Fear Screen: European Thrillers and Horror at CIFF
Thursday evenings – 7th – 28th March, 2024 – at Triskel Arts Centre
BE VERY AFRAID!
Fear Screen: European Thrillers and Horrors at CIFF presents a selection of gripping tales and chilling masterpieces, curated by CIFF and screening every Thursday at 8pm for the month of March at the Triskel. From Gothic thrillers to the best of the ‘found footage’ genre to darkly comic folklore, each feature will be introduced by CIFF Programme Manager, Si Edwards.
Cork audiences can catch 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 Troll Hunter from Norway (André Øvredal, 2010).
The season of cinematic bone chillers will be complemented by an online programme of European horror shorts, available on CIFF’s Digital Festival Platform from Friday, 29th March – Monday, 1st April. Details of this special digital programme can be found here.
FEAR SCREEN TICKETS AND PASSES
Individual Tickets:
- Cinema Tickets: €11.50 (concessions €9)
- Under 25s (Cinema/Online): €7.50
- Festival Friends can avail of concession price tickets of up to 20%
Fear Screen Season Pass:
- 4 x cinema pass: €38 (concessions €32)
- 4 x cinema pass for Under 25s: €24
Want to support Ireland’s first and largest film festival and gain access to a great range of benefits such as discounted ticket prices, invitations to exclusive events, screenings and more? Then consider becoming a CIFF Festival Friend. More information here.
THE PROGRAMME
Thursday, 7th March, 8pm in Triskel Arts Centre
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Dir. Georges Franju – France – (1960) – 15 (NC)
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.
Watch the trailer for Eyes Without a Face here.
Thursday, 14th March, 8pm in Triskel Arts Centre
MORGIANA
Dir. Juraj Herz – Czech Republic – (1972) – 15A
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”.
Watch the trailer for Morgiana here.
Thursday, 21st March, 8pm in Triskel Arts Centre
[REC]
Dir. Jaume Balagueró,Paco Plaza – Spain – (2007) – NOT SUITABLE FOR UNDERS 18s
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.
Watch the trailer for [REC] here.
Thursday, 28th March, 8pm in Triskel Arts Centre
TROLL HUNTER
Dir. André Øvredal – Norway – (2010) – 15A
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.
Watch the trailer for Troll Hunter here.
Proudly presented by Cork International Film Festival at Triskel Arts Centre
