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SUN MON TUES Wed thurs fri SAT OCTOBER SPeCTACLe • 124 S. 3RD St. BROOKLYN, NY 1 7:30 2 3 5$ MOVIES • SPECTACLETHEATER.COM 7:30 THIS LONG CENTURY PRESENTS: 7:30 the HAUNTED CASTLE THE IRON ROSE // LIFE LIKE THE HOUSE OF HATE PT. 1 Aïda Ruilova in attendance! 10:00 10:00 10:00 BLACK CAT MANSION TROUBLE EVERY DAY WILD SIDE MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT GHOSTS OF SHRIEK SHOW PAST: WILD SIDE - STUDIO EDIT 555 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3:00 8:00 7:30 7:30 8:00 7:30 7:30 FIST CHURCH Without a future: passage house of hate pt. 1 cryptic carousel VARIOLA VERA white of the eye an evening with 5:00 ISIAH MEDINA 10:00 10:00 10:00 MORBO 10:00 wolf’s chalet morbo ferat vampire the destroying angel 7:30 midnight midnight FERAT VAMPIRE GHOSTS OF SHRIEK SHOW PAST: ballet down the the undertaker highway and his pals 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 5:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 the haunted castle the night before trouble every day Millennium film the house of hate pt. 2 wild side BAKENEKO: workshop presents: A VENGEFUL SPIRIT Jacob Burkhardt 7:30 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 wolf’s chalet the destroying angel BAKENEKO: jacob burkhardt in attendance! Black cat mansion passage variola vera A VENGEFUL SPIRIT 10:00 midnight midnight ballet down the GHOSTS OF SHRIEK SHOW PAST: the night before highway Headless eyes 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 3:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 all day FIST CHURCH morbo ballet down the millennium film ferat vampire wolf’s chalet highway workshop presents: Spectacle 5:00 Roberta Friedman & shriek show V the house of hate pt. 1 10:00 10:00 Grahame Weinbren 10:00 10:00 black cat mansion the night before white of the eye black cat mansion 7:30 friedman and weinbren the house of hate pt. 2 in attendance! midnight 10:00 GHOSTS OF SHRIEK SHOW PAST: the haunted castle MARLEY’S REVENGE 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 5:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 ferat vampire wild side MIL KDU DES // M A P millennium film the destroying angel passage spectacle workshop presents: HALLOWEEN PARTY @ Tim Geraghty HOPES & FEARS 7:30 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 BAKENEKO: white of the eye MIL KDU DES // M A P tim geraghty in attendance! the house of hate pt. 2 wolf’s chalet A VENGEFUL SPIRIT 10:00 (join us) variola vera midnight trouble every day On the cover: The Haunted Castle, Tokuzô Tanaka, 1969 Black Cat Mansion, Nobuo Nakagawa, 1958 Wolf’s Chalet, Vera Chytilová, 1987 Without A Future: An Evening With Isiah Medina CATS IN THE CRADLE (TO THE BOHEMIAN DELIRIUM: Czech Horror CAMMELL AFTER DARK GRAVE): 3 Japanese Ghost Stories in the 80s and 90s Scottish filmmaker Donald Cammell (1934 - 1996) was many things - a child of the aristocracy, a Crowley-inflected mystic who worked with the likes of Our Japanese Ghost Story series returns with three bakeneko-mono (ghost- Before Soviet tanks rolled in, crushing the Prague Spring (and proposals for Kenneth Anger, a skeptic of auteurism, a man described by Roman Polanski cat stories), one of the most popular sub-genres of kaidan. All three films democratic elections) in 1968, Czech’s New Wave hit international recognition, as “wicked”. This October, Spectacle is pleased to present two direly under- involve a woman wronged by a feudal lord and ruthlessly murdered or driven producing deliciously outré masterpieces like Vera Chytilova’s anarchic DAISIES sung classics from this late cine-provocateur. to suicide. As she lies dying, she urges her cat to lap up her blood. The cat and Juraj Herz’s macabre satire THE CREMATOR. This series is about what transforms into her avenging spirit and proceeds to bring misery and death happened after, when those same visionary directors refused to go away. For WILD SIDE: Dir. Donald Cammell, 1995. US.110 mins (Director’s Cut), 95 mins (Nu Image to the Lord’s castle. Chytilova and Herz it meant decades of fighting to get some of their best and re-edit). WILD EDIT: 10/3 10:00p • 10/16 7:30p • 10/26 7:30p STUDIO EDIT: 10/3 MIDNIGHT most radical films made, first under Communist restriction and then against the A beyond-salacious slab of psycho-noir starring Anne Heche as “Alex”, BLACK CAT MANSION: Dir. Nobuo Nakagawa, 1958. Japan, 69 min. In Japanese new funding complications of capitalism. Perhaps this is why both found success a Long Beach investment banker-cum-sex worker for the rich and with English subtitles. 