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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2015

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015

Midnight Screenings

Programme

8 films · 8 reviews

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The Crazies

Review preview for The Crazies

The simplicity of the location, with its gentle green hills and thin woodland, makes it feel as if it could be anywhere, yet Romero positions his camera so as to generate maximum tension from it.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.

(Country: US; Year: 1973; Director: George A Romero; Writer: Paul McCollough, George A Romero; Stars: Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty, Richard France, Harry Spillman, Will Disney, Edith Bell, Bill Thunhurst)

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The Greedy Tiffany (Nenasytná Tiffany)

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Fehu, in a careful balancing of tone, ensures that Pepa's situation remains tragicomic to the last, rather than merely exploiting him for cheap laughs.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A rube named Pepa robs cottages for cash but the discovery of a strange video recording points him to a place where he’ll find a treasure of immense value... little realising there is a plan for those who turn up looking for it.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Andy Fehu; Writer: Andy Fehu; Stars: Petr Ctvrtnícek, Leos Noha, Jirí Panzner, Pjeer van Eck)

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The Man Who Fell To Earth

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Full of dazzling images.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
The spectacular yet melancholy story of an alien from a dying planet who comes to Earth in search of water but indulges a little too much.

(Country: UK; Year: 1976; Director: Nicolas Roeg; Writer: Paul Mayersberg, based on the book by Walter Tevis.; Stars: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey, Jackson D. Kane)

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The Nightmare

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Documentary this may be, but it's very much in horror movie territory, and filmed as such.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A documentary about the experiences of eight people who suffer from sleep paralysis.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Rodney Ascher; Stars: Yatoya Toy, Siegfried Peters)

Full review See: Interview with Rodney Ascher about The Nightmare

Stung

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We are thrown headlong into a remake of Aliens, only with a mansion instead of a space colony and caterers instead of marines. The surprise is that it works.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Parasitic wasps party on down.

(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Benni Diez; Writer: Adam Aresty, Adam Aresty; Stars: Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr., Matt O'Leary, Jessica Cook, Florentine Lahme, Daniele Rizzo, David Masterson, Cecilia Pillado, Kathleen Renish, Eve Slatner, Tony de Maeyer)

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Tokyo Tribe

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Like rap without rhythm, Tokyo Tribes is missing something vital: plot and characters.

Donald Munro · 1.5 out of 5
Hybrid of Yakuza gang action and hip-hop musical.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Shion Sono; Writer: Santa Inoue, Shion Sono; Stars: Akihiro Kitamura, Ryôhei Suzuki, Hitomi Katayama, Hiroko Yashiki, Kokone Sasaki, Shôta Sometani, Shôko Nakagawa, Riki Takeuchi, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Denden, Haruna Yabuki, Yui Ichikawa, Shunsuke Daitô, Motoki Fukami, Takuya Ishida)

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The Witch

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Eggers draws fully on the iconography of the period, the muted greys and greens of the landscape captured by cinematographer Jarin Blaschkee broken only by repeated flashes of cardinal red, bringing with it the suggestion of cardinal sin.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A family of New England settlers find their faith tested when their son disappears... possibly snatched by something evil in the woods.

(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2015; Director: Robert Eggers; Writer: Robert Eggers; Stars: Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson, Ellie Grainger)

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Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead (Wyrmwood)

Review preview for Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead

Utterly lacking in decorum or shame, this is a film that reeks of self-indulgence but gets away with it completely.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
During a post- apocalyptic zombie crisis, a mechanic sets out to rescue his sister from the clutches of a mad scientist.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Kiah Roache-Turner; Writer: Kiah Roache-Turner; Stars: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill)

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