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Misfit Horror Film Series: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. February 9th - The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960, dir. Terence Fisher) - perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson's novella Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. Relationships come and go, but plastination is forever! The only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema. Both an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 2nd - Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) - an impressive and unsettling Polish film about the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the early 1600s […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Possession
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 9th - Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Zulawski) - for those of you who suspect that marriage is intrinsically a horror film Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Freaks
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 16th - Freaks (1932, dir. Tod Browning) - a Pre-Code horror flick that still has the capacity to haunt and creep you out The granddaddy of all the misfit horror […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs
Stevenson, Room 150It's easy to create a victim. One of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and […]
FreeContemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Suicide Club
Stevenson, Room 150They're not the enemy. The film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage schoolgirls queued up beside a subway platform where they hold hands, begin to sing, and then all at once hurl themselves into the path of […]
FreeContemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil
Stevenson, Room 150During the 1980s, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults. A typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West, perhaps the most critically lauded of America’s rising generation of horror movie auteurs, The House of the Devil is a moody and evocative spin on the satanic cult […]
FreeContemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse
Stevenson, Room 150Pulse (2001) Would you like to meet a ghost? About as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film in which short episodic vignettes slowly disclose a world where ghosts outnumber people and people have been reduced to black ashy stains on the wall. […]
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