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HORRORTHON06 horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 2 HORRORTHON 26 OCTOBER UNTIL 30 OCTOBER AT THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE CALENDAR Prices: The opening and closing night films THURS OCT 26th 8.30 THE HOST are €10. All other screenings are €9. 10.30 SNUFF MOVIE There are special passes available: One day pass: €36 FRI OCT 27th 2.00 Two day pass €62 3.45 PET SEMATARY Three day pass €90 5.50 FROSTBITE Four day pass €115 8.00 Full festival pass (all five days) €120 John Landis’s DEER WOMAN Tobe Hooper’s DAMNED THING Festival directors: ’s PRO-LIFE Edward King 11.30 DEMONS Michael Griffin Conor McMahon SAT OCT 28th 1.00 LIE STILL 2.40 DARKLANDS (DIRECTOR’S CUT) Acknowledgements and thanks: Matt Smith - Lions Gate U.K., 4.20 THE LOST Paddy Kelly - UIP, Edward Fletcher - 6.30 THE TORTURER Soda Entertainment, Mick Garris, 8.45 MASTERS OF HORROR Adam Goldworm, Andrew Deane, John Landis’s FAMILY Max Levine - Industry Entertainment, ’s PELTS Clare Dundrow - Anchor Bay U.K., 11.30 GRIZZLY Dario Argento - Opera Film, Melanie Tebb - Hollywood Classics, Julian Richards & Rosana Coutinho - Jinga Films, SUN OCT 29th 1.00 COUNTESS DRACULA Chris Silverston - Silver Web Productions, 2.45 MASTERS OF HORROR Menna de Villamor - Surf Film, Park ’s SOUNDS LIKE Circus, Sony Pictures Europe, Eric Caidin, ’s IMPRINT Optimum Pictures, Roberto Di Girolamo & 5.00 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Maddalena Tallo - Film Export Group, Rachel Beloksky - Screamfest, Dan Berger - 7.20 SURPRISE FILM ThinkFilm, Scott Wassweman - Glen Echo 9.00 PAN’S LABYRINTH Entertainment, Jennifer Garnick - Lippin 11.15 CRUEL JAWS Group, Ted Hennessy - Xtra-vision, Lisa Richards - The Associates, Carl Daft - MON OCT 30th 13.00 GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE Severin Films, Tony Whitehead, Tartan 15.40 BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON Films U.K., BFI, Lorcan Dillon Kelly, Conor Chaney, Mick Fox, Paul Ward, 17.20 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT Juangus Dinsmore, Alan Farrell, 19.00 CELLO Eamonn Trundle, Gareth O'Connor, 20.50 POLTERGEIST Kamila Synak, Mark Sheridan, Jason Slater, and John Exshaw.

ON TOUR TO BELFAST For the first time ever, Horrorthon will be touring outside Dublin to the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast. A 4-days glut of scare movies, including new releases, anniversary screenings, and UK premieres, running from Friday Nov 3th to Sunday Nov 5th. Full programme information 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. and booking details: www.queensfilmtheatre.com www.irishfilm.ie box office 01-679 5744 horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 3

