It's a bird, it's a plane, No it's a weird horror movie! - Genredelic!

20h20: Uk 1996, 90min.

This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and... Featuring Robert Englund this grotesque comedy blows your head!!!

 

22h: USA 1979, 90min.

 

 Larry Cohen's best and one of the most underrated horror/exploitation movies of the 1970s.


I must have seen close to twenty movie written and/or directed by Larry Cohen ('Q', 'Black Caesar', 'Maniac Cop', 'It's Alive!', 'Best Seller', 'The Stuff', 'Uncle Sam',etc.etc.) and I have greatly enjoyed most of them, but 'God Told Me To' is without a doubt his best movie. It's an extraordinarily original picture, one of the best low budget horror movies of all time. Horror movie? Horror, mystery, science fiction, whatever you want to call it! Tony Lo Bianco plays a religious cop who is faced with a seemingly random series of murders committed by various people who, when asked why, simply say "God told me to". This is just the beginning of a very strange and fascinating story that will leave the viewer continually guessing! Lo Bianco was a last minute replacement for Robert Forster who was sacked after two days filming and a personality clash with Cohen. Lo Bianco gives a terrific performance, his best in my opinion after 'The Honeymoon Killers'. The movie features a strong supporting cast: Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, screen veterans Sylvia Sidney and Sam Levene, plus cult favourite Richard Lynch ('Scarecrow', 'Open Season', 'The Ninth Configuration'), and even the movie debut of the enigmatic comedian Andy Kaufman. 'God Told Me To' is one of the 1970s most underrated horror/exploitation movies. Any fan of the genre must, I repeat MUST, see it!written by Infofreak on imdb.com

 

take 16: 12.12.2012

Killer Santas and Crucial Reindeers - A Holy Night in Deep Red

Start 20h15

DEAR KINO ANDERS GUEST, LIKE MOST XMAS GIFTS ARE  A SURPRISE, IT WILL HAPPEN IN TOMORROWS' PROGRAMM.

I JUST ANNOUNCE 

 

Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggert) is obsessed with Christmas! In fact he wants to "be" the authentic Santa Claus, with a real suit, sleigh and reindeer. Ever since he learned the "truth" about Santa, he's tried to make Christmas a reality. Growing up a toy maker, Harry is met with naysayers and critics who mock him for his yuletide beliefs. but he wants people to get the presents they deserve, even if that means giving the gift of murder! Cynics and uptight hypocrites beware!

Lewis Jackson's classic black comedy horror film, CHRISTMAS EVIL (aka YOU BETTER WATCH OUT!) is, according to cult film director/auteur John Waters, "the best seasonal film of all time. I wish I had kids. I'd make them watch it every year and, if they didn't like it, they'd be punished!"











 

Take 15: Mittwoch 5.12.2012

December Horror Story Part 1: Evil Dead & Co.

20h15, USA 1987

Sequel to The Evil Dead where Ash does not manage to escape the evil from the first movie. Retelling the story only leaves Ash and his girlfriend in the beginning for whatever reason. Ash must now survive another night in the cabin accompanied now by the Professor's daughter, a mechanic, an associate of the Professor, and the mechanic's girlfriend. But the thing in the darkness vows that they will be -- Dead By Dawn.

The legendary surreal masterpiece of strange comedy is the favorite movie of Alejandro Jodorowsky so what comment you need.

21h45, USA 1988 

This movie is insane! Shot in Michigan at the height of the direct-to-VHS horror boom in the late '80s, The Carrier snuck onto tape with a nondescript cover courtesy of Magnum but managed to astonish the luckly few adventurous souls who bothered to rent it out for an evening. In a small town called Sleepy Rock apparently stuck in some sort of alternate universe of the 1950s, young man Jake Spear (Fortescue) escapes an attack from a strange beast from the woods. Though he seems unharmed, Jake is horrified to discover that he has acquired a highly unusual contagion that contaminates any object he touches and dissolves anyone else who makes contact with it. Soon the entire town is in a panic, unaware that Jake is the source of their problem as these "red objects" (named become a source of terror that can only be exposed by using cats(!) as weapons to identify them. Clad in plastic and heavy cloth, the townspeople soon divide into two warring factions that threaten to destroy the entire community forever.

Considering the era of its release, you don't have to look too hard to find an AIDS allegory here; the weird plot turn that covers almost everyone in trash bags for the duration of the films only lacks a glove-wearing dental hygienist to drive the full message home here. It's definitely unique though, and one-shot direct Nathan J. White certainly knows how to generate a resonant moment or two out of daylight horrors. No one in the main cast went on to much else, but Forescue makes for an engaging, sympathetic lead; more interestingly, as this was shot around the same stomping grounds from The Evil Dead, it features some of the same names behind the camera including composer Joseph LoDuca, cinematographer Peter Deming, and even some funky sound work from Bruce Campbell! 

Give this one a shot; it might become your next favorite unsung treasure, and it's certainly like nothing else you've ever seen before.

28.11.2012 No Kino Anders, Sorry Guys but next week! Programm is online tomorrow.

take 14: 21.11.2012

Phoenix

Kino Anders is back! 

Your advanced movie experience every wednesday.

 Now @ Offbar.

20h
Shorts out the garbage

One hour of strange shorts without taste. 
Featuring an all-monkey cast, an all dog-cast, a racist panda and some swiss John Waters fans.

