Feel the fear: Cork Film Festival announces season of European horror films at Triskel
A scene from Morgiana
A season of thrills, terror and suspense will take place at the Triskel as part of Cork International Film Festival (CIFF) in March.
From Gothic thrillers to the best of the 'found footage' genre and more, films will be screened every Thursday at 8pm as part of Fear Screen: European Thrillers and Horrors at CIFF and each will be introduced by programme manager, Si Edwards.
Cork audiences can see Georges Franju’s 1960 French fairytale horror Eyes Without a Face, Czech Gothic thriller Morgiana (Juraj Herz, 1972), the terrifying [REC] from Spanish duo Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza (2007), and the darkly comic yet shocking Trollhunter from Norway (André Øvredal, 2010).
“Our inaugural ‘Fear Screen’ season proved enormously popular last spring and we can’t wait for audiences to discover these horror classics on the big screen in the Gothic, atmospheric surrounds of the Triskel,” said director and CEO Fiona Clark.
An online programme of European horror shorts will also be available on CIFF’s Digital Festival Platform nationwide later next month.
Tickets are available now from corkfilmfest.org.
The 69th Cork International Film Festival will take place later this year, from Thursday November 7 to Sunday November 17.
Thursday March 7, 8pm
Georges Franju’s masterpiece of fairytale horror, where the “princess locked in the tower” is assumed by the facially disfigured, waxen masked daughter of a doctor obsessed with restoring her beauty via experimental skin grafts. Beautiful, chilling and ultimately horrific.
Thursday March 14, 8pm:
Coming in at the tail end of the Czech new wave, Juraj Herz dropped this eyeball-warping Gothic thriller about twin siblings Klára and Viktoria (both played with much relish by Iva Janžurová). When the scheming Viktoria decides to kill good-natured Klára, her own luxuriant life becomes consumed by plotting, suspicion and paranoia. A visual explosion of extravagant eyeliner and fish-eye lens “cat vision”, which Prague’s Kino Světozor described as “like a dress-up, younger-generation version of Baby Jane, set in an ornamental snow globe”.
Thursday, March 21, 8pm
One of the best entries into the found footage genre, and certainly one of the most terrifying, is Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s [REC], which sees a TV reporter and her cameraman following a crew of firemen on their nightly rounds, only to stumble into a bizarre outbreak in an apartment block that turns the residents into ravenous cannibals. A real edge of the seat, hands over the eyes treat.
Thursday March 28, 8pm
A small crew of student filmmakers investigating bizarre deaths in the Norwegian outdoors discover a man secretly employed by the government to eradicate the cause of these incidents - trolls. Playing with all the fairytales and folklore with a darkly comic tone, and still having the power to shock, Troll Hunter has its tongue firmly in its trollstench-caked cheek.