THE HOST (GWOEMUL) SNUFF-MOVIE FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 IRISH PREMIERE IRISH PREMIERE October 26 (8.30) October 26 (10.30) October 27 (2.00) director Bong Joon-ho director Bernard Rose director Move over Godzilla. There’s a new The latest instalment in the weird Five years after the events in the first giant monster on the loose in Asia career of writer-director Bernard film, another summer camp has that’s bound to become a classic and Rose (Paperhouse, Candyman), the been opened on the shores of it’s Memories of Murder director Bong DV-shot Snuff-Movie is not a Crystal Lake. Soon, the usual Joon-ho’s mix of Toho-style mayhem conventional horror picture but a assortment of teenage spam shows and zesty Alien scares done in the deliriously daft, breezily gory up and the slaughter begins. This politically aware pulp style of Larry post-post-modern comedy-of- time it’s Jason himself who does all Cohen’s Q—The Winged Serpent. terrors, packed with smart-alecky the killing, not his mother. For the Formaldehyde dumped years ago cinematic in-jokes. Jeroen Krabbé most part, director Steve Miner into the Han River causes a plays Boris Arkadin (first name a nod makes the prototypical slasher humungous tadpole mutation that to Karloff, surname a nod to Orson sequel, upping the stakes in terms unfurls under South Korean bridges Welles’ Mr Arkadin), a horror movie of gore and nudity. There’s a lot of to attack Seoul natives. A distraught director who invites a quartet of violence here, including the but gormless father somehow attractive young thespians to his impalement of a copulating couple, manages to avoid military capture country mansion where they are to death by strangulation with barbed and survive a lobotomy before be “auditioned”. The actors realise wire, throat slashing, and stabbing entering the cavernous sewers to they’re under constant surveillance with an ice pick. Miner is consciously locate and save his missing from hidden video cameras, the playing with the conventions of the daughter. High drama combines results being broadcast on a pay- genre, borrowing several set-pieces with Jaws-style shocks from the per-view website. Bloody—and from Italian maestro and terrific CGI monster (supervised by increasingly demented— making extensive use of subjective Kevin Rafferty of Star Wars fame) in shenanigans ensue. Rose is aiming to point of view shots. Yet we’re not this corker of a Korean creature feature have his cake and eat it with this encouraged to identify with any of that will set the pulse pounding the exercise—mocking the genre’s the characters. Perhaps, as critic heart racing. A festival highlight. conventions while milking them for Scott Weinberg put it, “the fun of SOUTH KOREA, 2006. SUBTITLED. all they’re worth—and while he’s these movies is quite simply the COLOUR. DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO. clearly enjoying the feast, the fare gore, the creative carnage, the 119 MIN. won’t be digestible to all. As Rose rampant cinematic brutality.” himself admits, this is made for U.S.A., 1981. COLOUR. 87 MIN. Plus “genre aficionados” rather than THE FAIRIES OF general audiences. BLACKHEATH WOOD U.K., 2005. COLOUR. DOLBY DIGITAL director Ciaran Foy STEREO. 92 MIN. IRELAND, 2006. COLOUR. DOLBY STEREO. 4 MIN.

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PET SEMATARY FROSTBITE (FROSTBITEN) MASTERS OF HORROR IRISH PREMIERE (PROGRAMME 1) October 27 (3.45) October 27 (6.00) IRISH PREMIERE director Mary Lambert director Anders Banke October 27 (8.00) made a point of Are you ready for Sweden’s first directors John Landis, writing the screenplay for this vampire movie? Meet the Lost Girls Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter adaptation of his best-selling novel of Lapland in director Anders Deer Woman, directed by John about the horrors that befall a family Banke’s black comedy horror with Landis and written by his son Max, is when they disturb an Indian burial polar bite. When doctor Annika a humorous exploration of a Native ground close to their new home in (Petra Nielsen) moves to Norrbotten American myth about a beautiful Maine. The most interesting thing after finding work in the local half-deer, half-woman succubus who about the piece (essentially a hospital, all the signs look dismal to kills men after seducing them. When reworking of the old Monkey’s Paw her teenage daughter Saga (Grete mutilated bodies start showing up tale) is the supernatural aspect, Havnesköld). Endless nights with around Seattle, depressed detective especially the ghostly promptings nothing to do. Soon Annika notices Brian Benben finally feels motivated from the dead and the sense in the strange happenings at the hospital as to leave his desk and investigate the latter half of the story that events the tiny community is struck by brutal killings. may be heading towards a looming mysterious deaths. Frostbite features Damned Thing, directed by Tobe apocalyptic confrontation. These are top of the range special effects and a Hooper and adapted by Richard familiar features of King’s writing, whole avalanche of imaginative ideas Christian Matheson from Ambrose where prescient dreams seem to and inventive jokes—like creating Bierces classic short-story, is the hover beyond the veil of the the perfect environment for apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force mundane. Director Mary Lambert is vampires in a land without much that devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle’s largely faithful to the spirit of the sun. The harshness of the Swedish family and his small Texas town. novel and makes good use of the language to foreign ears is also used Sean Patrick Flanery, Marisa bleak, wintry Maine locations to to great effect, giving rise to some Coughlan and Ted Raimi star. capture a sense of primal terror. fine one-liners. And when was the Pro-Life, directed by John She’s also not adverse to exploiting last time you saw vampire Carpenter, tells the story of a young the shocking image of a scalpel- impalement by garden gnome! girl trapped inside a clinic and who wielding three-year-old SWEDEN, 2006. SUBTITLED. COLOUR. discovers the only thing more . ANAMORPHIC. DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO. dangerous than her pursuers is the U.S.A., 1989. COLOUR. DOLBY STEREO. 98 MIN. demonic secret that she carries 103 MIN. Anders Banke will attend within her. Ron Perlman, Mark the screening. Feuerstein, Emannuelle Vaugiere and Caitlin Wachs star. U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. 3 X 60 MIN. Series producer Andrew Deane will introduce this screening.

