment gave me a wicked grin." - 5 Stars
Clark Little - "A "Purge"/"Battle Royale" premise stuck in a Dunder/Mifflin work environment. Given the setting and location of the story, I would have enjoyed more creative kills. The ending was completely ridiculous yet enjoyable and it left me with a pessimistic view for the future of humanity. However, I had more fun with this movie than in any of the more recent “kill or be killed” films and when a film can hit all those notes, it doesn’t go unnoticed with me." - 3.5 Stars
Huntress - "After a brief introduction to a building full of people, The Belko Experiment turns into an hour and a half of unapologetic bloodshed and death. I must admit, as a full time 9 to 5er, I couldn’t help be tickled by the inventive and just plain cruel usage of the mundane objects that cover my desk, and the parallels to Orwell’s Animal Farm were especially pronounced for me. But I decided this first watch was better off without reading too much into deeper and underlying themes. Although you could absolutely find deeper meanings in the relationships and choices contained within this film and building." - 4 Stars
Dabbles - "I went into this movie with little to no expectations but I ended up really enjoying it. John Gallagher was a really good performer throughout. Gave me a Lord of the Flies feel. Worth a watch." - 4 Stars
Lord Battle - "The Belko Experiment was born of a James Gun script and helmed by Greg McLean and, even though I'm a huge Slither fan (haven't seen Guardians) and an even bigger Wolf Creek fan, I was just not excited for this film. Maybe because I feel haunted by comic book films like I'm the F'n Birdman or maybe it's because The Darkness was such a POS but I pushed to screen a double feature at the Overlook. I was out voted by every creature so the choice was outta my hands. Now I realize this all sounds like a build up to why I hate this film and honestly I didn't have fun watching Belko. This shit left me feeling disturbed and I love watching horrible cinema. I love hunting down found footage and some of the best found footage taps into a non-Hollywood "is this real?!" vibe but fails to truly leave me feeling shitty inside. The Belko Experiment succeeded in this by setting up 70 something characters to kill, of which 40 were padding, 20 were secondary but fleshed out enough to be "that guy" or "oh she reminds me of", and 10 where typical movie trope main characters but all 70 realistically reflected a relaxed corporate environment. Now I know it may not seem like it, but Lord Battle is riddled with empathy (you don't hangout with a goblin like Dabbles otherwise) and when the secondary batch started to be dispatched it was just brutal. The violence is not the Dwight vs Jim gorefest you were hoping for (to be fair there is a little of this), it's actually more along the lines of a preachy cautionary tale with employees cracking jokes while being juxtaposed with executions that are cold and more foreign found footage feeling than Evil Dead 2-esque. So I left the theatre thinking "whoa, I feel bad" but I think that feeling is validation for the film and taught me a lot about the genre I love so much. Too bad it came from a misfire from two filmmakers I really enjoy but imperfect films are the ones I find truly beautiful." - 4 Stars
The Overlook Theatre Final Rating*
(Below is for after you've seen the film)
It seems people can't decide whether The Belko Experiment was brutal and inappropriate or fun and most importantly funny. I think it's fair to say that both parties would agree that the situation is at least highly implausible and in no way is trying to ruin your 9 to 5 by adding some new death game anxiety. It's actually kinda funny when you think about it, since another less likely to happen film of the Death Game variety is really about to happen. And I am of course talking about everyone's favorite film The Hunger Games. Below is a excerpt from an article about the Hunger Games-esque TV show called "Game2Winter" from The Siberian Times, if you want to read the insane full article I'll include a link below. If a RL death game isn't your cup of tea, skip below to find a truly fun (if a bit spoilery) version of The Belko Experiment.
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Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.
The show to be broadcast worldwide on the web starting in July will see 30 participants, 15 of them women, ditched on a large island in the Ob River, the seventh longest in the world, chasing a 100 million rouble ($1.7 million) prize on a nine month survival mission in winter temperatures as low as minus 50C.
Location of Game2Winter
Called Game2:Winter, the reality TV programme has quietly dropped a shocking rule that stated: 'Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything.'
When asked if he will intervene if there is 'physical violence, rape, a murder', organizer Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, 35, a Novosibirsk millionaire, told The Siberian Times: 'No we won't. I am pretty sure there will be fights, and more. We are not scared of negative reaction if that happens either.'
