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.
23 February 2018
The sequel to "Candyman" leaves the urban setting of the first movie. This time, the story takes place in New Orleans in the 1990s: the son of a slave who was killed in the 19th century returns to haunt and kill people. Bill Condon ("Gods and Monsters") gives depth to...
26 January 2018
In March 2017, Cuban-born actor Tomas Milian passed away age 84. He had more than one hundred films to his name but became famous thanks to the Italian genre films of the 1960s and 1970s. Tomas Milian's breakthrough came when he started to play the villain in the so-...
29 December 2017
The 1980s saw an influx of Sword & Sorcery movies in the wake of the success of Conan the Barbarian, a film adaptation of the fantasy adventures of the 1930s pulp-fiction author Robert E. Howard. The role of the muscular brute Conan, a Nietzschean superman who...
24 November 2017
"Game of Death" is a unique case: it is the last film of Bruce Lee, who died when the film was still in production. The film being unfinished, the story was changed: a famous karate movie star has to fake his death in order to exact revenge on a gang of criminals out...
27 October 2017
Released in 1987, the first “Predator “was a big surprise: persuaded to find Schwarzenegger in a war movie following the success of “Commando”, the public discovers a Horror Sci-Fi film full of gore ... and a promising young director: John McTiernan , future king of...
29 September 2017
The American director George A. Romero left the world of the living on 16 June. This B-Z is a posthumous tribute to the godfather of the modern zombie movie. Thanks to Romero, the zombie, a previously somewhat marginal figure from the horror pantheon, became a...
25 August 2017
Inspired by Belgian author Vanessa Morgan’s book, When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies With Killer Animals, this summer we delve into movies in which small and big creatures from the animal kingdom take on human beings. The 1970s era of the silver...
30 June 2017
The 1970s were the highlight days of car chase movies, with American trendsetters such as “French Connection” or “Bullit” and Italian low budget police films (poliziotteschi). In this last genre, "Poliziotto sprint" is exceptional because the film is such a...
9 June 2017
La Edad de Oro del Fantaterror Espagñol (the Golden Age of Spanish Horror film) lasted from 1968 to 1977, which ironically coincides with the last 10 years of the Franco dictatorship. While in cinemas the local population only could see genre films that were...
26 May 2017
In America, Trouble Ahead is the typical traffic sign that warns motorists of a danger on the road. Under this flag, we propose two films that have the interminable highways that cross the most remote corners of the United States as a setting. Mechanical...
28 April 2017
The breakthrough of youth and counter culture at the end of the sixties and start of the seventies, saw the emergence of a new phenomenon: the groupie as a mostly female, obsessive fan of pop and rock celebrities. It starts off as idolatry, sexual fantasies and...
31 March 2017
Like every year, the B-to-Z of March is linked to the festival. With famous schizophrenics as this month's theme, we present “Dr. Jekyll and His Women”, Borowczyk's highly personal and sexualised version of the classic story. A second split personality can be found in...
24 February 2017
The anthology film (also known as the omnibus or portmanteau film) is a feature film that consists of several short films, made by one or more directors. Ealing Studios' "Dead of Night" (1945) was a landmark in the history of British horror. Amicus Productions, rival...
27 January 2017
The vigilante film is one of cinema's most controversial subgenres, featuring heroes that take the law into their own hands.With Quentin Tarantino as a big fan, "Rolling Thunder" is one of the best known examples of the genre. In some way a "Taxi Driver Part 2" it...
30 December 2016
John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China" was a rather unusual film at the time of its release. A mixture of redneck-adventure comedy with fantastic martial arts, in the spirit of Tsui Hark's "Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain", still underestimated by western...
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