An Australian-made lesbian gore film screens at the Phoenix cinema tomorrow as part of a series of chest-rattlers known here as The Institutions are Rotten.
`Penny Lane is Dead’ has been described as a roughly like a mixture of `Puberty Blues’ and `Wake in Fright’ run through a night from hell.
Filmmaker Mia’Kate Russell spent decades working in her passion, special effects, before becoming writer and director of what is called an Ozploitation horror.
It screens at 11am, then at 4.30 on Monday,
another emotionally involving horror, `Leviticus’ centres on two teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they most desire.
More horror bursts on to the screen tomorrow at 4.30 with ‘Obsession’, which links traditional frightening scenes with a deeply unsettling psychological atmosphere and unnerving physical performances.
`Backrooms’ (tomorrow at 7pm, Sunday at 11am, Thursday, 13 August, and Monday, 17 August at 2pm) bends the spaces that haunted the internet for years, into horror film as mesmerising as it is terrifying.
The rot of institutions are revealed in `Network’, `Serpico’, `The Wizard of the Kremlin’ and `All the President’s Men’
The French take us into another world in `Colours of Time’ (Monday, 4.30). Four cousins are brought together by the unexpected inheritance of abandoned house in Normandy.
There are echoes of an ancestor who went to Paris#
An entirely different world is revealed in `Scarecrow’ (Wednesday, 4.30, Friday, 2pm). This is described as a quietly devastating film about friendship, dreams and loneliness and hailed for outstanding performances by Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.
Robert De Niro is in the first of so many lauded leads for Martin Scorsese in the unforgettable `Taxi Driver’ (Thursday, 6 August, and Sunday, 9 August, 7pm). Here is a vigilante anti-hero with a hands-on approach to cleaning up a city. If only.
Next Thursday brings yet another classic, this time the satirical `The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’, Luis Buneul’s dissection of six people coming to dine together but failing to eat, being interrupted by reality and illusion.
And fans of Spider-Man will not have to wait long as he zooms across the screen at the end of the month.
Many more to see and book on the Phoenix website.
