Offscreen on Tour 2016 | Offscreen
A selection of several films can be watched at different locations in our programme "Offscreen - on tour" !
At Liège there's even a mini-festival (see: www.offscreen-liege.be).
Singapore Sling
A symphony of the foul and the fair that savours disgust: a man searches for his lost love and falls victim to a mentally deranged mother/daughter pair in their secluded mansion. He becomes a pawn in a game of sexual domination and torture. An aesthetically pleasing atrocity exhibition, soaked in bodily fluids!
Evolution
The sole inhabitants of a mysterious island are women and little boys. Ten-year-old Nicolas starts to ask questions and digs up frightening answers. Hadzihalilovic’s latest film creates a phantasmagoric nightmare world where beauty intertwines with the grotesque, her poetic vision painted by Belgian cinematographer Manuel Dacosse.
Safe
One of the most remarkable horror features of the 90's crawls under your skin with very little bloodletting. An all-American housewife (Julianne Moore) is led to believe she’s overtly sensitive to environmental toxins. Todd Haynes (“Carol”) blends his take on paranoid delusion with sun-drenched photography.
Singapore Sling
A symphony of the foul and the fair that savours disgust: a man searches for his lost love and falls victim to a mentally deranged mother/daughter pair in their secluded mansion. He becomes a pawn in a game of sexual domination and torture. An aesthetically pleasing atrocity exhibition, soaked in bodily fluids!
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
The prim and proper housewife to a successful lawyer condones the loose morals of her promiscuous next-door neighbour, but is secretly excited by her hedonistic lifestyle. Unwillingly, she becomes the prime suspect in the police investigation of her murder. A tantalizing, psychosexual giallo by Lucio Fulci.
A la Recherche de l'Ultra-Sex
High up in their spaceship circling the earth, a team of astronauts watches helplessly on as a pandemic turns the world population into sex-crazed lunatics. This new film by the pranksters of “Message à Caractère Informatif” dubs an amalgam of vintage porn clips with a hilarious new audio track.
Possession
Their marriage in pieces, Anna and Mark's tense relationship has become a psychotic descent into screaming matches, violence and self-mutilation. The unhinged woman takes on a secret affair with a demonic, tentacled creature... A deeply unsettling experience, this psychotronic classic is not to be missed.
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
The prim and proper housewife to a successful lawyer condones the loose morals of her promiscuous next-door neighbour, but is secretly excited by her hedonistic lifestyle. Unwillingly, she becomes the prime suspect in the police investigation of her murder. A tantalizing, psychosexual giallo by Lucio Fulci.
Frankenhooker
When Jeffrey's fiancée is chopped to pieces by a lawnmower, he uses his dubious medical knowledge to try to bring her back to life. He reassembles his beloved Elizabeth using the body parts of New York's finest prostitutes, and resurrects her during a heavy lightning storm. A horror comedy classic!
Crumbs
The African plains are dominated by a hovering spacecraft. In this contemplative afro-futuristic sci-fi film, Michael Jackson, Nazi’s and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make up the ingredients that chain a love story to surreal, political antics, set in the unusual landscape of post-apocalyptic Ethiopia.
Bone Tomahawk
A search party for two missing villagers lands a gang of cowboys in the nest of a cannibalistic caveman tribe. This explosive debut film from up-and-coming prodigy S. Craig Zahler is a blood-soaked horror western that is carried by a range of cult actors, with Kurt Russell taking the lead.
Sisters
A film that set the stage for the rest of Brian de Palma's career: full of references to Alfred Hitchcock, with an ominous soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann and inspired use of split screen. De Palma took a definite turn to the suspense genre after this macabre Freudian thriller on two murderous twin sisters.
Possession
Their marriage in pieces, Anna and Mark's tense relationship has become a psychotic descent into screaming matches, violence and self-mutilation. The unhinged woman takes on a secret affair with a demonic, tentacled creature... A deeply unsettling experience, this psychotronic classic is not to be missed.
Repulsion
Carol (a twenty-year-old Catherine Deneuve) comes undone when her sister goes away for the week. Dull-eyed and distressed, she holes herself up in the vacant apartment. Polanski’s breakthrough film is a cinematic tour de force, a claustrophobic psycho thriller and a terrifying case study of female anxiety.
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