Show creator Yevgeny Pyatkovsky
He insisted it would be made clear to the international participants ahead of the show 'that punishment will follow according to the Russian Criminal Code'. In other words, any action would be for the police or other law enforcement agencies only, not the show's organizers.
Dry Blood has an impressive list of laurels, and it's still in the film fest circuit
The first time we met Clint Carney, KillDozer was probing him for details about his first feature film, Dry Blood, in an August edition of Digging Up the Dirt. And now, Clint returns to talk to the Overlook creatures who haunt the Disney Dungeon on Monday nights.
This time KillDozer is joined by the usual hosts, and they all have questions. From script writing and casting Dry Blood, to his favorite Coen Brothers film, they could have talked all night if Clark hadn’t kept an eye on the time...
Photo courtesy of LA Weekly
Clint is not only a film maker and musician, he is an all around artist. He has built props for some huge movies (which he gets into in episode 31) and one of his art galleries was featured in LA Weekly in 2011.
He has also been in several industrial bands, including System Syn who scored Dry Blood, Imperative Reaction, and God Module.
Bluray Tuesday returns! Some interesting releases are out for today. Scream Factory is releasing Evolution, which I missed on its limited run in theaters but it looks very interesting. I'll check it out really soon for sure. Robocop 2 and Robocop 3 get a new re-scan from Scream Factory and are being released as apart of their collector's edition line, which means all new bonus material. If you like psychological thrillers and murder mysteries there is a new one hitting shelves starring Patrick Wilson and Jessica Beil called A Kind of Murder. I just saw trailer for this recently and it looked really good. I actually had to skip past it so I didn't spoil anything. Trailers these days show the whole film including the twists. As for the bigger releases, this week we get Assassin's Creed starring Michael Fassbender. This film is based on the popular video game series. I've heard mixed reviews on this one and will probably check out in the near future. If you are into steelbook releases, the Assassin'sCreed steelbook will be a Best Buy exclusive this week. Best Buy is also releasing an exclusive steelbook for family film Sing which also hits stores today. So what will you be buying, renting or just skipping this week? let us know in the comments. Until next week!
The only residents of young Nicholas's seaside town are women and boys.
When he sees a dead body in the ocean one day, he begins to question his
existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be
hospitalised?
In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married
to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his
fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as
he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an
overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another
woman.
Cal Lynch travels back in time to 15th-century Spain through a
revolutionary technology that unlocks the genetic memories contained in
his DNA. There, he lives out the experiences of Aguilar de Nerha, a
distant relative who's also a member of the Assassins, a secret society
that fights to protect free will from the
power-hungry Templar Order. Transformed by the past, Cal begins to gain
the knowledge and physical skills necessary to battle the oppressive
organization in the present.
High-school nerd Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) learns from psychic
Madame Serena (Zelda Rubinstein) that she's possessed with magical
abilities that will begin working on her 16th birthday. When the
prophecy proves true, the teenager uses her new powers to get what she's
always desired: popularity. After getting back at
some bullies, the young witch casts a spell over hunky jock Brad Powell
(Dan Gauthier). But Louise soon learns that getting what you want isn't
all it's cracked up to be.
Willing to bend the rules for her clients, Elizabeth Sloane
(Jessica Chastain) remains one of the most sought-after lobbyists in
Washington, D.C. When asked to help oppose a bill that imposes
regulations on firearms, she instead joins a scrappy boutique firm that
represents the backers of the law. Her defiant stance
and determination to win now makes her the target of powerful new
enemies who threaten her career and the people she cares about.
A resurrected outlaw biker finds himself addicted to the substance that
brought him back from the grave. In order to get his daily fix, his gang
is forced to do the bidding of two sadistic scientists attempting to
capture a biological mutation and perform a human head transplant on
kidnapped teenagers. When his disgruntled ex-girlfriend is released from
prison, she embarks on an explosive manhunt for her former lover and
his strung-out pack of degenerates. With three dysfunctional bounty
hunters, a rival motorcycle gang and an army of machine-gun toting
strippers, it becomes a race against law-enforcement for bragging rights
to the gang leader's demise.
