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Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978)
Stevenson, Room 150An unsettling cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and an early Harold Pinter play, Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend presents us with an extremely prickly couple on holiday who are finding it harder and harder to tolerate each other even as it becomes increasingly apparent that nature itself might be out to do them in […]
Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Wyrmwood
Stevenson, Room 150We need to find a zombie fast. The visually striking feature-film debut of director Kiah Roache-Turner, who made it on weekends with friends and actors over a number of years, Wyrmwood approaches the ubiquitous zombie apocalypse (familiar to us from so many works of popular culture over the past decade or so) in an unusually […]
Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Razorback
Stevenson, Room 150There's something about blasting the shit out of a razorback that brightens up my whole day. As one would expect from a film about a car-sized boar rampaging through the outback with a bloodlust for humans, Razorback is equal parts style, surface, and absurdity. Accordingly, plot summaries fail to do justice to the sheer bloody […]
Teach In: Bettina Aptheker
Stevenson, Room 150Be a student again for an afternoon! Attend a lecture entitled "Feminism & Social Justice" from faculty professor of feminist studies Bettina Aptheker. Join fellow alums for a lively look at current movements in social justice and the ways in which gender, race, class, and sexuality interconnect with each other. From birth matters to thinking […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur
Stevenson, Room 150A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l'intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis), very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call
Stevenson, Room 150Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and Imprint (2006), One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next
Stevenson, Room 150You never want to do anything interesting anymore. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number […]
Contemporary 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. […]
Contemporary 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 […]
Contemporary 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 […]