Cinema

Daleks' Invasion Earth
2150 A.D.
Sun 5 May, 16:00
After Dr. Who And The Daleks became a British box office hit
in 1965, producers Milton Subotsky and Max J. Rosenberg
quickly set to work on a sequel. Bringing back Peter Cushing
for the lead role and Scottish director Gordon Flemyng to
helm the project, the second outing again adapts one of the
BBC serials. Dr. Who and his companions (including Bernard
Cribbins as a baffled police constable) travel into the future to
discover that the Earth has been overrun by the Daleks, with
the human race enslaved. Teaming up with underground
resistance groups, can the time travellers foil the Daleks' plan
to mine the Earth's core? As DVD Drive-In accurately sums
up “the films are good juvenile fun with dazzling sets, a
decent amount of action and the great Peter Cushing playing
the Doctor in his own, unique and affable way.”
Dir: Gordon Flemyng
UK 1966 / 1h24m / Digital / English / U
Kiss of the Damned
Preview
Sun 5 May, 20:45
Following the acclaimed documentary Z Channel: A
Magnificent Obsession, Xan Cassavetes makes her fictional
feature debut with a film that pays homage to arthouse
vampire classics such as Harry Kümel's Daughters of
Darkness and the late Tony Scott's The Hunger. Djuna
(Josephine de La Baume) is a beautiful vampire who tries to
resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter
Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia). Eventually they give in to their
passion and a whirlwind romance ensues, but their
relationship is thrown into turmoil when Djuna’s sister Mimi
(Roxane Mesquida) comes to visit. Indiewire says that Kiss
of the Damned “weaves an intoxicating spell... rarely seen
outside of shopworn VHS tapes of old European horror
movies.” This screening will be preceded by a chance to see
Run (UK 2012, 7m), directed by Mat Johns.
Dir: Xan Cassavetes
USA 2012 / 1h37m / Digital / English / cert tbc
24 www.dca.org.uk
The ABCs Of Death
Sun 5 May, 18:00
Twenty-six short films, from 26 directors, illustrating 26 ways
to die in what Fangoria describe as “a stunning roll call of
some of the most exciting names in horror across the world”.
Xavier Gens (The Divide), Ben Wheatley (Kill List) Ti West (The
House Of The Devil), Simon Rumley (Red, White and Blue)
and Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun) are among the
filmmakers who contributed to perhaps the most ambitious
anthology movie ever conceived. The directors were given
free reign in choosing a word starting with each letter from
the alphabet to create a story involving death. Provocative,
shocking, funny and ultimately confrontational, The ABCs Of
Death is the definitive vision of modern horror diversity. The
BBFC have rated this film 18, due to “strong violence, gore,
sex, sexual violence and hard drug use.” You have been
warned.
Dirs: Various
USA-New Zealand 2012 / 2h4m / Digital / English / 18
Body Double
Sun 5 May, 22:30
De Palma may have followed the bombastic gangster epic
Scarface with this relatively small-scale thriller, but the
filmmaker continued to court controversy with an unflinching
blend of violence and sexuality. A string of bad luck finds
actor Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) fired from a low-budget
horror movie and homeless after discovering his girlfriend's
infidelity. Things start to look up when he finds himself
house-sitting, with a neighbour who dances erotically in front
of her window every night, but Jake notices another man is
also watching her. Seduction, mystery, and murder follow.
Critics were harsh on Body Double when it was originally
released in 1984, with many complaining that the plot is a
blatant combination of Rear Window and Vertigo. This may
be true, but De Palma's stylish cinematography, black
humour and film industry in-jokes make the film his own,
underrated classic.
Dir: Brian De Palma
USA 1984 / 1h54m / Digital / English / 18