When Detroit's decent into chaos is further compounded by a police
department strike and a new designer drug called "Nuke," only RoboCop
can stop the mayhem. But in his way are an evil corporation that profits
from Motor City crime and a bigger and tougher cyborg with a deadly
directive: Take out RoboCop. Containing the latest gadgetry and weaponry
as well as the brain of the madman who designed "Nuke," this new cyborg
isn't just more sophisticated than his predecessor...he's psychotic and
out of control! And it's going to take everything RoboCop has - maybe
even his life - to save Detroit from complete and utter anarchy.
When the ruthless corporation that runs Motor City begins kicking
families out of their homes to clear space for a profitable new real
estate project, RoboCop (Robert John Burke, Cop Land) joins forces with a
renegade band of freedom fighters to save them. But RoboCop must face
some deadly foes, including a lethally efficient android and a dangerous
gang of thugs. RoboCop's latest arsenal of high-tech weaponry only
somewhat evens the battlefield, as this lone superhero takes on the
entire army of corporate militia in an all-out war to control Detroit!
Dapper Koala Buster Moon presides over a once-grand theater that
has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist, and a bit of a scoundrel,
he loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it.
Facing the crumbling of his life's ambition, he takes one final chance
to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by
producing the world's greatest singing competition. Five contestants
emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla and a punk-rock
porcupine.
We are in for another rainy week here in the bay area, but our loving theatres are giving us a great film lineup as well. So we can still go out but not get completely drenched.
Drafthouse recommended film Raw will start screening at the San Francisco Drafthouse this week, but before that Terror Tuesday will show us a film with some similar themes.. The Castro Theatre kicks off their Vertigo plus one weekend on Friday, and Dig Two Graves teases us with a strictly VOD release on the same day.
A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with a deadly proposition. How far will she go to save the people she loves?
An unjustly accused prisoner in 2019 is given a slim chance at freedom if he enters a battle-to-the-death on a television game show. Dawson steals the show as the slimy host!
Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed. Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) is a strange man with a forbidding nature who has just married lovely but nervous June (Tricia Vessey), and they've decided to go to Paris for their honeymoon. In the City of Lights, a beautiful but dangerous woman named Core (Beatrice Dalle) has been leaving a trail of dead bodies in her wake when she's captured by Leo Semeneau (Alex Descas), a mysterious scientist who spirits her away to his estate. As Core is placed under guard, Semeneau leaves to return to the city for an unnamed assignment; we soon learn that one of Shane's reasons for coming to Paris was to find him and retrieve some important information. In time, we also discover that Shane and Core have something rather unusual in common -- both are murderous cannibals who regularly feast on the flesh of their victims, and Semeneau's information may hold the key to the secret behind their deadly appetite. Trouble Every Day generated a certain amount of controversy in its screenings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where a number of patrons walked out in disgust at the film's intense blend of sensuality and cannibalism.
Writer/director John Waters offers an outrageous satire of suburban life--and the American fame industry for merchandizing mass murderers--with this hilarious black comedy about a Baltimore woman who's the ideal wife and mother, except for her habit of killing people who annoy her!
Everyone in Justine's family is a vet. And a vegetarian. At sixteen she's a brilliant student starting out at veterinary school where she experiences a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her family principles and eats RAW meat for the first time. Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge...
Set in a city suspiciously like Los Angeles, both blazingly modern and resolutely retro in look and feel. A jazz musician, tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. In a parallel story, a young mechanic is drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that both women may, in fact, be the same woman. The men are also connected by a mysterious turn of events that calls into question their very identities.
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In Cold Blood (1967)
Thursday 23rd @ 9:30pm (2hrs 15min)
Biography/ Crime/ Drama (IMDB)
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Double Feature
Vertigo (1958)
Friday 24th @ 7pm (2hrs 9min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (MDB)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Last Embrace (1979)
Friday 23rd @ 9:25pm (1hr 42min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (Rotten Tomatoes)
In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a catatonic collapse after the murder of his wife. After Harry's recovery, he is back on the job, but he can't figure out whether he is suffering from self-induced paranoia or if his former employers want to kill him. These conflicting feelings are exacerbated when he forms a connection with a nervous graduate student, Ellie Fabian (Janet Margolin), whom he discovers is living in his apartment. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
