The more amateurish Shin’ichirô Ueda’s gonzo meta zom com ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) seems, the more sophisticated it gets. Screens 8.45pm in NFT2, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Comedy #SingleTake #Metacinema https://projectedfigures.com/2018/10/11/one-cut-of-the-dead-kamera-o-tomeru-na-2017/

Rite of passage: Liam Gavin's transcendent A DARK SONG shows a woman's grief transmuted through the process of ritual. A true original, and a standout of the new millennium. Just astonishing.
Tonight, 6.20pm NFT3, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Ritual #Magick #Revenge https://projectedfigures.com/2017/04/30/dark-song-2016/

"polymorphous in its perversity," Brian Yuzan's class satire cum body horror nails "something rich and strange – about the rich and strange – where incest, Oedipal appetites and errant appropriation are right at home." Screens 8.50pm this evening in NFT2, #BFISouthbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Class https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/08/society-1989/

Period movie: John Fawcett's GINGER SNAPS (2000) regenders the werewolf myth as a smalltown satire of the monstrous feminine. 3.10pm NFT3, #BFISouthbank #Horror #InDreamsAreMonsters https://projectedfigures.com/2017/08/20/ginger-snaps-2000/

Rite of passage: Liam Gavin's transcendent occult feature A DARK SONG (2016) shows a woman's immense grief and anger transmuted into something else through the process of ritual. A true original, and one of my very favourite horrors of the new millennium.
Screens tonight, 8.45pm in NFT3, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Ritual #Occult
https://projectedfigures.com/2017/04/30/dark-song-2016/

Cold war, warm blood: Tomas Alfredson's disturbing coming-of-age saga LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) screens today, 6.15pm, at NFT3, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror https://projectedfigures.com/2020/03/09/let-the-right-one-in-lat-den-ratte-komma-in-2008

"regenders the werewolf myth as a hilariously icky exploration of the monstrous feminine": John Fawcett’s whipsmart Canadian indie GINGER SNAPS (2000) screens 8.50pm today at NFT2, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Werewolf https://projectedfigures.com/2017/08/20/ginger-snaps-2000

"Putting a fist up America’s hidden dynastic structures and pulling them inside out so that the terrible things underneath are revealed for all to see," Brian Yuzna's class satire cum body horror SOCIETY (1989), 6.15pm at NFT2 BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Satire #Class https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/08/society-1989/

"Rationalism and superstition collide in this compelling genre experiment from the early 1920s that exposes the medieval mentalities that persists in us all": Benjamin Christensen's HÄXAN (1922) 11.45am today at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Witchcraft https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/28/haxan-haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922-1968/

The more amateurish Shin’ichirô Ueda’s gonzo meta zom com ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) seems, the more sophisticated it gets. Screens 6.15pm in NFT2, #BFISouthbank #InDreamsAreMonsters
#Horror #Comedy #Meta
https://projectedfigures.com/2018/10/11/one-cut-of-the-dead-kamera-o-tomeru-na-2017/

Ghost artistry: Masaki Kobayashi's spookily stylised KWAIDAN (1964) is "a film of a rare, hermetic beauty, full of ethereal images and errant ideas that will haunt the mind." Screens 5.40pm today, at NFT3 #BFISouthbank #InDreamsAreMonsters
https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/11/kwaidan-1964/

"Rationalism and superstition collide in this compelling genre experiment from the early 1920s that exposes the medieval mentalities that persists in us all": Benjamin Christensen's HÄXAN (1922) + live score by The Begotten, this evening 6.10pm at NFT3, #BFISouthbank - and also on #BFIPlayer #Horror #SilentCinema #InDreamsAreMonsters https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/28/haxan-haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922-1968

Cold war, warm blood: Tomas Alfredson's disturbing coming-of-age saga LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) screens today, 8.45pm, at NFT1, #BFISouthbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Sweden #ColdWar #Vampires https://projectedfigures.com/2020/03/09/let-the-right-one-in-lat-den-ratte-komma-in-2008/

Do we do #BandcampFriday over here? Here is my new score for the 1922 #benjaminchristensen film #haxan , commissioned by Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast as part of the BFI #InDreamsAreMonsters season:
#soundtrack #mellotron #synthesizer

https://nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com/album/h-xan-a-soundtrack

"shot mostly on sound stages in constructed sets with highly mannered backdrops, this is a film of a rare, hermetic beauty, full of ethereal images and errant ideas that will haunt the mind."
Masaki Kobayashi's KWAIDAN (1964), 8pm in NFT1, #BFISouthbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #JHorror #Ghosts #HoichiTheEarless
https://projectedfigures.com/2021/04/11/kwaidan-1964

How the other half lives: Jordan Peele's US (2019) plays funny games with the socioeconomic disparities in the American dream. Screens today, 8.40pm at BFI Southbank NFT1 #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Doppelgängers #SocialDIvide #Underclass https://projectedfigures.com/2019/03/20/us-2019/

An all-female household falls under the spirit of Iranian repression: Babak Anvari's ingeni(e)ous socio-psychological allegory UNDER THE SHADOW (2016), screens 6.10pm today at NFT3, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Djinn #FemaleOpppression #Iran #Horror https://projectedfigures.com/2016/08/29/under-the-shadow-2016/

Sometimes you have to go back to move forward, and Flanaganned prequel OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016) magically makes an excellent, thoughtful, resonant follow-up to a blandly conventional original. Screens 6.10pm NFT2 #BFISouthbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #ProblemOfEvil #Séance #Bullying #Trauma #MikeFlanagan https://projectedfigures.com/2017/05/08/ouija-origin-evil-2016/

Divided state: Andrzej Zulawski's sublime singularity POSSESSION (1981) was somehow both arthouse darling and video nasty. To see it is to understand that 'somehow'. Screens 3.30pm in NFT1, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Berlin #Adultery #Dualism https://projectedfigures.com/2013/07/02/possession-1981

In the beginning was the word: Bruce McDonald's shockjock horror PONTYPOOL (2008) delivers uniquely Saussurean apocalypse. My favourite 21st-century horror. "The signs are posted all over town."
Screens 12:20pm today in NFT3, BFI Southbank
#InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Zombies #Words #Virus https://projectedfigures.com/2015/03/09/pontypool-2008/