 


South-Korea 2003, 120min, english subs
Oldeuboi (Oldboy)

An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, Oh Dae-Su falls in love wit a young woman and soon finds out that his kidnapper has a greater plan for him.


Incredible beautiful and disturbing existentialist MASTERPIECE.
A movie like a poem.

 
Galgenbruders Lied an Sophie, die Henkersmaid

Sophie, mein Henkersmädel,
komm, küsse mir den Schädel!
Zwar ist mein Mund -
ein schwarzer Schlund -
doch du bist gut und edel!

Sophie, mein Henkersmädel,
komm, streichle mir den Schädel!
Zwar ist mein Haupt
des Haars beraubt -
doch du bist gut und edel!

Sophie, mein Henkersmädel,
komm, schau mir in den Schädel!
Die Augen zwar,
sie fraß der Aar -
doch du bist gut und edel!

Christian Morgenstern
 

Won: Grand Prix of the Jury – Park Chan-wook
Won: Maria Award (Best Film)
Won: José Luis Guarner Award (Critics' Best Film)
Bergen International Film Festival 2004[24]
Won: Audience Award
British Independent Film Awards 2004[25]
Won: Best Foreign Independent Film
European Film Awards 2004[26]
Nominated: Screen International Award

And here some ignorant quotes from imdb:

The characters' motives and behaviors are incoherent and unconvincing. Psychological truth and logic are sadly missing. The plot is more full of holes than a gigantic piece of Swiss cheese.There is absolutely nothing that sets this movie apart from many other movies. No great achievements in acting, story, script, music, cinematography. Absolutely none. Yet it receives very high ratings. I really don't understand why. Believe me, nobody deserves what happens to our main character in the end, and I'm very serious; you know how some movies just go under your skin and stay there? Well, I felt goddamn dirty after watching this movie, and I REALLY wish I'd never seen it. It stayed with me for days, and some might ask: well, isn't that the purpose of a good movie? The ability to affect us in such ways? Yes, it can be, but this movie not only made me sick, it made me feel violated. More fun watching sticking your head in a toilet to watch the brown submarines.

Here's a good review:

After going through the comments, i must say i'm impressed how many people out there don't have a slightest clue of beauty or intelligent screenplays. there are so many comments from people that totally disliked the movie. which is plain and simple not possible, if you got an open mind and a open heart (and are not drunk). I would compare it to chocolate. You may find it too sweet and prefer bitter chocolate. or you like white chocolate more. Or you got diabetes and can only sometimes eat one. But people that totally dislike chocolate scare me to death. Same goes for Oldboy, you gotta admit some of the genius art-form it contains. Its everything in there. Its heartwarming , disgusting, intelligent, beautiful and lead with outstanding performance of any actor . You HAVE to like something, cause it wont get much better. Its chocolate. If you disliked the movie so much and on a constant basis, why even bother to write a comment? My guess is you just could not follow the movie at all. which is my only guess actually. well enough rambling.
If you call common sense, and a human heart your own and like "challenging" movies, go and see it NOW.

  

DECODER CHIFFRE NO. ONE

20h

Shorts

21h15

Decoder (1984) – Legendärer Thriller mit W.S. Burroughs und den jungen Neubauten

Pop performer F.M. Einheit (Einsturzende Neubaüten) discovers that different sonic frequencies

induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio, and later in the local
'H-Burger' restaurant, where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions...
The government headquarters responsible for this are represented by a huge 'fascist' building
full of winding spools.  Meanwhile, Bill Rice, the government official who works there,
goes on a journey of sexual discovery in the local red-light district...
Einheit, after several arguments with his girlfriend, played by former child prostitute
Christianne F.  and dream sequences
featuring William S. Burroughs, finds himself amongst underground rebels
led by Genesis P. Orridge (Psychic TV / Throbbing Gristle), who explains to FM how
the government have been 'controlling' the public through muzak.  



        
Soundtrack by Psychic TV, Dave Ball (Soft Cell/PTV), FM Einheit, The The,
William S. Burroughs, and Einsturzende Neubauten.

 

 

23h

Death Powder

Shigeru Izumiya's underground classic Desu Pawuda aka Death Powder (Japan, 1986) is definitely among the weirdest, most bizarre films ever made. It reminds of David Lynch's Eraserhead, Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo and some other extremely memorable and unique exercises in cinematic magic and limits beyond imagination. Death Powder has very little to do with plot or story, and what's there is extremely hard to follow and seems not to make any sense. One character says at one point to another: "Try to pretend that you're understanding what it's all about. Like life itself, this makes no sense." That line really tells something what to expect from this low budget gem from Japan, the land of many great film makers.
There are three mercenaries/soldiers who go to some mysterious storehouse in which even more mysterious figure is lying on a bed without any mattress. Suddenly, the figure blows some dust/powder on one of the soldiers and then the nightmare begins. It soon turns out, that one of the soldiers (played by the director Izumiya himself) has already been "infected" by this powder and now the question is what will happen to these two hapless victims, the other being a female by the way. The newly "infected" mercenary starts to have severe hallucinations into some netherworld, a universe unknown to us and a place never depicted on film before, and soon it is revealed that the powder has still many more victims to "dust".

This masterpiece is highly recommended for all those interested in art, underground and hyper bizarre cinema experiences and it would be great if this had some official VHS/DVD release with English subs at some point which it never had.