B-to-Z double bill at Cinematek | Offscreen
Every last Friday of the month, we collaborate with the Cinematek's B-to-Z rendez-vous in Brussels, a moment in the history of alternative cinema that shouldn't be missed. Unearthed from the dark recesses of the archive: hilarious B-movies, blood-chilling thrillers, Gialli, slashers and other exploitation cinema gems… Take advantage of the 2-for-1: two films with a common theme for the price of a single ticket.
29 May 2026
In the early 1970s, things began to change with the rise of the blaxploitation genre—the Black cousin of exploitation cinema—which, for a brief period, made waves in the American grindhouse circuit and occasionally even broke into mainstream cinema with films...
24 April 2026
With this B-Z screening, we’re serving up a nostalgic sci-fi & monster double bill of impressive scale. First, we journey into the deepest reaches of the cosmos in Galaxy of Terror, a cheap but entertaining rip-off of...
27 March 2026
Tombs of the Blind Dead is the first in a series of four and excels in atmosphere — featuring blind knights galloping in slow motion on horseback — along with several particularly gruesome sequences set to a soundtrack of...
27 February 2026
The B-to-Z programs have unearthed a few gems from the legendary Italian giallo genre, launched by Mario Bava in the 1960s with The Girl Who Knew Too Much and ...
30 January 2026
The screening of Lucio Fulci’s The New York Ripper in 2006 was one of the liveliest showings at the former Film Museum, today known as CINEMATEK. The masterful and somewhat vulgar staging, along with the extreme...
26 December 2025
Celluloid superheroes come in all shapes and sizes: from the cinema serials of the 1930s and 1940s based on the eponymous American comics (Flash Gordon, Batman…) to the big-budget...
26 September 2025
In 1966, Sergio Corbucci pushed violence to its extreme in Django, one of the gems of the Italian western. The film’s dazzling success catapulted Franco Nero to stardom and brought Corbucci into the pantheon of the great...
29 August 2025
"King of the B-movie" was an honorary title that he was only too happy to endorse and commercialize. In the 1950s, Corman churned out one exploitation picture after another for American International Pictures—if possible, in just two days and one night. But alongside...
25 July 2025
Vampyros Lesbos and De Sade 70 are two milestones in the erotic oeuvre of the prolific Spanish director Jess Franco: sapphic vampires and the Marquis de Sade are sublimated through his muse, Miranda Soledad. Vampyros Lesbos is undoubtedly one of his most visually...
27 June 2025
The retrospective The Haunted Isles: Folk Horror and the Wyrd in the UK and Ireland at the Offscreen Film Festival in March is getting an epilogue with June’s B to Z program, which brings back two films that couldn’t be...
30 May 2025
Beware, you are about to enter the wasteland of cinema—tonight is more about the letter Z than B... Post-nuke, or post-apocalyptic, films depict the fate of humanity's last survivors after a (usually nuclear) catastrophe, whether they roam in vehicles with two, four,...
25 April 2025
The whodunit genre focuses on identifying the culprit among the various characters in a plot. This playful structure was not Hitchcock’s favorite, as he believed it killed the suspense, but it has proven its worth across different genres, such as the giallo and the...
28 March 2025
Director, screenwriter, producer—Boris Szulzinger was a jack-of-all-trades, but he left his mark primarily on genre cinema, which remains underrepresented in our country. He was one of the first students at the Brussels film school INSAS, interned with Jean-Pierre...
28 February 2025
This double feature proves that man’s best friend isn’t always the loyal and cuddly companion they’re assumed to be.In Man’s Best Friend, a journalist breaks into a research facility where various experiments are being conducted on animals. She rescues...
24 January 2025
That barking dogs don’t bite is disproved by these two shocking social satires. Told from the perspective of the titular character via an emotionless voice-over, Baxter follows the bizarre journey of a murderous bull terrier searching for the perfect...
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