14 August 2007

MORE FANTASIA FILMS (from around the world):

Offscreen (Denmark, 2007) ☆☆☆☆☆
Director Christopher Boe has put together a film made out of basically home videos. These videos come from actor Nicholas Bro, who during a whole year recorded his everyday life activities and carried around a camera with him almost everywhere. When his friends, and finally his girlfriend, get fet up and break all contact with him, he starts to lose it. Nicholas thinks he is shooting a film, and for this reason asks other friends to help him finish his "production". Nobody takes him seriously and finally, when he loses it, he commits an atrocious crime, all caught on tape and shown to the spectator. It is fake "reality tv" style that shocks. The film suddenly stops being a documentary and strays into fiction, but the line is blurred and makes you believe every scene you are watching is real. Another original Danish production.

Diary (Hong Kong, 2006) ☆☆☆☆
Winnie is a schizophrenic young woman. She sees and hears things all the time. She lives alone in her appartment. Little by little the viewer realizes Winnie has not only killed his boyfriend, but is also about to commit another crime. When she meets another guy who looks like his boyfriend and invites him for dinner, things turn really bad. This movie is a mixture of paranoia, mental illness and murder that will make your mind work to try to find out who is the actual murderer.

Zero City (Russia, 1988) ☆☆☆
Moscow engineer Alexei Varakin arrives to a strange town. In it, there is no one on the streets, and when he arrives to his appointment at a local company, the secretary sits in her desk fully naked! This is only the beginning of many other surreal events taking place in Zero City, where Alexei witnesses a murder and has to stay in town while police makes enquiries as to what really happened. A very strange sci-fi movie from the former Soviet Union.

Nightmare Detective (Japan, 2007) ☆☆
Kyoichi Kagenum is a dream analyzer. He is called upon to help solve a series of crimes taking place in a city. The movie uses a lot of surreal imagery to capture the viewer's attention. But what we are actually seeing is the murderer's mind, and how it sees things. Kyoichi must go inside the murderer's dreams in order to trace him and capture him. A violent headtrip of a horror/crime film.

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