Click here to watch this week's Creature Feature Night of the Living Dead at 12pm CST Sun Oct 25
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Film Description below
"A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a bloodthirsty, flesh-eating breed of monsters who are ravaging the East Coast of the United States."
Thanks again IMDb! But seriously, this fucking movie. Come watch a Duane Jones’ legendary performance in this extraordinarily low budget and influential indie film that played a major role in shaping the living-dead genre! Once again, frighteningly relevant final scene.
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English subtitles included.
Trigger Warning: blood, gore, violence, police violence
"A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong."
Another succinct plot description from IMDb, this 1986 remake of a 1958 film of the same name is an intensely visceral (characteristic of films directed by Cronenberg) movie that exploits the sci-fi trope of the mad scientist to explore some strikingly relevant material surrounding the politics of the body, and the body politic, much like last week's Pressure Point, through very different aesthetic, and narrative means.
An apt quote to keep an eye out for:
"Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects don’t have politics, they are very brutal, no compassion, no compromise, we can’t trust the insect. I’d like to become the first insect politician. I’d like to, but I’m afraid."
Trigger Warning:
Sex scenes (no full nudity) gore, depiction of animal cruelty, a dramatized abortion scene, discussions of abortion, stalking, sexism, ableism, more gore.
"A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition"
While this is the succinct plot description courtesy of IMDb, the plot employs the narrative strategy of nested stories in which Sidney Poitier performs a chief psychiatrist in 1962 recounting the case described above that he was assigned in 1942 to a younger psychiatrist under his tutelage. While it may seem a strange choice genre-wise, the antagonist (Bobby Darin) portrays a very real and monstrous manifestation of the horrors of white supremacy through the presentation of a fraught doctor patient relationship.
Trigger warning: Descriptions and acts of racism, anti-semitism, ableism, images of swastikas, childhood abuse, domestic violence, an image of a burning cross, a mention of a white man planning to enact Black-face, and depictions of alcoholism.