Tag: Exploitation
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by Adam Page There is a certain kind of cinema that gets under your skin, feeling like a splinter you can’t quite locate. It’s persistent, irritating and slightly beautiful in its wrongness. Italian giallo is that kind of cinema. It’s operatic, garish, and morally unhinged. The sort of movie-making that makes you feel a little…
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by Laura Barnes Read Part 1 here. Merkurio “You have a black heart!” Sébastien Pesle’s Merukurio is a curious little thing. With its minimalistic dialogue and its black and white colouring, it’s almost like a Charlie Chaplin film – that is, if Charlie Chaplin starred in movies about male escorts getting kidnapped and enslaved by…
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by Laura Barnes Depravity merchants Interference Films are back, and this time they’ve taken over Manchester’s Cultplex Cinema for a whole weekend. The result is a room full of black t-shirts, skull tattooes, and Grindcore bursting from the speakers. We’re lightyears away from Sundance with this one, folks. Interference Fest is about showcasing the best…
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by Laura Barnes “This whole city’s goin’ to hell!” the thick Brooklyn accent bursts from Cultplex’s speakers. “Ya can’t take a pee anywhere!” And the cinema erupts into laughter, unrestrained and infectious. Tonight, Cultplex has been taken over by the motley crew over at Interference Films, a Manchester-based collective dedicated to sourcing and screening lost…
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By Mary Morgan @msmarymorgan Give me vengeance and give me death! Give me bloody women! You can often find me cheering for blood as credits fade to black and the lights come up, revealing my absolute undying bloodlust. But it’s so much more than just loving my avenging women and their blood-soaked hands. I am,…
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by Isabelle Cocozza “If Tura’s story doesn’t inspire you, I don’t know what will. If you love Charlie’s Angels, you can trace that back to Tura. If you love Quentin Tarantino films, you can trace that back to Tura – all roads lead back to Tura. Her impact was enormous.” – Cody Jarrett Cody Jarrett’s…
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by Megan Hilborne “Exposure. That’s the only thing that works. Everything else is just talk. You have to have to courage to stay in the situation that frightens. And then you’ll learn that fear isn’t dangerous.”(von Trier, Antichrist, 2009) European extreme cinema has been described as the “cinéma du corps” (Palmer, 2011, p. 57) translating…
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