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20 Come and See.../New British Cinema Quarterly ENTER THE DRAGON THE EVIL DEAD FLYING BLIND Come and See... A monthly one-off screening of a great film we simply thought you might like to see, again or for the first time, on the big screen. Enter The Dragon Tue 16 Apr at 8.45pm Robert Clouse • Hong Kong/USA 1973 • 1h38m Digital projection • 18 Cast: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri, Kien Shih. A new digital restoration of one of the most popular kung fu films ever, rescheduled after we had to cancel our planned screening in February. Perhaps the peak of the famed Bruce Lee’s career, Enter the Dragon achieved success by presenting a series of superbly staged fighting sequences with a minimum of distractions. The story finds Lee as a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for his sister’s death. This evil villain operates from a fortified island manned by a team of crack martial artists, who also host a kung fu competition. Lee uses his skills to enter the contest and then tries to chop, kick, and otherwise fight his way into the dealer’s headquarters. The story is, of course, merely an excuse for showdown after showdown, featuring masterly fighting by Lee in a wide variety of martial arts styles. Essential viewing for martial arts fans, the film was also embraced by a larger audience, thanks to a fast pace and higher-than-usual production values. The Evil Dead (1981) Tue 30 Apr at 8.30pm Sam Raimi • USA 1981 • 1h25m • Digital projection • 18 Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly. This auspicious feature debut from Sam Raimi – shot on 16mm in the woods of Tennessee for around $350,000 – secured the young director’s cult status as a creative force to be reckoned with. The nominal plot involves five vacationing college kids making an unplanned stopover in an abandoned mountain cabin surrounded by impenetrable woods. Before settling in for the night, they come across an ancient-looking occult tome filled with dense hieroglyphics and macabre illustrations, a dagger fashioned from human bones, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder. The taped message, dictated by a professor of archaeology, describes the contents of the Sumerian ‘Book of the Dead’, filled with incantations used to bring otherworldly demons to life, giving them license to possess the living. The message goes on to explain that those possessed by these demons can only be stopped by total bodily dismemberment. When played among the group later that evening, the professor’s recorded translations of the ritual chants traumatise the strangely prescient Shelly... and simultaneously release an ominous presence from the depths of the forest. Much copied but never bettered, this classic 80s horror is even scarier on the big screen! New British Cinema Quarterly Taking the most distinctive and original British films and filmmakers from the festival circuit and bringing them to the UK’s flagship independent cinemas. www.nbcq.co.uk Flying Blind Sat 27 Apr at 6.10pm Katarzyna Klimkiewicz • UK 2012 • 1h28m Digital projection • cert tbc Cast: Helen McCrory, Najib Oudghiri, Kenneth Cranham, Tristan Gemmill, Lorcan Cranitch. Frankie (Helen McCrory) is in her forties, single, ambitious and with a successful career in the aerospace industry designing surveillance drones for the military. She embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student twenty years younger than her. But one day when she arrives at work she is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Frankie’s well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as she no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Katarzyna Klimkiewicz.
Dead by Dawn: The Prelude/Dead by Dawn 21 THE DARK HOURS Dead by Dawn: The Prelude Dead by Dawn, Scotland’s International Horror Film Festival, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and to celebrate we’ve been showing a few of our favourite movies from previous editions. Here’s the final screening before the festival itself kicks off on 25 April! www.deadbydawn.co.uk The Dark Hours Sun 7 Apr at 9.00pm Paul Fox • Canada 2005 • 1h20m • Format TBC • 18 Cast: Kate Greenhouse, Bruce McFee, Jeff Seymour, David Calderisi. On a weekend at their cabin, psychiatrist Dr Samantha Goodman, her husband and her sister get a surprise visit from one of Sam’s ex patients. Having had enough of having his head shrunk by the good doctor, Harlan’s purpose runs deeper than just a simple desire for revenge... While it’s possible to watch The Dark Hours strictly as a tense as hell thriller, there’s a lot more going on here than meets the eye. It manages to include explorations of infidelity, accountability, gender politics and modern psychiatry. Add in some beautiful moody cinematography, disconcerting sound design, a great supporting cast and an ambiguous and thought provoking finale, and you’ve got a rarity – a smart, harrowing film relying (mostly) on nuance and intelligence to make you squirm. MODUS ANOMALI Scotland’s International Horror Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary! This year’s edition kicks off with a late night screening on Thursday 25 April and runs til late on Sunday 28. Passes for the whole festival (priced at a non-scary £75) are on sale now from Filmhouse box office. Tickets for individual screenings will go on sale later, after the final programme is confirmed. For more information about the festival and programme updates, sign up to our mailing list at www.deadbydawn.co.uk, or check www.filmhousecinema.com in mid-April. In the meantime, here are just a few of the films that’ll be keeping you awake all weekend... EVIL DEAD II Dead Shadows David Cholewa • France 2012 • 1h15m French with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Fabian Wolfrom, John Fallon, Blandine Marmigère. A Parisian IT tech who’s scared of the dark has the worst night of his life when a mysterious comet causes all the lights to go out... Modus Anomali Joko Anwar • Indonesia 2012 • 1h27m • 18 Cast: Rio Dewanto, Hannah Al Rashid, Aridh Trimata, Izzi Isman. A man wakes up in a shallow grave and uncovers evidence of a brutal murder. He doesn’t know where or who he is, or why he’s been buried in the forest, but all sorts of grisly little clues start to pop up... The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh Rodrigo Gudiño • Canada 2012 • 1h22m • 18 Cast: Aaron Poole, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Richings. Leon, an antiques collector, inherits a house that belonged to his mother, a member of a mysterious cult that worshipped angels – a cult that may have indirectly lead to her death. Evil Dead II Sam Raimi • USA 1987 • 1h24m • No dialogue • 15 Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks. Reading from the Book of the Dead has unleashed an onslaught of demons, and our hero Ash (the one and only Bruce Campbell) finds himself stuck in a cabin fighting against the forces of evil.
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