Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival 2018 Brochure

hagazussa
Lukas Feigelfeld
102 min/ 2017 /
Germany, Austria
Sat 28/04 @ 16:00
Light House
Official Selection:
London Film Festival
Sitges Film Festival
Fantastic Fest
Dublin Sci-Fi
film Festival
A haunting meditation on witchcraft and insanity, set in 15th century Austria,
which offers a visceral and truly unique horror experience. Young Albrun lives
with her mother in an isolated mountain hut. Life is hard enough, but when
her mother falls gravely ill, Albrun is left traumatised and alone. 15 years later,
Albrun has a child of her own, but with no husband in sight she is ostracised from
her small community. As she forms a tentative friendship with a local woman,
dark memories and psychotic delusions infiltrate Albrun’s thoughts and the line
between fantasy and reality begins to blur. Although reminiscent of acclaimed
period chiller The Witch in its heady fusion of mounting paranoia against a
pagan backdrop, this hypnotic debut is quite a different beast. More abstract
in its storytelling and lyrical in its approach, it owes as much to the cinema of
Tarkovsky as it does the horror genre. – Michael Blyth, LFF
60 th anniversary:
The Fly
Kurt Neumann
94 min / 1958 / US
Sat 28/04 @ 18:00
Generator
Cert: 12
Wealthy Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is discovered late at night in the
factory owned by her husband Andre (David Hedison). Helene stands beside a
huge metal press, which has crushed the head and arm of her husband. Held
for murder, the near-catatonic Helene refuses to tell anyone--not even Andre's
brother Francois (Vincent Price)--why she did it. Francois cannot help but notice
that Helene reacts in mortal terror when a tiny flies zips through the room. Nor
can he disregard the statement made by Helene's son Philippe (Charles Herbert)
that the fly has a curious white head and leg. When Francois pretends that he's
captured the fly, Helene relaxes enough to tell her story. It seems that Andre, a
scientist, had been working on a matter transmitter.
“Funny, horrible and inventive – in its own deranged way this is a classic of
1950s horror.” – Film 4
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