The Monsters Are Taking Brooklyn Again!

First things first -- that might be the most gorgeous artwork for the Brooklyn Horror Fest to date? Totally gorgeous. Anyway this fest, one of my faves, is up to its seventh year now, and yes I have been covering it all seven. And today they announced the first round of titles for their 2022 spectacular -- you can see them all right here but the things that leapt right out at me (beside the fact that the fest has been officially taken over by Shudder, which is not a surprise in the slightest) are this. One, they are doing a retrospective of Lucio Fulci movies! It's eight films long and it will include the new 4K restoration of The Beyond that the master musician Fabio Frizzi created an entirely new score for. 

And two -- the Opening Night movie stars Eva Green! Called Nocebo it's from director Lorcan Finnegan (who made Vivarium) and it has Eva playing a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, who starts taking folk remedies that a Filipino caretaker (who just...shows up one day... dun dun dun), which leads to a rift with her husband (played by Mark Strong). I am sure this will all work out well for everybody involved! Anyway I'm intrigued (slash nervous) to see how the racial aspects play out here, but Eva Green anything is always welcome.

And third -- they've got Joko Anwar's new movie! The Indonesian master has made a sequel to his 2017 film Satan's Slaves and it's been out in his home country for several weeks now and I have watched in absolute raw jealousy as raves for it over there have passed by my eyes -- I wasn't sure when we'd get to see it here in the US, so this is welcome news indeed! 

Anyway there are several more titles of note in this, just the first announcement -- they've got the new V/H/S anthology film, they've got Benson & Moorehead's latest, they've got a doc about Stephen King movies and they've got Kyle Gallner and they've got the very fine movie The Harbinger, which I reviewed at Fantasia last month right here. The fest runs from October 13th through 20th and you can buy your fest badges right now at this link. Click on over and check it all out! Or else...

Thursday's Ways Not To Die

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Man I would love to properly explain to you what is happening here in this scene from Lucio Fulci's 1982 thriller chiller Manhattan Baby, I really would. If I had a clue! This is the big climactic ending of the movie, I should know what's happening! Or at least why what is happening -- a man is being attacked by his taxidermy -- is happening. And yet!

Here's what I can tell you. This dude who's about to reenact Tippi Hedren's attic scene in The Birds -- just 1) with taxidermied birds instead of real ones, and 2) inside of a Fulci film which means about 1000% more gore -- is named Adrian Marcato, and yes...

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Oh shit, a Rosemary's Baby shout-out! How perfect for an Central Park West set kiddie possession flick pic.twitter.com/Ljqe07l62E

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 30, 2020

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... that is indeed the same name as the head Satanist in Rosemary's Baby, good work. Not that that name comes to mean anything, but it's a nice shout-out. He's not a Satanist, he's just an antiques dealer. He is also kind of an exorcist? In the scene before this he somehow managed to cast an evil spirit out of a little girl who got a necklace in Egypt and no I am not going to try to explain this gibberish movie any further than that. The point is...

 ... dude 'bout to get Birded. And since as I mentioned this is coming at us from a Lucio Fulci film not only will there be a ton of gore, the scene is also ENDLESS. It's like four straight minutes of bird puppets flying around and pecking at this dude. Yes, it's awesome. Super awesome, you should go buy the blu-ray and watch it properly. But looong. So I'm taking the rest of my somewhat condensed version here after the jump now...