Psych-Out: The Surreal Side Of Euro-Cult
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Sat 2 March 2013 // 18:00
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This is a season of rarely-shown Psychedelic Cult European Films, made between 1969 and 1981. The films are made by the most famous cult European directors and all have elements of the surreal: from horror to 1970s LSD-fused trippy dreams. Expect vampires, lesbians, blood, cannibalism and other strange happenings…
SURREAL SIDE OF CULT
Cult film screenings abound in the country at the moment, but we wanted to screen the more obscure cult films that a lot of people would not know about. Europe produced a lot of films on the verge of being classed as erotic/porn in the 1970s, and going to extreme levels of violence. This selection shows films that are also all infused with a sense of the surreal, typically marking the decade of “experiments” of the 1970s.
PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDTRACKS: Prog-Rock, Ennio Morricone + more
A few pretty amazing psychedelic and prog-rocky soundtracks, especially in Nerosubianco, for which members of the band Procol Harum composed the music, and in Vampyros Lesbos – Quentin Tarantino is a big fan and used a track from that film for Jackie Brown.
RARELY SHOWN!
Some of these films have not been shown on a big screen for a long time – Possession was originally banned in the UK – its full-length version was only released in 1999 in this country.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY
This season is being curated by Dr Jamie Sexton, film lecturer at Northumbria University, and is supported by Northumbria University. All films will be introduced by Dr Jamie Sexton and by Dr Russ Hunter, also film lecturer at Northumbria University.
SEASON FEATURED IN THE GUARDIAN GUIDE
This film season featured in the Guardian Guide on Sat 2 March!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/mar/02/this-weeks-new-film-events