Montag, 29. April 2013

take 34. 1.5.2013

Movies for Stone-throwers

Doors open: 19h

19h- 20h

BarAnimationRussia (BAR)

 

20h15

Hungary 2000, 73 min. english subs

 Frau Plastic Chicken is the host of a popular exploitation television show called NeXXt, which serves up a variety of deviant behavior for the amusement of her viewing audience. While the hostess has arranged for a live broadcast of the arrest of Rex Madison, a notorious multiple murderer, Frau Plastic Chicken wants something even splashier for her audience, so she schedules a post-arrest interview spot, in which Madison will discuss his crimes with Alexander Grushkin, a man who claims to have been the inspiration for the character of Alex in the novel A Clockwork Orange.


So far it’s one of the most scandalous and antinomic Hungarian movies ever made.
It’s a bizarre satiric comedy and it was presented on the Hungarian Movie Week that year. So many people were shocked at the brutal scenes and bare style.
The story is a mix of American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange and the author-director’s own ideas, so partly stolen, simple but original everyhow.

This is the censored version and it doesn’t contain some brutal scenes. More than half an hour (!) is missing from the originally, uncut, 116 minute movie  - but yet there are some ’not too presentable’ actions in this version –
It hasn’t been released yet on DVD - and unfortunately, the uncut version is not available too

It’s not an amateur movie, a lot of famous Hungarian actors play in it. On the other hand, one of my favourite Hungarian movies but I know in Hungary many people can’t understand this movie, many people hate it, but many people think it’s an art film.







 

22h

Australia 1993, 80 min.

 It's a sunny day in suburbia. Suddenly a hideously deformed dying man disrupts the peace, crashing his car in a Pebbles Court neighbourhood, the better part of Homesville. He's the victim of the experimental drug Vimuville, marketed as a "dietary supplement" which has apparently malfunctioned. He has arrived too late to warn the population of Homesville not to try the pill that was dropped in their mailbox by a respectable pharmaceutical company. 

'Body Melt' is one of the most misunderstood Australian movies of all time! Director Philip Brophy, who has a background in avante garde electronic music and performance art, has created a wicked subversion of splatter movies. The film is all the better for having many Aussie soap stars and familiar faces in its cast, a fact that will probably be completely lost on overseas viewers. Just imagine your own "beloved" family favourites in the main roles and you might start to see what Brophy's done here.

Well, it isn't like Braindead. It's something new, something extremely unique and original. Really impressive if you ask me, and a whole lot of fun. I loved the inbred family, loved the "over-the-top" gore effects.

There is one thing that not many have mentioned yet, this film is clever. It isn't just some empty splatter film, it has personality and style. We never really get to know the characters that well, but it tells a good story just as well.

Oh, and it's funny. Very funny. Any movie in which a couple of deformed hillbilly kids kill a kangaroo with a rock at 1000 yards, then eat it's adreno glands to get high, has got something to say.(imdb)









 

 

 


Montag, 22. April 2013

take 33: 24.3.2013

Under the Radar

A double feature of unknown flicks.

Doors open: 20h 

 

20h15: Mexico 1991, 100 min. english subs    

 

The undervalued Alex Cox directs this underrated gem. El Patrullero follows Pedro Rojas, an initially idealistic Mexican national highway patrolman, from cadet training to his rookie assignment. Things go south south of the border as a quick courtship becomes a stormy marriage, and steady resolve gives way to moral disintegration and corruption as Pedro and his partner Anibal navigate desert highways flooded with drugs, opportunity and temptation. Abuse of power, strung out whores, routine traffic stops, the human condition, intense shootouts and public service all slam and bang on broken axles to a bloody climax of revenge and redemption. 

 

 

 

 

22h: USA 1973, 95min.

A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a monster mask while he kills and dismembers women with blond hair. Tiffany Bolling is a singer, Scott Brady is a detective and Edd "Kookie" Burns is a lifeguard. The music is the original organ score for the silent film "Phantom of the Opera."

 

Dienstag, 16. April 2013

take 32: 17.4.2013

Secret Movies

A double feature of two films too fresh to post.

Doors open 20h.

Film starts 20h15.

Dienstag, 9. April 2013

take 31:10.4.2013

Play it again!

Doors open 20h.

Film starts 20h15.

Death laid an egg

and 

another SURPRISE!

Dienstag, 2. April 2013

take 30: 3.4.2013

More Eggs, please!

A Night In Italian Acid Pulp.

Doors open 20h.

20h15, Italy 1968, ca. 90 min UNCUT

 

A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.




 

Widely regarded as the best Giallo ever done.

         


21h50, Italy 1975, 107  min, english subs

Candide is a nice, innocent young man who is raised in a castle of a noble family in Westphalia during the medieval age. Dr. Pangloss, a teacher of metaphysics and philosophy educates him and tells that he lives in the best of all possible worlds and that any apparent absurdity, misery and conflict are actually all parts of a greater good that mortals cannot perceive. The happy life of Candido changes drastically when he falls in love with the Baron's daughter Cunegonda and is caught with her. Candide is banned from the castle and starts traveling into a timeless world, searching for his lost love. Candide attempts to stay optimistic as unbelievable horrors unfold in a world full of brutality, war, slavery and sickness...

The makers of this movie base the film on a cynical satire `Candide' from the French writer Voltaire. Directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi are known for their documentaries in which they have already presented the horrors of the world: MONDO CANE (part 1 and 2), AFRICA ADDIO and the very revolting ADDIO ZIO TOM. In comparison with other shockumentaries, all these movies are very well directed, have a racy comment and contain unforgettable images. "Mondo Candido" is a masterpiece. It's sensational, sometimes shocking but you will see a series of unforgettable images, very beautifully filmed, even though they are cruel, nihilistic and pessimistic