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DEMONS (DÈMONI) LIE STILL DARKLANDS (DIRECTOR’S CUT) IRISH PREMIERE IRISH PREMIERE October 27 (11.30) October 28 (1.00) October 28 (2.40) director Lamberto Bava director Sean Hogan director Julian Richards Produced and co-written by Dario A kind of M R Jamesian take on Showing here in a more satisfying Argento but directed by festival Repulsion, this promising first version re-edited by the director, this guest Lamberto Bava, Demons is a feature from British writer-director impressive first feature by Julian horror flick with a terrific gimmick. Sean Hogan is an extended variant Richards (The Last Horror Movie) is an A random group of people are given of the creepy old-dark-house chiller. atmospheric piece for fans who like passes to the opening of a creaky As such it’s a rather refreshing their horror movies with bite and Nostradamus movie in a grand old throwback to earlier traditions of something to think about rather theatre. Seemingly prompted by horror. John (Stuart Laing) is a than just lashings of gore. A what’s on screen, the audience turn twentysomething drifter struggling combination of The Wicker Man and into cannibalistic demons, wreaking to cope with the end of his latest Rosemary’s Baby treated with a dose the kind of havoc that’s every cinema relationship; seeking peace and of hard-edged realism, Darklands manager’s worst nightmare. Like quiet, he apparently finds both when follows journalist Frazer Truick many Italian horror maestros, Bava he moves into a bed-sit flat in a (Craig Fairbrass) as he investigates piles on the gore: people have their creaking suburban mansion owned the mysterious death of the brother throats ripped apart and their eyes by the chummily ingratiating of trainee colleague Rachel Morris gouged out; a lunatic on a Mr Stone (Robert Blythe). This (Rowena King). His enquiries motorcycle tears around the proves to be only the start of John’s suggest links between the ‘accident’, auditorium, slicing off heads with a problems, however, as a series of a fervent Welsh nationalist politician sword. The dubbing adds to the horrific nightmares sends him on a and an uppity group of Celtic neo- humour, and the score is spiked with downward spiral into psychosis. The pagans. As Truick finds himself ’80s rock numbers from the likes of story’s general outline is predictable, knee deep in desecrated churches, Billy Idol, Go West and Mötley Crüe. but Hogan knows how to create and slaughtered pigs and political , 1985. COLOUR. 88 MIN. build a mood. Crucially, he deploys skulduggery, the film suggests that Lamberto Bava will attend the tried-and-tested method of Welsh nationalism is a pagan the festival. implying rather than actually conspiracy founded on blood showing the horrors, leaving the sacrifice and dedicated to restoring work to our own imaginations. the country’s industrial strength by U.K., 2005. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. murder and black magic. 80 MIN. U.K., 1996. COLOUR. DOLBY STEREO. DIGITAL VIDEO. 90 MIN. Julian Richards will attend the screening.

