Film recommendations week 41
Kosmorama recommends quality films for this week! This week we will be recommending horror movies.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Where: Trondheim Kino
The ultimate version of the greatest and most terrifying horror film of all time. The notorious Texas Chain Saw Massacre celebrates its 50th anniversary in a stunningly restored version. Director Tobe Hooper has been involved in the process to approve the highest quality. The visual resolution is a full 4K, and the sound is 7.1.
Fifty years ago, five young people went on a weekend trip to the Texas countryside. There, they became victims of a cannibalistic family and a chainsaw-wielding madman wearing a mask made of human skin.
In this encounter, director Tobe Hooper created a milestone in the history of horror films with the shockingly realistic and subtly violent The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Over the years, this controversial masterpiece has been re-released and remade, but now, for the film’s 50th anniversary, it has been digitally restored in 4K picture and 7.1 sound under the supervision of Tobe Hooper himself.
Blood Tea and Red String
Where: Cinemateket
In Christiane Cegavske's stylistic debut film, we meet a humble family of anthropomorphic crow people who are tasked with sewing a doll for a wealthy mouse family. However, once the doll is finished, the crow child becomes so attached to it that they don’t want to give it up. The doll is then stolen in the middle of the night by the greedy mice, and the crow men set out on a journey to retrieve it.
The New York Times described the film as a 'David Lynchean fever dream on Beatrix Potter terrain,' and with good reason. Much of the iconography and characters are reminiscent of familiar fables with anthropomorphic animals and a sense of adventure, but in Cegavske's world, there is also an underlying unease and threat that continually simmers beneath the surface. Similar to Lynch’s exploration of the horror in the mundane, the pastoral life here is not all joy and peace: the cheerful sunflowers are bright and fresh, but they wither into skeletons if left untended; a beautiful oasis offers water and rest, but feeds off unsuspecting wanderers who overstay. Still, Cegavske has created a unique universe—pulled from her larger artistic world—that deserves to be seen by more people.
Talk to me
Where: Streaming
A group of friends play around with summoning the dead using an embalmed hand. But when their experiments go too far, terrible supernatural forces are unleashed.
