Director: Bernard Rose
Writer: Bernard Rose
Release Year: 2005

It’s art imitating life imitating art.

Boris Arkadin (Jeroen Krabbé) is a horror director who lost his pregnant wife to an attack by a group of fans who wanted to replicate part of one of his films; his son survived an amateur caesarian. This left him less interested in making another horror film and he faded into hermitage. Years later, Arkadin is making a new film, and so casts eager young things Wendy Jones (Lisa Enos), Jack (Joe Reegan), Pamela (Teri Harrison), and Matt Drazin (Sharif Rosales-Webb)….

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Director: Janet Greek
Writer: Tracy Tormé
Release Year: 1988

Never help anyone.

Jeff Mills (Timothy Daly) meets Miranda Reed (Kelly Preston) in a parking lot in which a man is attacking her. Jeff takes Miranda to his home to get her away from her abusive boyfriend and they share a night of passion. They get very close and it’s revealed that Miranda has a past, a past that threatens to end badly for her and Jeff….

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Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Release Year: 1968   

Caught in the web of… inbred teenage girls!

Seeing Spider Baby on the big screen is a quite unique experience, since there aren’t that much 35-mm copies in good condition left of this movie. For the Offscreen Festival screening last year (2008), Jack Hill provided a print out of his private collection, for which we thank him heartily. Spider Baby is a black & white sixties treasure filled with demented humor and grotesque terror, dealing with rather bizarre family values.

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Director: Fernando Colomo
Writer: Fernando Colomo, Audreu Martín and Miguel Ángel Nieto
Release year: 1985
Spanish title: El Caballero Del Dragón

Not so clever Keitel

When princess Alba (Maria Lamor) is abducted by a mysterious dragon, it’s upto Klever (Harvey Keitel), a foolish knight in love, to go and rescue her. However, the dragon turns out to be a spaceship, and Alba starts to fall in love with the alien human abductor, who was merely paying a visit to our planet earth. Can you dig this?

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Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Writer: Jiku Yamatoya, based on a manga by Masaaki Sato
Release year: 1979
Japanese title: Dabide no hoshi: Bishôjo-gari

Human depravation… Sex… Torture… Death.
Or, how to be mislead by Japanese 70′s exploitation cinema.

Tatsuya is a handsome but lonely man who inherits his family’s fortune. This includes his late parents’ luxurious mansion on an isolated and serene location.  Tatsuya likes beautiful young women. He also likes inviting them to his mansion. But sadly, they don’t really like what all he does to them.

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