Posted on Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 by
Tags: 7 Days, Chicago, IFC Midnight, Left Bank, Music Box, Mutants, The Horde, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE
Attention Chicago! You’re in for a treat in the coming month as the Music Box Theatre showcases 7 amazing films from the IFC Midnight catalogue:
IFC Midnight brings audiences the the very best in international genre cinema, including horror, sci-fi, thrillers, erotic arthouse, action, and more. These films have premiered at major film festivals such as Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, SXSW, New York, AFI, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
See showtimes for all currently schedule films.
Films Include:
The Horde
October 15, midnight; October 16, midnight
Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher, 2009, 90m
In order to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, four corrupt cops go on a rampage against the mob responsible.
A horde of bloodthirsty cannibal zombies complicates matters.
Mutants
October 22, midnight; October 23, midnight
David Morley, 2009, 95m
In a world devastated by a pandemic virus that turns human beings into primitive and bloodthirsty creatures, Marco and Sonia set off to find a secret base to escape from the “mutants”. When the latter attack them, Marco is contaminated too. Little by little, he undergoes the same changes. Sonia, who is expecting a baby, is then forced to fight her worst enemy, the man she loves.
The Human Centipede
October 29, midnight; October 30, midnight
Tom Six, 2009
Two naive American college students traveling through Europe become lost and disoriented in the woods after their car breaks down. They have the misfortune of stumbling upon the home and laboratory of mad scientist Dr. Heiter, a man once celebrated for his work separating Siamese twins who has now dedicated his life to the opposite cause—creating the perfect “human centipede.”
Dead Snow
November 5, midnight; November 6, midnight
Tommy Wirkola, 2009, 91m
The group of friends had all they would need for a successful Easter vacation: cabin, skis, snowmobile, toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them had anticipated not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains surrounding the aptly named Oksfjord (Axefjord) had other plans…
Left Bank
November 12, midnight; November 13, midnight
Pieter Van Hees, 2008, 102m
When Marie, an introverted young athlete, collapses and is forced to rest, she decides to move in with her new boyfriend in his flat in Left Bank. Their passionate relationship seems to be really helping her, until she discovers that the previous tenant of the flat mysteriously disappeared. Marie begins to doubt whether she can really trust her boyfriend. Life in Left Bank, once envisaged as a dream town, starts to become an alienating nightmare. Slowly, she loses grip on reality.
7 Days
November 19, midnight; November 20, midnight
Daniel Grou, 2010, 105m
A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who raped and murdered his young daughter.
Doghouse
November 26, midnight; November 27, midnight
Jake West, 2009, 89m
In the tradition of other great UK comedy horror films like Shaun of the Dead and Severance comes DOGHOUSE. Six men with mid-life anxiety set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity. What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life crisis turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it. The battle of the sexes just got bloody
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