OFFSCREEN ON TOUR 2023 | Offscreen
A selection of several Offscreen films at different locations.
STEEL AND LACE
When her evil yuppie rapist is found not guilty, a classical pianist commits suicide, but is resurrected by her genius brother as a killer-cyborg programmed to murder the scumbag and the buddies who gave him a fake alibi. Rape-revenge exploitation with a melancholy streak offset by some creative and surprising kills!
FACELESS
Never a dull moment in this delirious horror-thriller as wicked nurse Lahaie helps a plastic surgeon slice the faces off kidnapped women in an attempt to restore his scarred sister's beauty. An all-star cult cast also includes Helmut Berger, Caroline Munro and (phoning his scenes in from New York) Telly Savalas.
EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD
An American property developer aims to build a luxury resort on a tropical island, but the place is cursed... with flesh-eating zombies! D'Amato and Eastman (who wrote the screenplay, as well as playing a lusty skipper) combine two of their favourite genres in this horror/porn hybrid filmed in the Dominican Republic.
DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA
Filmed in hospitals around Paris, this gruesome yet stunningly beautiful documentary explores human bodies in extreme close-up as they're sliced up by medics. Micro-cameras take us inside urethras, brains and other organs for an awe-inspiring immersive experience that also pays homage to hardworking hospital staff.
NEW RELIGION
A part-time sex worker, haunted by the death of her child, takes on a mysterious new client, an insect-obsessed recluse more interested in taking ritualistic photos of body parts than in sex. But what is the ritual for? David Lynch meets Kiyoshi Kurosawa in this unsettling vision of a society destabilised by grief.
BLADE RUNNER (FINAL CUT)
This film will be introduced by journalist Kamal Messaoudi.
METOROPORISU
in which a female android called Tima struggles against a destiny in which she will be deployed as a superweapon. The cityscapes are stunning, with a retro feel that's echoed in the ragtime-adjacent score and unexpected use of a Ray Charles hit.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
The intergalactic equivalent of a UN observer lands in Washington DC and demands a stop to nuclear testing in this sci-fi allegory with religious undertones. The earthlings ignore his pleas for peace, leaving them at the mercy of a giant robot that can only be stopped with the immortal words "Klaatu barada nikto!"
THE TERMINATOR
A perfectly cast Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an unstoppable killer robot sent from the future to murder the waitress destined to give birth to humanity’s last best hope in James Cameron’s peerless SF thriller. Crammed with action and great quotes, including "I’ll be back."
LE GĖANT DE FER
During the Cold War, a young boy befriends a big metal-eating robot from outer space which crashlands near his small town, but the paranoid government sends agents to investigate. This lovely animated fable, based on a children's story by poet Ted Hughes, flopped on its release but is now hailed as a modern classic.
METROPOLIS
Lang's Expressionist silent classic reached a new generation via this Giorgio Moroder version with an 1980s pop soundtrack. Brigitte Helm plays a double role as proletarian heroine Maria and the iconic robot created in her image. See the eternal class war played out in an Art Deco setting, with a cast of thousands!
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