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 September 2017
The American director George A. Romero left the world of the living on 16 June. This B-Z is a posthumous tribute to the godfather of the modern zombie movie. Thanks to Romero, the zombie, a previously somewhat marginal figure from the horror pantheon, became a...
25 August 2017
Inspired by Belgian author Vanessa Morgan’s book, When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies With Killer Animals, this summer we delve into movies in which small and big creatures from the animal kingdom take on human beings. The 1970s era of the silver...
30 June 2017
The 1970s were the highlight days of car chase movies, with American trendsetters such as “French Connection” or “Bullit” and Italian low budget police films (poliziotteschi). In this last genre, "Poliziotto sprint" is exceptional because the film is such a...
9 June 2017
La Edad de Oro del Fantaterror Espagñol (the Golden Age of Spanish Horror film) lasted from 1968 to 1977, which ironically coincides with the last 10 years of the Franco dictatorship. While in cinemas the local population only could see genre films that were...
26 May 2017
In America, Trouble Ahead is the typical traffic sign that warns motorists of a danger on the road. Under this flag, we propose two films that have the interminable highways that cross the most remote corners of the United States as a setting. Mechanical...
28 April 2017
The breakthrough of youth and counter culture at the end of the sixties and start of the seventies, saw the emergence of a new phenomenon: the groupie as a mostly female, obsessive fan of pop and rock celebrities. It starts off as idolatry, sexual fantasies and...
31 March 2017
Like every year, the B-to-Z of March is linked to the festival. With famous schizophrenics as this month's theme, we present “Dr. Jekyll and His Women”, Borowczyk's highly personal and sexualised version of the classic story. A second split personality can be found in...
24 February 2017
The anthology film (also known as the omnibus or portmanteau film) is a feature film that consists of several short films, made by one or more directors. Ealing Studios' "Dead of Night" (1945) was a landmark in the history of British horror. Amicus Productions, rival...
27 January 2017
The vigilante film is one of cinema's most controversial subgenres, featuring heroes that take the law into their own hands.With Quentin Tarantino as a big fan, "Rolling Thunder" is one of the best known examples of the genre. In some way a "Taxi Driver Part 2" it...
30 December 2016
John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China" was a rather unusual film at the time of its release. A mixture of redneck-adventure comedy with fantastic martial arts, in the spirit of Tsui Hark's "Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain", still underestimated by western...
25 November 2016
Movie monsters come in all shapes and sizes. And if they're from outer space, you would expect those forms to be most bizarre and unnatural. But this can disappoint. Most extraterrestrials in cinema have distinctly humanoid characteristics or look suspiciously like...
28 October 2016
In the early seventies, French cinema was enriched by the work of several cineasts who excelled in a – for its time – daring combination of surrealism and eroticism. The films of Jean Rollin are drenched in typical French fantastique, full of phantasmagorical imagery...
30 September 2016
There's no need to seek a deeper sociological explanation for the wave of small monsters that flooded the cinema's and video stores in the eighties. It had just one sole reason, and that was the gigantic success of Joe Dante's “Gremlins”. Soon, the public had to endure...
26 August 2016
Dangerous sea monsters are not only found on the ocean floor like in last month's B-to-Z: this time around, the creatures come on land to wreak havoc!In "The Horror Of Party Beach", American schlockmeister Del Tenney ("I Eat Your Skin", "The Curse of the Living...
29 July 2016
Are you spending the summer in Brussels, away from the crowded beaches of the Costa del Sol? B-to-Z invites you to take a plunge into the deep… and end up in the clutches of two sea monsters!In the late eighties, sci-fi made a U-turn, away from distant galaxies as it...
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