Cork Film Festival announces Fear Screen programme at Triskel through March
A scene from Mother Joan Of The Angels, part of the Fear Screen programme at Triskel in Cork.
Cork cinema audiences beware – Fear Screen is back at Triskel for the month of March. The programme of chilling tales is again the result of a collaboration between Cork International Film Festival and Triskel Arts Centre, and will screen at the Tobin Street venue through Thursday nights in March.
Possessed Polish nuns, French slashers, and German serial killers feature in a programme of lesser-seen films that offer an alternative to the American offerings that dominated the commercial horror world.
Each screening will be introduced by CIFF programme manager, Si Edwards, and the programme will be complemented by an online programme of French horror shorts.
Tickets are available through Cork festival’s website, corkfilmfest.org. The full programme is:
A widowed expectant mother is terrorised by a strange woman who wants her baby. Unrelenting in its horrific, gory violence (and still banned in Germany), with a terrifying performance from Beatrice Dalle, Inside will have you on the edge of your seat, and covering your eyes.
In 17th century Poland, a young priest is sent to a countryside parish to assist with the exorcism of a nun believed to be possessed by demons. Loosely based on the same case that was later to influence Ken Russell’s The Devils, Mother Joan Of The Angels is a true classic of Polish cinema, and won the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
The story of Fritz Harmann, serial killer and cannibal, who plagued a small town in wartime West Germany. Directed by Ulli Lommel, who later made notorious video nasty The Boogeyman’ and produced by Ranier Werner Fassbinder, the film features many of Fassbinder’s regular actors in its cast, including Kurt Raab, who also wrote the screenplay, relishing in his sinister portrayal of Harmann.
The directorial debut form the Italian master of horror, Dario Argento. An American writer becomes a key witness in an attempted murder believed to be carried out by a notorious serial killer, and soon becomes the target of the murderer’s intentions. A landmark moment in giallo cinema.
Meanwhile, the Cork French Film Festival has been announced for the Arc Cinema for March 6-9. Offerings include Palme d’Or nominee Beating Hearts, and Toronto International Film Festival winner, Shepherds.
There’s also a retrospective of the work of the great Michel Blanc, who died in October 2024. Films featuring the late French actor include comedy, The Little Victories (Les Petites Victoires), and hugely successful crime drama Monsieur Hire.
- For information and tickets, see corkfrenchfilmfestival.com
