Following the exciting announcement that Tony Todd will be a guest of honor at this year's Salem Horror Fest, the full lineup for the anticipated festival has now been revealed, including the new documentary Satan Wants You and retrospective screenings of Fright Night: Part II, The Fog (1980), The Blood on Satan's Claw, and more!
Exclusively announced on Fangoria, you can check out the full lineup of films and events for this year's Salem Horror Fest on their official website, and we also have the official press release with additional details:
Press Release: Salem Ma - March 13, 2023 - Named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the “best genre festivals in the world,” Salem Horror Fest has announced the full lineup for their sixth annual presentation, which kicks off on Thursday, April 20, and runs through Sunday, April 30.
The official program begins with a featured showcase of Satan Wants You, a new documentary...
Exclusively announced on Fangoria, you can check out the full lineup of films and events for this year's Salem Horror Fest on their official website, and we also have the official press release with additional details:
Press Release: Salem Ma - March 13, 2023 - Named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the “best genre festivals in the world,” Salem Horror Fest has announced the full lineup for their sixth annual presentation, which kicks off on Thursday, April 20, and runs through Sunday, April 30.
The official program begins with a featured showcase of Satan Wants You, a new documentary...
- 3/20/2023
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Every so often, a movie comes along that sends culinarily inclined audiences into rapture — “Babette’s Feast,” “Big Night” or “Like Water for Chocolate” spring to mind — getting eyes glistening and mouths watering in anticipation of a meal that only the characters will ever taste. “Flux Gourmet” is not that foodie movie. In fact, “Flux Gourmet” may well send audiences running for the loo, or else reaching for the barf bag, coming about as close to triggering the gag reflux as a film can without actually jamming a finger down your throat.
It’s doubtful that was quite the intention of writer-director Peter Strickland, the content-with-cult-status auteur behind “Berberian Sound Studio” and “In Fabric.” And yet, somewhere around the scene where alimentary performance artist Elle di Elle (Fatma Mohamad) unscrews a stool sample cup and smears the dark chocolaty goo all over her face, audiences will be making like the sickly green Nauseated Face emoji,...
It’s doubtful that was quite the intention of writer-director Peter Strickland, the content-with-cult-status auteur behind “Berberian Sound Studio” and “In Fabric.” And yet, somewhere around the scene where alimentary performance artist Elle di Elle (Fatma Mohamad) unscrews a stool sample cup and smears the dark chocolaty goo all over her face, audiences will be making like the sickly green Nauseated Face emoji,...
- 2/12/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Above: 1965 Czech poster for Three Fables of Love (Blasetti, Bromberger, Clair, Berlanga, Italy/Spain, 1962). Designer: Karel Teissig.Two events provoked this article. First of all, last week I saw the wonderful 1963 Czech fable The Cassandra Cat (a.k.a. When the Cat Comes) at New York’s newest cinephile hotspot, the Metrograph. In this charming New Wave satire a cat wearing dark glasses is brought into a small town by a circus troupe and, when his glasses are removed, the townspeople are revealed in their true colors: namely neon shades of purple, yellow and pink, each representing their vices or virtues. The highlight of the film for me, aside from a psychedelic freak-out dance party in the middle of the film, comes when all the children of the town march through the street bearing large drawings of cats. Chris Marker would have loved this film.The second event was the...
- 3/30/2016
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Horror films form a very niche and minor part of Czech cinema. Despite boasting a small list of interesting horror films, such as Juraj Herz famous The Cremator or his gothic tale Morgiana, contemporary endeavours failed to please audiences and critics alike. Leaving the debate about the state of genre production in small countries aside, recently two films hit the dark rooms across the country; one armed with a heavy advertising campaign, while the other appeared seemingly out of the blue. This latter film follows a group of students investigating an abandoned -- and naturally haunted -- asylum, Saint Nicolas (the asylum and title of the film), and was done with almost no budget after a failed crowdfunding campaign, by a director lacking vocational training....
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- 3/16/2015
- Screen Anarchy
A bar-slash-cinema offering an eclectic mix of arthouse and grindhouse
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Every week we invite our readers to tell us about where they go to watch films. This week it's the turn of London-based blogger Matthew Thrift, who edits the film site Cinephile.
Location
In the heart of London, a short stroll from London Bridge station and Borough Market.
Building
Although not strictly a cinema, the Roxy boasts a top-notch HD projection set-up and ferocious sound system at the rear of the premises, where its film club is in residence most nights. The entrance on Borough High Street leads directly into the bar area, perfect for grabbing an ace mojito prior to settling in for the evening's entertainment. One of London's best-kept secrets and with something of the speakeasy feel about it, the screening room behind the thick red curtains features a higgledy-piggledy...
• Check out our Google map and flickr group
Every week we invite our readers to tell us about where they go to watch films. This week it's the turn of London-based blogger Matthew Thrift, who edits the film site Cinephile.
Location
In the heart of London, a short stroll from London Bridge station and Borough Market.
Building
Although not strictly a cinema, the Roxy boasts a top-notch HD projection set-up and ferocious sound system at the rear of the premises, where its film club is in residence most nights. The entrance on Borough High Street leads directly into the bar area, perfect for grabbing an ace mojito prior to settling in for the evening's entertainment. One of London's best-kept secrets and with something of the speakeasy feel about it, the screening room behind the thick red curtains features a higgledy-piggledy...