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THE LOST THE TORTURER MASTERS OF HORROR IRISH PREMIERE (IL TORTURATORE) (PROGRAMME 2) October 28 (4.30) IRISH PREMIERE IRISH PREMIERE director Chris Sivertson October 28 (6.20) October 28 (9.00) Far more unsettlingly savage than director Lamberto Bava directors John Landis and most horror thrillers, director Chris In a welcome return to genre Dario Argento Sivertson’s potently pulpy and pur- film-making, director Lamberto posefully lurid drama is based on the Bava mixes the recent torture/sadism Family, directed by John Landis and cult novel by Jack Ketchum. Small- trend in horror films with the old written by Brent Hanley, tells the town pretty boy Ray Pye (fearlessly aesthetic. Aspiring actress story of a young married couple played by Marc Senter) is a charismat- Ginette (a stunning Elena Bouryka) (Meredith Monroe and Matt Keeslar) ic sociopath who thrill-kills two auditions for Alex (Simone that moves into a new home in a young women in the woods. Four year Corrente), an eccentric director new city and finds out that their later, he is still the chief suspect, but notorious for his outrageous films neighbour (George Wendt) is not the unhinged Casanova is too crafty and his constant search for the what he seems. to incriminate himself—until, that is, ultimate shock effect. After falling U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. he falls for Katherine (Robin Sydney), for Alex, Ginette discovers that her 60 MIN. a well-bred beauty who wants to take girlfriend also auditioned for him a walk on the wild side. As the film and has disappeared without trace. Pelts, directed by Dario Argento and focuses on the ineffably perverse rela- Meanwhile, other young women are written by Matt Venne, is an erotic tionship between Ray and Katherine, auditioning for a mysterious tale about stolen raccoon pelts that Sivertson ratchets up the suspense personage whose face and identity violently turn against those that and boldly introduces an element of are both concealed. Three of these covet them in this giallo-style romantic tragedy. The results make women are subjected to a crazy adaptation of F. Paul Wilson’s short for one of the most original and pow- screening process characterised by story. Meatloaf and John Saxon star. erful American independent films of insane, depraved tortures. The U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. recent years. A festival highlight, but torture scenes are pretty extreme, 60 MIN. be warned that the horrific climax with Bava revelling in ghoulish Series producer Andrew Deane will test the strongest of stomachs. details as he applies his imagination will introduce this screening. U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DOLBY DIGITAL to the sadistic proceedings. STEREO. ANAMORPHIC. 119 MIN. ITALY-SPAIN, 2005. COLOUR. 100 MIN. Lamberto Bava will attend Plus the festival. FINAL JOURNEY directed by Brendan Muldowney. Belfast QFT Sun Nov 5 IRELAND, 2006. COLOUR. ANAMORPHIC. DOLBY STEREO. 3 MIN.

