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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 […]
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 […]
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: 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: 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: 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: 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. […]
CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato
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 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
Stevenson, Room 150The 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?
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. 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 […]