On Sun 30 July, between 6.30pm until 10pm, Fractured Visions will be taking over the Tramshed Cinema, Cardiff.
They’ll be serving up a double-helping of cult movie madness, with the most depraved, frightening and downright insane slices of genre cinema to come to the big screen.
From the erotic and lacerating Gialli from Italy, to the slice and dice of American Slashers and all the way to the gung-ho and slap happy cinema of the East. Each month, Fractured Visions will be showcasing the wildest examples of cult film in Tramshed.
This inaugural event will take fans to the exotic delights of Alicante, Spain and then on to America with two Spanish Slasher films that lovingly tried their best to ape the films coming from America in the wake of John Carpenter’s Halloween.
First up is legendary Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco’s only entry into the demented world of Slasher cinema:
BLOODY MOON
Lovingly nicknamed Uncle Jess by his many fans, 1981’s Bloody Moon marked a radical shift in tone for its prolific director. Known for his ability to adapt and work within any genre; he dabbled in everything from comedic spy films to hardcore porn, Uncle Jess blessed his fans with this lone entry in the Slasher canon.
The buxom young women of a language school in Spain are falling prey to a maniacal psychopath with a penchant for sharp objects. All signs point to the disfigured Miguel, an ex-mental patient with a fondness for his own sister, Manuela. Banned in Britain upon its initial release, Bloody Moon is now once again available, and uncut, for the first time.
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Finishing the night will be Juan Piquer Simón’s outrageous Giallo/Slasher hybrid:
PIECES
It’s exactly what you think it is…
“You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!” mocks the tagline. Shot mostly in Madrid, while trying their damnedest to pass it off as Boston, Pieces is a lovable attempt to cash-in and follow in the footsteps of Friday the 13th’s violent excess.
A chainsaw-wielding madman is on the loose, terrorising the students of a Boston University. The red herrings pile up as quickly as the corpses, everyone’s a suspect.
Juan Piquer Simón is no stranger to dedicated horror fans, having provided us with such titles as Slugs and The Rift, but with Pieces he delivered his masterpiece in splatter carnage. A global cult phenomenon, Pieces is unlike anything you will have seen before.
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Fractured Visions is headed-up by Phillip Escott and Craig Newman, two Cardiff filmmakers with a life-long passion for genre cinema. Their debut film, Cruel Summer, starred Emmerdale’s Danny Miller and was released in February 2017 following its World Premiere at the biggest, and most prestigious, genre film festival in the UK – FrightFest.
words AMANDA HUNT
Info: tramshedcardiff.com