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GRIZZLY COUNTESS DRACULA MASTERS OF HORROR (PROGRAMME 3) October 28 (11.30) October 29 (1.00) IRISH PREMIERE director William Girdler director Peter Sasdy October 29 (2.45) Phenomenally successful as a Jaws Despite the title, this entry from directors Brad Anderson and rip-off (‘Jaws with Paws!’), maverick Hammer’s late golden period has Takashi Miike exploitation director William nothing to do with their series of Girdler’s Grizzly now enjoys a Dracula pictures. The story is based Sounds Like, directed and written considerable cult reputation on the legend of Countess Elizabeth by Brad Anderson () among fans of B-movie schlock. Bathory, a 16th-century from a short story by Mike O’Driscoll, A bloodthirsty bear (‘18 Feet of Transylvanian noblewoman who tells of Larry Pearce, an ordinary Gut-Crunching, Man-Eating Terror!’) bathed in the blood of virgins to man cursed with extraordinary is on the rampage in a national park, preserve her youth. Hammer’s sex hearing that drives him to the brink mauling or eating unsuspecting queen of the period, Ingrid Pitt is of insanity and forces him to take campers. Ineffectual park ranger excellent as both the baleful old violent action to silence the horrific Christopher George has to enlist the Countess and the voluptuous young cacophony in his head. help of naturalist Richard Jaeckel woman. Hungarian-born director U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. and helicopter Andrew Pine to Peter Sasdy succeeds in capturing 60 MIN. track down and kill the 2000-pound the appalling social implications of beast. It’s surprisingly gory for a the situation, with the aristocracy Imprint, directed by Takashi Miike, PG-rated movie, featuring a quite literally preying upon the is about an American (played by Billy beheading, a mauled child losing a peasant classes. The Countess’s Drago) who travels to a Japanese couple of limbs, and pools of bright attitude is encapsulated in the “island of whores and demons” to red blood. Girdler, who died opening sequence when, returning search for the lover he had to leave prematurely in a helicopter crash, from her husband’s funeral, her behind years earlier. What he finds, was a showman who knew how to carriage runs over and kills a or more suitably what finds him, is put together an entertaining movie. peasant. She doesn’t even blink. the stuff of nightmares. Imprint was Critic William P. Simmons goes Similarly, when convinced of the considered too extreme and was further, describing Girdler as “a poet restorative powers of her servant’s never shown by Showtime, the of poverty productions that squeezed blood, she wastes no time in American cable television channel every ounce of shock possible from murdering the girl to obtain it. that co-produced the ‘Masters of the frightful frames of his horrific U.K., 1971. COLOUR. 93 MIN. Horror’ series. exposes of titillation.” U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. U.S.A., 1976. COLOUR. ANAMORPHIC. Belfast QFT Sat Nov 4 60 MIN. 91 MIN. Series producer Andrew Deane will introduce this screening.

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD SURPRISE FILM PAN’S LABYRINTH (EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO) October 29 (5.00) October 29 (7.15) director George Romero October 29 (9.00) With its radical rewriting of a genre director Guillermo del Toro in which good had always triumphed There’s plenty of blood—both literal over evil, George Romero’s first fea- and figurative—coursing through ture shattered the conventions of the the veins of Pan’s Labyrinth, a richly horror movie. The film’s opening imagined and exquisitely violent scene immediately signals its own fantasy from writer-director subversiveness. In broad daylight, a Guillermo del Toro. A fairy tale not brother and sister visit their father’s even remotely intended for children, grave; seeing a tall man lumbering this entrancing magical-realist towards them, Johnny tries to fright- drama concocts a sinister spin on en Barbara with a daft Boris Karloff in Wonderland against the war- impersonation; suddenly the figures torn backdrop of 1940s Spain, lurches forward and kills him. With shifting between two worlds with the presumed hero dead within the striking craft and discipline. Though first few minutes, the inexorable he’s best known for directing the logic of the modern ‘nightmare comic book adaptations Blade II and movie’ is set in motion, and from Hellboy, the Mexican director’s sixth this moment on the terror never lets feature marks a return to the up. Together with a small group of supernatural trappings and delicately fellow survivors, Barbara holes up in shaded emotions of his 2001 ghost a nearby farmhouse, besieged by an story The Devil’s Backbone. Like the ever-swelling tide of flesh-eating earlier film, Pan’s Labyrinth is set . Trapped inside the house, during the violent aftermath of the they fight for their lives, but nothing Spanish Civil War and reveals a works out as it should. similar concern for the plight of U.S.A., 1968. BLACK AND WHITE. children living under fascist rule. 96 MIN. Probably del Toro’s best film to date, this powerfully imaginative piece received a 20-minute standing ovation after its Cannes Film Festival screening. MEXICO-SPAIN-U.S.A., 2006. SUBTITLED. COLOUR. DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO. 120 MIN.

