From Thursday 11 November Thursday 16 December 2010, 7:30 pm
Location: Pasaje Hernán Velarde 179, Lima. (Height of the block 1 of Petit Thouars).
The Film Club "Eyes Open" opens a new local cycle "DARK SIDE OF THE MAN: slasher, horror, thriller and experimental psychopathy" in which we will close our program in 2010.
cycle movies meets its treatment visual, narrative and thematic approach, seeking to cause the greatest wonder in the audience, choosing starring psychopaths, serial murderers, almost always from subjective approaches, many of them taken from actual cases, or through "mockumentarys" (fake documentary), breaking the conventions of genre, failing also in the paranormal.
We close the series with a documentary about gender "Slasher" ("gutting"), which helps us to understand why the movies of that genre and its protagonists (Michael Myers "Halloween" Burgis Jason "Friday 13" , Freddy Krugger "Nightmare", etc.) arouse fascination among his followers, and why the public has a need of bloody horror stories. Just look at the history of civilization (the Roman arenas, dark novels, operas, documentaries and war correspondents, etc.). Hemophiliac understanding this habit that many sometimes confused with the sensational. Will have a talk in the end of each projection, more information about movies, genres, contexts and their impact in film and company.
Admission is free.
Thursday November 11, 2010, 7:30 pm
MAN BITES DOG (Belgium, 1992)
Director: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel , Benoit Poelvoorde.
Disturbing and controversial for his style of documentary, Man bites dog shows with realism and crudeness not seen before, the story of a group of filmmakers who decide to film a documentary about Ben, a unique serial murderer who nude before camera their daily lives ranging from playing the piano and philosophize until slaughter, rape and steal. An acid satire parody of reality TV, tabloid TV and morbid, considered as a reference for some hit movies like Murderers by nature, the project of the Blair Witch, among others.
Thursday November 18, 2010, 7:30 pm
THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES (USA - 2007)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
The FBI discovered hundreds of videotapes in an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, a small town in New York. The content of these tapes are images of torture, murder and dismemberment, becoming the most disturbing evidence of the existence of a totally different serial murderer, who has no apparent motivation to change their mode of operation constantly and without skipper chooses his victims. An excellent mockumentary about the "perfect murderer", based on a series of isolated facts.
Thursday November 25, 2010, 7:30 pm
BENNY'S VIDEO (Austria - 1992)
Director: Michael Haneke
Benny is the teenage son of a wealthy family who is not concerned so much about him, he is an emotional substitute in the world of video and slowly, imperceptibly, their values \u200b\u200band sense of reality are changing. Is pleased to see violent videos, and decides to find out what it feels like to kill. Meet a girl his age and decides to experiment their desire strangely disturbing. Before the familiar "Funny Games" Haneke raised with this film and the loss of human values \u200b\u200bin prosperous Europe and unjustified violence encouraged by the individualistic society.
Thursday December 2, 2010, 7:30 pm
LAKE MUNGO
(Australia - 2008)
Director: Joel Anderson
attached to the genre film supernatural terror, with many parts of the documentary, which tells the story of Alice, a girl of 16 who disappeared while swimming in a lake. After rescuing his lifeless body, the competent authorities issue a verdict of accidental death. Since then, his family begins to experience a series of strange and inexplicable events focusing on the inside of your home and surroundings. Concern prisoners come to seek help from a couple of parapsychologists, who find that Alice led a double life. A series of clues lead to the family of Alice to Lake Mungo, where they emerge Alice's past to light.
Thursday December 9, 2010, 7:30 pm
PEEPING TOM
(UK - 1960)
Director: Michael Powell
A psychopath photograph their victims as they die, owned and marked by hallucination for their children, because if a parent, a scientist obsessed with studying children's reactions to fear, shattered his psyche and turned him into an adult with a demonic dementia. The character needs to kill and fix the images felt terror victims in order to satisfy their morbid desires. It is considered the mother of the slasher film, and Michael Powell says that much inspired by his compatriot Hitchcock, for his masterpiece "Psycho" as both deal with a voyeuristic serial murderer.
Thursday December 16, 2010, 7:30 pm
Going to Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film
(USA - 2006).
Director: Adam Rockoff
Interesting documentary comprehensively reviewed the history of a sub-genre Slasher, who was able to deliver gems like Halloween, Friday 13th, Black Christmas, Prom Night, The Prowler and many more which, though inferior in quality, were fully entertained and win people knew at the time and even today. In the documentary you can see and hear the word of several characters from the world of horror, as John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Wes Craven, Sean S. Cunningham, Malek Akkad, Tom Savini, Rob Zombie, Amy Holden, Harry Manfredini, and many more.
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