take 34. 1.5.2013

Movies for Stone-throwers

Doors open: 19h

19h- 20h

BarAnimationRussia (BAR)

 

20h15

Hungary 2000, 73 min. english subs

 Frau Plastic Chicken is the host of a popular exploitation television show called NeXXt, which serves up a variety of deviant behavior for the amusement of her viewing audience. While the hostess has arranged for a live broadcast of the arrest of Rex Madison, a notorious multiple murderer, Frau Plastic Chicken wants something even splashier for her audience, so she schedules a post-arrest interview spot, in which Madison will discuss his crimes with Alexander Grushkin, a man who claims to have been the inspiration for the character of Alex in the novel A Clockwork Orange.

So far it’s one of the most scandalous and antinomic Hungarian movies ever made.
It’s a bizarre satiric comedy and it was presented on the Hungarian Movie Week that year. So many people were shocked at the brutal scenes and bare style.
The story is a mix of American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange and the author-director’s own ideas, so partly stolen, simple but original everyhow.

This is the censored version and it doesn’t contain some brutal scenes. More than half an hour (!) is missing from the originally, uncut, 116 minute movie  - but yet there are some ’not too presentable’ actions in this version –
It hasn’t been released yet on DVD - and unfortunately, the uncut version is not available too

It’s not an amateur movie, a lot of famous Hungarian actors play in it. On the other hand, one of my favourite Hungarian movies but I know in Hungary many people can’t understand this movie, many people hate it, but many people think it’s an art film.

 

22h

Australia 1993, 80 min.

 It's a sunny day in suburbia. Suddenly a hideously deformed dying man disrupts the peace, crashing his car in a Pebbles Court neighbourhood, the better part of Homesville. He's the victim of the experimental drug Vimuville, marketed as a "dietary supplement" which has apparently malfunctioned. He has arrived too late to warn the population of Homesville not to try the pill that was dropped in their mailbox by a respectable pharmaceutical company. 

'Body Melt' is one of the most misunderstood Australian movies of all time! Director Philip Brophy, who has a background in avante garde electronic music and performance art, has created a wicked subversion of splatter movies. The film is all the better for having many Aussie soap stars and familiar faces in its cast, a fact that will probably be completely lost on overseas viewers. Just imagine your own "beloved" family favourites in the main roles and you might start to see what Brophy's done here.

Well, it isn't like Braindead. It's something new, something extremely unique and original. Really impressive if you ask me, and a whole lot of fun. I loved the inbred family, loved the "over-the-top" gore effects.

There is one thing that not many have mentioned yet, this film is clever. It isn't just some empty splatter film, it has personality and style. We never really get to know the characters that well, but it tells a good story just as well.

Oh, and it's funny. Very funny. Any movie in which a couple of deformed hillbilly kids kill a kangaroo with a rock at 1000 yards, then eat it's adreno glands to get high, has got something to say.(imdb)