- 2/29/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
New Czech Cinema 2010, London
Strangeness never seems to be far away when it comes to Czech cinema. It's as if their film-makers have to pass some eccentricity test before they're entrusted with a camera. All of which makes this annual round-up more intriguing than your average national jolly. Jan Svankmajer, for example, is on agreeably surreal form in his latest live-action/animation oddity, Surviving Life, while a double bill of unsung 1960s/70s gothic horrors, The Cremator and Morgiana, recognises the unique vision of Juraj Herz. Even the historical dramas have a twist. Nazi-era Protektor benefits from retro cinematic stylings, while Three Seasons In Hell examines the impact of Communist occupation on an unrepentant bohemian poet.
Various venues, Sat to 26 Nov
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
The films are short, so there are more of them, which means more film-makers. Therefore, Bristol's harbourside becomes a seething mass of film people,...
Strangeness never seems to be far away when it comes to Czech cinema. It's as if their film-makers have to pass some eccentricity test before they're entrusted with a camera. All of which makes this annual round-up more intriguing than your average national jolly. Jan Svankmajer, for example, is on agreeably surreal form in his latest live-action/animation oddity, Surviving Life, while a double bill of unsung 1960s/70s gothic horrors, The Cremator and Morgiana, recognises the unique vision of Juraj Herz. Even the historical dramas have a twist. Nazi-era Protektor benefits from retro cinematic stylings, while Three Seasons In Hell examines the impact of Communist occupation on an unrepentant bohemian poet.
Various venues, Sat to 26 Nov
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
The films are short, so there are more of them, which means more film-makers. Therefore, Bristol's harbourside becomes a seething mass of film people,...
- 11/13/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Juraj Herz is best known for The Cremator (1968), a grim Kafkaesque tale about the rise of fascism in 1930s Czechoslovakia. In 1972, Herz went in a completely different direction with Morgiana. The film -- now available from Second Run DVD in R2 Pal format -- is a weird take on 19th century gothic horror. Morgiana lacks the narrative or symbolic depth of The Cremator, but its visual richness and dramatic excesses make for a grand viewing experience.
Klára and Viktoria -- both parts are played by Iva Janžurová -- are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klára. To add insult to injury, Klára becomes involved with a man with whom Viktoria is smitten. Eventually Viktoria decides to eliminate Klára. Her murder plot does not go smoothly.
Morgiana is based on novel by Russian author Alexansder Grin and plays with psychological themes of duality and madness. Klára and...
Klára and Viktoria -- both parts are played by Iva Janžurová -- are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klára. To add insult to injury, Klára becomes involved with a man with whom Viktoria is smitten. Eventually Viktoria decides to eliminate Klára. Her murder plot does not go smoothly.
Morgiana is based on novel by Russian author Alexansder Grin and plays with psychological themes of duality and madness. Klára and...
- 10/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Second Run DVD is a boutique label out of the U.K. that has built an extremely interesting catalog of world cinema titles. Their releases, many of which are Region 0, are immediately identifiable by their uniform packaging -- clean minimalistic covers with the title and director's name at the top in a sans serif font -- and attention to detail in transfers and supplements.
Much of the label's output has been focused on classic 60-70s films from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. This includes the upcoming release of Morgiana, a 1971 film from Czech filmmaker Juraj Herz. This is the second Juraj Herz film that Second Run has released; The Cremator from 1968 was the first.
Morgiana is described as "a twisted Czech take on Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" The story is as follows:
Morgiana, based on a short story by Aleksandr Grin, (the 'Russian Poe'), is the story of two sisters,...
Much of the label's output has been focused on classic 60-70s films from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. This includes the upcoming release of Morgiana, a 1971 film from Czech filmmaker Juraj Herz. This is the second Juraj Herz film that Second Run has released; The Cremator from 1968 was the first.
Morgiana is described as "a twisted Czech take on Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" The story is as follows:
Morgiana, based on a short story by Aleksandr Grin, (the 'Russian Poe'), is the story of two sisters,...
- 9/21/2010
- Screen Anarchy
When Federico Fellini, arguing with a diehard neo-realist about the ending of Il bidone (What, it was demanded, was a troupe of seemingly medieval peasants, doing in this post-war crime story?), received the backing of his assistant director—"You should keep it because it's beautiful!"—he rejected the supportive comment. "No—not because it's beautiful, but because it's meaningful beauty."
What I've been wrestling with recently is the question of whether meaningful beauty is to be found in the works of Slovak filmmaker Juraj Herz. I think it can, but not in a straightforward way. Since Herz started life as an art director, it's of course tempting to see the pictorial charms of his films as essentially decorative, prettifying. But there's more going on. Maybe not consistently, but interestingly.
The first Herz I saw was The Virgin and the Monster (1978), which is a straight re-telling of the Beauty and the Beast...
What I've been wrestling with recently is the question of whether meaningful beauty is to be found in the works of Slovak filmmaker Juraj Herz. I think it can, but not in a straightforward way. Since Herz started life as an art director, it's of course tempting to see the pictorial charms of his films as essentially decorative, prettifying. But there's more going on. Maybe not consistently, but interestingly.
The first Herz I saw was The Virgin and the Monster (1978), which is a straight re-telling of the Beauty and the Beast...
- 1/7/2010
- MUBI
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