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Misfit Horror Film Series: Possession

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Misfit 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: Mother Joan of the Angels

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Misfit 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: A Chinese Ghost Story

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Misfit 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: Love Object

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Misfit 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: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

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Misfit 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. […]

CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato

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Misfit 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 2nd - Arrebato (1980, dir. Iván Zulueta) - think of it as a Spanish Videodrome, only avant la lettre For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows

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The House with Laughing Windows (1976, dir. Pupi Avati) - a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film) One of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an […]

Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?

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Misfit 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.   January 19th - Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them, Who Can Kill a Child? takes […]

Film Screening: Dante's Inferno directed by Sandow Birk

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Free and open to the public (English dialogue) Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victorian-era toy theater, Dante’s Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th-century literary classic, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without […]

UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl

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The philosophy department is proud to announce that UCSC will be hosting two Ethics Bowl debate competitions this year. On December 1st, 2012, UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl, a qualifier for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Ethics Bowl is a team debate competition where teams of five undergraduates analyze case studies that demonstrate […]