Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair - Year 3 Festival

About the Event

Schedule:

7:00 PM: GHOSTS... OF THE CIVIL DEAD

The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalized until they erupt in violence.

FORMAT: DCP

COUNTRY: Australia

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: MENACE II SOCIETY

Caine is a high school aged gangbanger who wants out of L.A.’s violence, drugs, guns, and death. As a child, Caine witnesses his father kill a man for no good reason and sees his mother die from a drug overdose. Growing up, he takes an older man from the neighborhood on as a mentor only to see him arrested and sent to jail. By high school age, Caine is dealing drugs, and his intimidation skills and nihilistic indifference to the social detriment of his lifestyle have earned him some street cred. MENACE II SOCIETY’S central dilemma: Caine wants out, but is he too far in, too caught up to see the alternatives?

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Park Circus

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: CINEMATIC VOID PRESENTS RUN AND KILL

In Cantonese with English subtitles.

The world of happy-go-lucky family man Cheung ‘Fatty’ Kau Ng (Kent Cheng) comes crashing down when he drunkenly orders a hit on his cheating wife. Suddenly propelled into the depths of a Hong Kong criminal underworld, he finds himself in the middle of a war between bloodthirsty Vietnamese gangsters and an ex-military Mainland Chinese gang led by the unstable Ching Fung, played with depraved glee by the legendary Simon Yam (FATAL TERMINATION). From the demented mind of the late, great Billy Tang comes RUN AND KILL, an unhinged cat-and-mouse thriller that takes nothing but nasty turns until the bitter end.

Format: DCP

Distributor: AGFA

Country: Hong Kong

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

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