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OCTOBER HORROR
October 1st – 24th
The films of the season have been chosen to illustrate contemporary malaise in various parts of the world, the horror genre being known for depicting society’s subconscious fears and anxieties. Most of the films show an anxiety surrounding society’s age-old taboo: sex. Pregnancy, sexual illness, marriage, teenage sexuality, misogyny, are all illustrated in the films of the season.
It Follows personifies teenage sexuality as a ghost, emerging from their frustration, and sex, as the carrier of a disease: a materialized moving AIDS. In Possession, we are shown the destruction of a marriage in an exaggerated operatic grandeur, taking the love/hate relationship for the other to its extreme. A frustrated producer invents a fake movie casting in order to find a new wife, in Audition’s depiction of misogyny and revenge. In a brilliant subversion of the horror genre, Get Out’s unique point of view surrealistically critiques white people’s subconscious constructed abjection for otherness and the ways they hide this anxiety.
THE WAILING
(2016)
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dir. Na Hong-jin
South Korea/156min/Subtitled
with Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jun-min,
Chun Woo-hee, Jun Kunimura
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Synopsis:
In a village, a detective and a shaman seek to investigate a mysterious rumor that continues to spread.
IT FOLLOWS
(2014)
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dir. David Robert Mitchell
USA/2014/101min/English
with Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist,
Daviel Zovatto, Olivia Luccardi
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Synopsis:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions that someone, or something, is after her.
raw
(2016)
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dir. Julia Ducourneau
France, Belgium/99min/English
with Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf,
Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas
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Synopsis:
Everyone in Justine’s family is a vet.
And a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a brilliant
and promising student. When she starts at veterinary
school, she enters a decadent, merciless and
dangerously seductive world.
(2017)
GET OUT
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dir. Jordan Peele
USA/104min/English
with Daniel Kaluya, Allison Williams,
Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford
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Synopsis:
It’s time for a young African-American to meet with his white girlfriend’s parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.
(1999)
AUDITION
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dir. Takeshi Miike
Japan/115min/Subtitled
with Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina,
Jun Kunimura, Tetsu Sawaki
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Synopsis:
A widowed TV producer is invited to sit in on a mock casting audition in which young women audition for the “part” of his new wife. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by a striking ex-ballerina. Some grisly discoveries about his bride-to-be give him very, very cold feet.
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POSSESSION
(1981)
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dir. Andrzej Zulawski
Germany, France/1981/123min/English
with Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neil,
Margit Cartensen, Heinz Bennent
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Synopsis:
A spiral staircase movie, a never-ending metaphysical game of cat-and-mouse, a moral aspiration to the Heavens, a “spotlight” on God, a scornful detective movie, a horror movie and frightful, high-octane baroque work—Possession is all of that at once.
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(2009)
ANTICHRIST
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dir. Lars von Trier
Denmark, Germany/2009/109min/English
with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe,
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Synopsis:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin ‘Eden’ in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.