Psycho-sexual madness from the fifties wrapped in a film noir décor, mixed with surreal images and provided with a live soundtrack.
Section: Retro Long Live The Dead
CARNIVAL OF SOULS
A young woman, the only survivor of a car accident, is chased by a creepy character. A macabre cult masterpiece.
DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE
Festival Favourite of 1995. Original and lethal funny living dead film, soaked in gothic romance and the best Italian horror tradition.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD by George A. Romero
A milestone in the horror genre! Ninety minutes of primal fear, claustrophobic threat, hell and doom.
THE CRAZIES by George A. Romero
A test with a biological weapon of mass destruction gets out of hand. The virus transforms the inhabitants of a nearby village into twisted maniacs.
ZEDER
Morbid film about the resurrection of a renegade priest, stuffed with hallucinant imagery, that slowly builds up to an unbearable climax.
LEMORA: A CHILD’S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL
Zombie like creatures and vampires chase a little girl. Scary, surreal and fairytale-like; this presumed lost film is a revelation.
DAWN OF THE DEAD
After The Night of the Living Dead the world is heading for an unyielding Apocalypse. The dead leave the cemeteries for what they are and attack the living to devour them. Four people refuse to be lynched just like that and leave the city by helicopter. Due to a lack in fuel they are forced… Continue reading DAWN OF THE DEAD
DAY OF THE DEAD
Our most incredible and frightening nightmares are becoming reality: the living dead have taken over the power. A group of rebels, chased by the bloodthirsty zombies, are hiding in a shelter under earth. It is in there that scientists are trying to figure out how to save the human race. Will they come up with… Continue reading DAY OF THE DEAD
DEAD OF NIGHT
A young Vietnam private, presumed dead, miraculously returns home, but something is definitely wrong. A brilliant curiosity!
MESSIAH OF EVIL
The inhabitants of a small town are in some sort of a strange catatonic state in this rare and unusual psychedelic chiller.
SHOCK WAVES
Out of the coast of Florida rest the rotting remains of the Third Reich. Soon the ocean will be swarming with underwater Nazi zombies.
THE BEYOND
A remote hotel in Louisiana is built on one of the seven gates to hell. This is the restored version of Fulci’s gore classic.
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
Carrions get out of their coffins, intestines fly around the room and the drill does its work. A Grand Guignol feast in Cinemascope!
JACOB’S LADDER
Very lugubrious and eerie film. Vietnam veteran Tim Robbins is chased by memories of terrifying events. But have they actually happened?
Retro Long Live the Dead
Long live the dead! Since 28 Days Later, the dead seem to be more alive then ever! Time, we thought, to take the undead as our main theme in this year’s retrospective at Cinema Nova. Generally called zombie, this fringe figure within the horror genre became a world wide plague as the result of the… Continue reading Retro Long Live the Dead