"This month, indie theaters dig a little deeper, offering less-screened but much-loved options like Kiyoshi Kurosawa's slow-burn detective thriller Cure and Mario Bava's lurid Blood and Black Lace. Hollywood Theatre's funeral parlor screening of Phantasm is sold out, but if you didn't grab tickets in time, I recommend recreating it at home, lights off, blanket pulled tight-that's kind of like a coffin, right? Read on... if you daaaare."
"For fans of George Sluizer's The Vanishing (1988), Bong Joon Ho's Memories of Murder (2003), Gakuryū Ishii's Angel Dust (1997). A serial killer is arrested, and their neighbor says the same thing neighbors always seem to: The murderer seemed normal, quiet, nice. You've heard it before, but what drives this pattern? Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is interested in our efforts to maintain social control, and what simmers beneath."
October programming highlights unsettling cinema beyond mainstream slashers, with indie theaters screening less-seen favorites like Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace. A funeral-parlor screening of Phantasm sold out, with a home-recreation suggested for similar atmosphere. Cure follows a Tokyo detective investigating seemingly unrelated killings linked by contact with an evasive amnesiac whose memory loss may be real or more insidious. Interrogation rooms and intrusive hypnosis form a backdrop for meditations on suggestion, repression, and the maintenance of social control. The film unfolds in long, tension-building takes with a hushed, clinical slant and remains one of Kurosawa's most unnerving works.
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