In the Hausu

Things to keep on your radar as Fantastic Fest reaches it's second half.

Succubus Tue, Sep 29, 7:00 PM
SUCCUBUS is like the shiny side of the REPULSION coin, as we see into the dream life of a vivacious sexpot (Janine Reynaud) whose nightclub act depicts sexualized torture on stage. As we follow her through Lisbon and Berlin, through encounters with lesbians, sadists and little people, we begin to see signs that she is carrying her work home with her. Surreal, at times pretentious, but always compelling and new, even Fritz Lang liked this movie, he called it "a beautiful piece of cinema." We are indebted to another well-known admirer of this film for the loan of the print: Quentin Tarantino.
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Clive Barker's Dread Tue, Sep 29, 11:55 PM
Stephen (Jackson Rathbone from Twilight), Quaid (Shaun Evans) and Cheryl (Hanne Steen), graduate students at Boston College are "seeking to interview men and women for an academic study on fear. Participants will be asked to reveal their innermost terrors on camera." Most of their subjects are mundane, some are fabricating stories to hone their drama department chops but a few of their subjects suffer from the genuine article, deep-seated psyche-scarring fears. Quaid, naturally combative to begin with, becomes violently possessive of the project and wants to take it to the next level. What happens next is a wickedly spiraling sadistic freakout that pounds out the thrills all the way to the end credits. Dread is considered by many Clive Barker fans to be one of the best stories in his Books of Blood series, and first time director DiBlasi really nails every nuance of the story.
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100 Best Kills Party Tue, Sep 29, 11:59 PM
We'll be celebrating the absolute finest in on-screen annihilation with an interactive celebration of on-screen intestine-ripping, head-bursting and unrepentant baby-mashing! Your faithful FF programmers will get the festivities started with some of their all-time favorite examples of cinematic savagery, but then we'll be opening things up so YOU can share your most beloved homicide as well. It's easy...just bring along anything good, goopy n' gory that can play on a laptop or all-region DVD player and you'll be called on to nauseate the masses with your ultimate beloved gutblast! Note: if you want to take part in 100 Best Kills, bring a DVD of your favorite kill and pass it off with a timecode of the kill to FF warriors Zack Carlson or Lars Nilsen. VHS is also encouraged (cued up to the desired moment, of course). We will be awarding prizes to the best kills of the night.

House (Hausu) Thu, Oct 01, 1:30 PM
Every aspect of this movie - from the eye-defying color palate to the lazer-occult effects work - is calculated to boil your organs. Obayashi's debut feature remains a crushing, 300-fisted assault on the senses, so viciously paced and perfectly presented that watching it would actually kill the average moviegoer. This is your chance to prove that you've got what it takes to stand up to the most vibrant and compelling theatrical oddity to hit the screen. Ladies and gentlemen...HAUSU!!!
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Also be sure to check out Fantastic 2009 photos on Flickr and videos on YouTube.