10/1 10:00p • 10/19 10:00p • 10/23 10:00p with 80s forays into genre cinema, where official oversight was lower than in powerful. Tonight, that means shadowy millionaire money launderer A major influence on HAUSU, BLACK CAT MANSION contains an extended ‘serious’ filmmaking. Bruno (Christopher Walken, plus wig) – and perhaps also his valet, sleazy present-day sequence bookending its Edo-period tale. A doctor relocates to undercover cop Tony (Steven Hauer). When Alex meets Bruno’s wife Virginia an old country mansion to care for his sick wife. Both begin to experience (Joan Chen), Cammell upturns expectations for late-nite sleaze into a bizarre hallucinations and consult a monk, who relates the tragic history FERAT VAMPIRE: Dir. Juraj Herz, 1981. Czechoslovakia, 94 min. surprisingly tender, crushingly desperate queer love story. After Nu Image 10/4 7:30p • 10/10 10:00p • 10/22 7:30p • 10/25 5:00p of the mansion: a tale of a jealous lord, a blind monk, his distraught sister, Productions wrested control of WILD SIDE away from Cammell and recut the A sinister car corporation prepares to launch the Vampire, a flashy, modernist and a possessed cat. Featuring near-psychedelic set pieces pointing the way film into a schizoid quasi-porn, the filmmaker took his own life. In 2000, his sports car with very peculiar engineering, mysteriously low gas requirements, towards Nakagawa’s JIGOKU, made two years later. widow China Kong supervised a painstaking, posthumous recut with editor and a flurry of marketable rumors of death and danger that the international Frank Mazzola. Spectacle is thrilled to present both the damned and saved press eats up. An ambulence driver (director Jiri Menzel) suspects something BAKENEKO: A VENGEFUL SPIRIT (aka THE CURSED SWAMP): versions of WILD SIDE. Dir. Yoshihiro Ishikawa, 1968. Japan, 86 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. is up after ex-racecar driver partner (Dagmar Havlová, later first lady of the Czech Republic) falls under the spell of the prototype. Soon, both are drawn 10/13 10:00p • 10/25 7:30p WHITE OF THE EYE: Dir. Donald Cammell, 1987. UK/US, 110 min. Lord Nabeshima demands young Yujiki become his concubine. When she into a stylish surrealist noir of hidden motives, doubles, corporate marketing 10/10 7:30p • 10/22 10:00p • 10/26 10:00p refuses to submit, he murders her and her fiancé. Yujiki’s cat becomes machinations, and Cronenbergian bio-mechanical terror. As reality dissolves, Cammell described his adaptation of pulp novel Mrs. White as “an artistic her avenging spirit, possessing one of Nabeshima’s wives and murdering even the logical linking scenes get taken over by absurdist vignettes of our exploration of man’s need to destroy.” Family man David Keith is suspected his vassals, concubines, and only son. Beginning in a quietly haunting vein uneasy symbiosis with the automotive world. of being a gated-community serial killer; Cathy Moriarty (RAGING BULL) reminiscent of UGETSU, BAKENEKO descends into a nightmarish parade of stars as his wife. Scored by Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason, it’s a unique case study splattered blood, decapitations and ghosts gnawing on severed limbs. in onscreen violence, alienating Southwestern landscapes and characters WOLF’S CHALET: Dir. Vera Chytilová, 1987. Czechoslovakia, 92 min. 10/7 10:00p • 10/11 7:30p • 10/23 7:30p • 10/30 10:00p carrying aching contradictions. THE HAUNTED CASTLE (aka SECRET CHRONICLES OF THE WOLF’S CHALET opens as a teen ski movie, with all attendant behavior patterns GHOST-CAT): Dir. Tokuzô Tanaka, 1969. Japan, 82 min. In Japanese with English familiar from the American 80s in evidence. But it gets better: the instructors at WITHOUT A FUTURE: subtitles. 10/1 7:30p • 10/11 5:00p • 10/21 10:00p the remote alpine camp are not what they seem, strange events occur overnight, A bloodier retelling of BLACK CAT MANSION, but THE HAUNTED CASTLE’s and soon the teens are turning on one another as ambiguous tensions and An Evening With Isiah Medina unique and elaborate visual style, marked by disorienting zooms and elaborate mysterious dread overtake the story. Chytilova manages to inject a further layer 10/5 8:00p • ONE NIGHT ONLY tracking shots, wouldn’t be out of place in a giallo. Much of the film take place of political allegory in the wild mix, while assuring you’ll never look at a snow In the cut we do not see a future, but we present the present. Thinking in near-total darkness, illuminated only by slivers of candlelight and lightning man the same way again. through different cuts in the cinema side by side with a selection of short flashes. Director Tokuzô Tanaka was an assistant director on RASHOMON, films by Isiah Medina - director of the spellbinding new 88:88, we attempt to UGETSU and SANSHO THE BAILIFF, and later directed THE SNOW WOMAN.