In the Mood for Gore? Win a Pair of Tickets to the Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse Intruder Screening!
Debi Moore
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The newest Alamo Drafthouse is opening for business in Downtown Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, October 28th, featuring a program of new releases and classic film events; and of special interest to the horror crowd is their team-up with Subway Cinema for an ongoing showcase of rare Asian cinema offerings, starting with “In the Mood for Gore,” featuring Asian horror films from the ‘80s and ‘90s, all on 35mm prints from the American Genre Film Archive.
Prepare yourself for a roller coaster ride of high caliber thrills, grue-covered chills, and epic body fluid spills as Alamo/Subway show you why nobody is as insane in the membrane as Hong Kong filmmakers in their prime. Sometimes you’re in the mood to get funky, sometimes you’re in the mood for love, but this October get in the mood for gore with some of Hong Kong’s most infamous sense shockers and hard rockers.
“In the Mood for Gore” runs October 28th-30th, and the offerings include A Day Without Policeman, Eternal Evil of Asia, Love to Kill, and Intruder. We have a pair of tickets to give away for Intruder, which is screening Sunday, October 30th, at 4:35 pm.
To enter for your chance to win, just send an email to contests@dreadcentral.com including your FULL NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS along with “Intruder Brooklyn Screening” in your subject line. We’ll take care of the rest.
This contest will end at 12:01 AM PT on October 28th, and the winner will be notified Friday morning (10/28/16) via email. Tickets will be available for pickup at the box office. You must provide your own transportation to and from the screening.
Note: By entering this contest, you are consenting to allow Dread Central and its subsidiaries use of your email address.
About Intruder:
Never available on DVD, this is one of the lost movies made by Cannes Film Festival darling Johnnie To (Drug War, Election) and his Milkyway Image production company. Twitchy and sweaty with 1997’s Handover fever, this paranoid, rain-slick thriller kicks off in the dark when a Hong Kong cab driver picks up a Mainland hooker played by screen diva Wu Chien-lien. Then everything gets a whole lot darker. A criminal on the run, she has a new ID but needs one for her hubby, who’s still on the lam. The cab driver lives alone in the middle of nowhere, and he’s going to help her with her scheme, even if she has to saw off his limbs one by one.
Anchored by a chilling performance by Wu, this is a dark, bleak, rarely seen film that keeps topping itself in scene after marrow-curdling scene. Directed by Tsang Kan-cheung; starring Lam Suet, Moses Chan, Wayne Lai, and Wu Chien-lien.
Here’s a bit of history and more about the “In the Mood for Gore” event: Many years ago a Hong Kong distributor was getting rid of its entire warehouse of prints. It was all going in the dumpster – something like 600 movies. One of their employees was horrified at what was happening and alerted the folks at Subway Cinema, who got in touch with the Alamo guys, who agreed to drive out there in a big rig and take the prints off their hands.
Those prints went into the AGFA (American Genre Film Archive), where they were catalogued, stabilized, and stored safely. Four of them are in this line-up, which is a focus on Hong Kong horror. Because you don’t need a massive budget to pull off a horror film, it’s always been a genre that’s popular with Hong Kong producers, but with so many movies coming out of Hong Kong, especially in the Nineties, the trick is finding the jewels in the junk.
A DAY WITHOUT POLICEMAN, ETERNAL EVIL OF ASIA, LOVE TO KILL, and INTRUDER are jewels, and they’re all movies that aren’t even on DVD anymore and will likely never be on Blu-Ray because, as far as anyone knows, there are no elements to strike a disc from. Film preservation is tough in Hong Kong, and low budget shockers like these are usually the first movies to disappear. It’s exciting that the very first retrospective line-up at the new Alamo theater in NYC is one that showcases the hard work that fans are doing to save and preserve the crunkiest, funkiest, freakiest Hong Kong movies that otherwise would be lost forever.
Get more details, including links to purchase tickets, from the Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn website.
