Glamour and Gore

13 Notes En Rouge, François Gaillard, 2020, 75 mins

After a drunken evening, Charlotte wakes up in the middle of the night on her bed. While she has no memory of the past few hours, she hears her co-tenant being violently attacked in her room… Slick neo-giallo from the director of The Witching Hour and I Am the Ripper; a visual feast of glamour and gore.

If you open you eyes now… It’s going to hurt a lot

The Museum of Wonders, Domiziano Cristopharo, 2010, 99 mins

When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive performer; all the while planning to steal his fortune and run off with her lover, the strong man Sansone. When Marcel and his fellow performers discover her evil plan, they band together to carry out an act of brutal revenge.

2010 Fantafestival – Best Film

Violent Delights, Edin Alain Martinez, 2020, 90 mins 

Imagine what a mash-up of Jean Rollin’s Requiem of a Vampire and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre might look like, and then add even more blood, sex and gore, and lace it with strong hallucinogenics… Now you start to get the basics of Violent Delights. Violent Delights tells the story of a vampire couple who are getting a bit tired of each other, this being one of the drawbacks of immortality. Alani, the female vampire wants a baby but Gabriel, the male vampire, doesn’t and so they argue. To resolve things they decide to invite a few friends over for dinner, and then things go from nasty to batshit crazy…

2020 Hollywood Horror Festival – Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Director, Best Foreign Language Actress, Best Foreign Language Actor, Best Original Score