B-to-Z double bill at Cinematek | Offscreen
Every last Friday of the month, we collaborate with the Cinematek's B-to-Z rendez-vous in Brussels, a moment in the history of alternative cinema that shouldn't be missed. Unearthed from the dark recesses of the archive: hilarious B-movies, blood-chilling thrillers, Gialli, slashers and other exploitation cinema gems… Take advantage of the 2-for-1: two films with a common theme for the price of a single ticket.
28 April 2023
Dead of Night from 1945 serves as the precursor to the anthology film (feature films consisting of several short films, often interconnected by a common thread that gives the entire film coherence) in the genre of fantasy film. In the 1960s-1970s, the genre...
31 March 2023
You can't keep a good robot down! This year's film festival may be over drawing to a close, but our robot theme carries on at Cinematek with a robo-centric B to Z double-bill.
25 March 2022
The American actor Jeffrey Combs (born 1954) is inextricably linked to cosmic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. This is mainly thanks to director Stuart Gordon, who cast him in the leading role in 1985's Re-Animator; Combs plays Herbert West, a deranged...
29 October 2021
British actress Joan Collins launched her film career in the 1950s, achieved cult status with genre films in the 1970s (Tales From The Crypt, Empire of The Ants) and became a global celebrity in her role of the ice-cold vamp...
24 September 2021
In the real world, most of us feel quite secure about humanity's place at the top of the food chain. Yet there is no shortage of films reminding us what tasty snacks we might be for other predators. Violent pushback from the animal kingdom was one of the most common...
27 August 2021
After making his mark with the horror-comedy Fright Night, Tom Holland once again impressed 1980s fans of the genre with Child's Play. Chucky, the killer doll possessed by a serial killer, became a popular horror icon who would pop back for countless...
30 July 2021
This evening’s two fillms were made on budgets bigger than those of the average B-movie, but were nevertheless conceived in the spirit of the genre.Explorers stands out amid a flurry of films inspired by E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At first sight, it...
25 June 2021
Demons are perhaps the oldest antagonists in the horror genre, but their real breakthrough as a film subgenre in its own right came in the 1970s with the surge of satanic horror following the box office success of The Exorcist. In this B-Z, we present two...
25 September 2020
November marks the US presidential election at a time when the United States has never been more torn. But the land of the free and the home of the brave has been an illusion for some time. Criticism of the American dream was seeping into genre and exploitation films...
28 August 2020
As you may know, the Offscreen Film Festival was hit by the Covid-19 bomb on March 13. Now that society and the film sector are slowly coming out of lockdown, we can resume some Offscreen activities, including the B to Z screenings at Cinematek. Because the number of...
31 July 2020
As you may know, the Offscreen Film Festival was hit by the Covid-19 bomb on March 13. Now that society and the film sector are slowly coming out of lockdown, we can resume some Offscreen activities, including the B to Z screenings at Cinematek. Because the number of...
26 June 2020
Where there’s ‘time travel’, there are also ‘time travellers’! This month’s B-Z double-bill - continuing Offscreen Film Festival’s thematic module - presents two alpha male specimens for the price of one: a floppy-haired blond prehistoric warrior from the future...
28 February 2020
Michael Winner's "Death Wish" and John Milius' "Red Dawn" are two ambiguous movies that were considered fascist upon release. They reflected the American paranoia and security, linked to the second amendment.The screenplay of "Death Wis"h excited Winner because "it had...
31 January 2020
Strange creatures are lurking in the shadows...The monsters that the legendary Peplum hero Maciste confronts in "Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules" were already extravagant in the 1960s, but nowadays, they bring about the biggest of sneers. They belong to...
27 December 2019
For the last B to Z of 2019, we set the silver screen ablaze with two movies about heat, flames, and fire, guaranteed to leave a burning impression on the viewers' retinas.Already in 1961, the science fiction film “The Day The Earth Caught Fire” presented us with a...
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