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CRUEL JAWS GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE BEHIND THE MASK: AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON October 29 (11.20) IRISH PREMIERE IRISH PREMIERE director Bruno Mattei October 30 (1.00) October 30 (3.40) Bruno Mattei, also known as director Jeff McQueen director Scott Glosserman ‘William Snyder’ and ‘Vincent Receiving its first festival screening in Just when you thought nothing Dawn’, is the auteur responsible for Horrorthon, this brand new feature- new could be done with the slasher such lovable cinematic atrocities as length documentary from director sub-genre in this post-Scream era, Rats: Night of Terror (a giant-rats-take- Jeff McQueen, writer Adam Rockoff along comes director Scott over-the-world epic) and Hell of the and producer Rachel Belofsky provides Glosserman’s cleverly constructed Living Dead (cross-dressers versus a comprehensive and original look at mockumentary. Imagine a world in zombies). Cruel Jaws is his uniquely the importance, prominence and which Freddie Krueger, Jason inept take on the giant shark attack newfound legitimacy of the horror Voorhees and Michael Myers are real. movie. A tiger shark bred by the film sub-genre known as the ‘slasher’ Lesley Vernon (Nathan Baesel) wants US Navy as a killing machine is film. This pop culture phenomenon to follow in the infamous footsteps wrecking havoc in the sleepy tourist delighted fans with its iconic of that legendary psycho trio. So he town of Hampton Bay. Not having psychopaths, gory special effects, has given a documentary crew huge resources, Bruno borrows brainless teenagers in peril and more exclusive access to his life as he footage from virtually all the than a dash of soft-core sex. With plans his reign of terror over the legitimate Jaws movies and steals their unconventional methods of sleepy town of Glen Echo. Leslie even more liberally from Enzo production, distribution, exhibition charms the film-makers as he Castellari’s The Last Shark, the and marketing, these films had an describes the tricks of his murderous source of almost all the action scenes enormous impact on modern cinema. trade, even deconstructing the involving sharks, helicopters and The intelligent and entertaining conventions and archetypes of the boat races. Around this ‘found’ history features interviews with horror genre for them. Featuring footage, Bruno spins a ludicrous tale John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Rob Robert Englund in a spot-on Donald involving a dubious real estate agent Zombie and other key film-makers. Pleasance take-off and Scott Wilson and mafia operatives who take on There’s also some choice clips from as a celebrity slasher past his prime, the big fish. So brazen is Mattei that Halloween, Prom Night, Last House on Behind the Mask is a cool, confident he even has one of his characters the Left and many other films. and well-crafted treat for all horror utter the line “We’re going to need a U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. aficionados. bigger helicopter!” 90 MIN. U.S.A., 2006. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. ITALY-U.S.A., 1995. COLOUR. DIGITAL Producer Rachel Belofsky will 92 MIN. VIDEO. 93 MIN. introduce the screening.

Belfast QFT Sun Nov 5 Plus BAN THE SADIST VIDEOS II a follow-up to last year’s excellent look at the moral panic caused by so-called video nasties. HORRORTHON 26-30 OCTOBER horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 10

THE DEVIL RIDES OUT CELLO POLTERGEIST (70MM) (CHELLO HONGMIJOO ILGA) October 30 (5.20) IRISH PREMIERE October 30 (9.00) director Terence Fisher October 30 (7.00) director Tobe Hooper Dennis Wheatley’s rambling novel is director Lee Woo-chul Produced by intelligently adapted by screenwriter Like so many East Asian films we’ve and directed by Tobe Hooper, this Richard Matheson and directed with seen in the West, South Korean genuinely spooky supernatural considerable skill by Hammer’s best director Lee Woo-chul’s Cello is a thriller is everything that the likes of house stylist, Terence Fisher. Set in supernatural ghost story. Hong The Amityville Horror can only dream the mid-1920s, The Devil Rides Out Mi-ju is a college lecturer and cellist. of being. It takes place in Spielberg’s is a classic tale of good versus evil As the film opens, she is rattled by favourite terrain, the American and follows the attempts of the news of an old friend, Tae-in. It suburb, where a haunted house is aristocratic Duc de Richeleau appears that she has a bitter memory occupied by a fairly normal family. (Christopher Lee) to rescue a young involving Tae-in’s accidental death Before long, weird events begin to friend who has fallen in with a group many years ago. When her daughter happen as the house is invaded by of Satanists led by a charismatic acquires a cello and shows an something inside the family’s figure simply known as Mocata unhealthy interest in it, Mi-ju learns television set. Then all hell breaks (Charles Gray). The Duc ends up that her family is put under threat by loose as the plot takes off into a fighting for nothing less than his a supernatural force. The cello, a delirious fight with demonic forces friend’s soul when he encounters musical instrument whose shape suggestive of nothing so much as a the Devil himself during a secret resembles a human torso, is here Walt Disney horror movie. Hooper’s initiation ceremony. Christopher Lee used as a mirror-like medium upon brand of visceral terror doesn’t get has never been better than as the which the moral hypocrisies of a much of a look in as the film grim opponent of Satanism, while middle-class Korean family are develops into a spectacular, special- director Fisher pushes the material reflected. Much like Kubrick’s The effects-laden sound and light show beyond melodrama to encompass a Shining, this visually beautiful film that has Spielberg’s visual signature full-scale allegorical vision. makes excellent use of décor to painted all over it. All the sound and U.K., 1967. COLOUR. 95 MIN. capture an overwhelming sense of fury should pack quite a punch in isolation and a descent into madness. this ultra-rare 70mm presentation. SOUTH KOREA, 2005. SUBTITLED. U.S.A., 1982. COLOUR. ANAMORPHIC. COLOUR. DIGITAL VIDEO. 94 MIN. DOLBY STEREO. 114 MIN.

