Anguish (Luna, 1987): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.20pm
This is a 35m presentation from those new kids on the block, Movies Are Dead.
Time Out review:
A strikingly original, intricately constructed, and extremely gruesome
horror film about a mother-fixated opthalmologist's assistant with an
unhealthy interest in eyeballs. 'Soon' says his diminutive mother
(Zelda Rubenstein), 'all the eyes in the city will be ours' - and she means
it. Using creepily effective ultra close-ups and a clever Chinese box
structure, Bigas Luna introduces another level of voyeuristic disturbance by
allowing the events in this film-within-the-film to spill out into the
auditorium (it's a case of who's watching who when?), where a teenage
girl in the audience is becoming increasingly disturbed by the twitchy
antics of a popcorn-eating man. The execution doesn't always match the
boldness of the conception, but this post-modern shocker intelligently
exploits the notion that horror is in the eye of the beholder.
Nigel Floyd
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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