SHOWN ON 70MM

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LAMBERTO BAVA ‘MASTERS OF HORROR’ GUEST OF HONOUR AND ANDREW DEANE Born in Rome in 1944, Horrorthon is proud to showcase three programmes of Lamberto Bava is the son of work from the ‘Masters of Horror’ series, including Italian horror-film director world premieres of Carpenter’s Pro-Life, Landis’s Family, Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Blood Argento’s Pelts, Hooper’s Damned Thing and Anderson’s and Black Lace). He began his Sounds Like. We’re also pleased to welcome Andrew professional career working as Deane as a special festival guest. Andrew is an Executive an assistant director for his Producer of ‘Masters of Horror’ and a partner in Industry father (, Bay of Blood) as well as Dario Entertainment, one of the chief production companies Argento (Inferno, Tenebre). In 1980 he was assistant director behind the series. The ‘Masters of Horror’ series of one- on ’s notorious Cannibal Holocaust, and hour films brings together some of the greatest horror also that year made his own directing debut with Macabre. film writers and directors. Now in its second season, the Produced by , Macabre was inspired by a series has already produced significant new films by John 1970s incident in New Orleans and is about a woman who Landis, John Carpenter, Dario Argento, Brad Anderson, keeps her lover’s severed head in her freezer. Like many of Takashi Miike, Tobe Hooper and many others. Lamberto’s subsequent films, Macabre combines elements of the thriller and the horror movie. This is true of his JULIAN RICHARDS breakthrough hit Demons (1985), which was produced by A graduate of The National Film School Julian Richards’ Dario Argento. Two sequels followed, but by the late latest feature, The Last Horror Movie (2003) won over twelve 1980s Italian genre cinema was in crisis and, along with international festival awards and became Fangoria maga- most of his colleagues, Lamberto turned to working in zine’s first US theatrical release. Director of Darklands. television. Happily, the last year has seen him returning to cinema features, with both The Torturer and Ghost Son RACHEL BELOFSKY due for release in 2006. We are pleased to welcome Producer of Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Lamberto to this year’s Horrorthon, where he will Slasher Film. introduce a selection of his films and partake in a discussion about his career. supported by Many thanks to Bruno at the Italian Cultural Institute for the great support of films at the IFI, and for their assistance in bringing Lamberto Bava to Dublin.

TOUR TO BELFAST WWW.QUEENSFILMTHEATRE.COM The QFT Cinema in Belfast will screen the following highlights:

The Lost Friday Nov 3 The Torturer Sunday Nov 5 Countess Dracula Saturday Nov 4 Carrie Monday Nov 6 An IFI Touring package Nature Morte Saturday Nov 4 Cruel Jaws Sunday Nov 5 A Curious Incident in the Life of Uri Geller Sunday Nov 5 Surprise Sunday Nov 5 horror_2006_v2 21/09/2006 17:49 Page 12