The MOTELx, the horror film festival – and not only – Lisbon that began in 2007, goes back to the 10th edition, which was presented on Tuesday. From 6 to 11 September – with previous days dedicated to anticipation parties – the São Jorge Cinema and Tivoli BBVA Theatre, across the street, show several films and receive events and activities related to terror – other spaces include Cinematheque Junior, the end of the Mint Street, opposite the Lounge, the Odd School and Largo de São Carlos. In addition to Portuguese and international competition, the show will this year as a guest the Italian Ruggero Deodato, which in 1980 held the infamous “Cannibal Holocaust”, pioneer of “found footage” films still in vogue (as many of the images used in film were real event recordings and people).
in addition to two restored films of Polish director Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006), there are several interesting features, including new and classic movies. And the program is not yet closed, there will soon be more confirmations. Here are ten films to see in the tenth edition of MOTELx – the spelling is also new this year: before writing up MOTELx:
In active since the early 1980s, Kiyoshi Kurosawa – no it is not Akira family – is a bigger name Japanese horror (though also work with other genres), with films like “Cure,” “Pulse” or “Retribution”. The thriller this year made his debut at the Berlin Festival and is based on a book of Yutaka Maekawa. The story revolves around a mysterious psychopath urging its neighbors to be violent in the suburbs of Tokyo.
Salah is a student whose father owns a space that sells kebabs, is killed by thugs intoxicated. The young man is therefore obliged to take his father’s place and manage the store. One day, during an argument with another drunk customer, it dies. What follows is a kind of “Sweeney Todd” modern version, which will Salah killing more and using the flesh of their victims to put the kebabs and sell to customers. A British film shot in Bournemouth, with real images of people drinking on the streets, partly funded via Kickstarter.
In the 60s, several people were killed at random and beaten to death with a steel bar in Mumbai and surrounding areas. In 1968, Raman Raghav, the serial killer, was caught and confessed to having killed several people, but could not even tell for sure. He became known as Psycho Raman. The director Anurag Kashyap, much given to the exploitation of the crime and the police investigation – without great reverence by those who practice it – picked up this year in history to make a thriller that shows how it all happened and the police caught the killer
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the Danish and Swedish film with a lot of “Rosemary’s Baby” focuses on a young Romanian maid who is hired by a rich anti-technology couple to be belly rental. The couple’s wife is slight, but as the pregnancy progresses and the girl gets worse health, she is mysteriously better. It is the first film of Ali Abbasi, who was born in Iran and lives in Denmark, and admits, is not much given to terror.
Before I made this movie, Michael O’Shea was Porter disco, arranged computers and also worked as a taxi driver, always trying to write and carry out an independent drama. But did not make it. He gave up the indie world and turned to terror. Result: his first film, this “The Transfiguration”, premiered in Cannes. And it’s a kind of mix between drama of teenagers and vampire movie, focusing on a New York orphan 14 years young man who dives into the world of these monsters to escape loneliness and bullying that is targeted at school.
in the final stretch of the war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s, a building in Tehran is hit by a missile, but it is not destroyed. Instead, a mother and a daughter who live in the apartments, already with a lot of tension in life, are seen grappling with a strange presence at home. The Iranian debut film Babak Anvari, shot in Jordan, was one of the Sundance festival sensations this year.
Noah Baumbach, film director as “The Squid and the Whale,” “Greenberg” or “Frances Ha”, joined Jake Paltrow (the nickname does not disappoint: is the brother of Gwyneth) for this badaladíssimo documentary about Brian de Palma, you of films like “Carrie,” “Scarface” and “the Untouchables.” Basically, the two interviewed the legendary director with an obsession for Alfred Hitchcock over 30 hours with De Palma to talk about the ups and downs of his career and show film clips, always with a great sense of humor.
The idea of ”Tickled” was simple. David Farrier, a New Zealand journalist with a taste for exploring the bizarre, wanted to make a light story about a strange sport tickles resistance. Only a request to a producer who makes videos about this sport is rejected. The reason? Farrier is bisexual and that sport is too straight to be treated by someone like him. What follows is something completely different from what would be initially a documentary full of constant and unexpected twists in the plot with people who do not want, at all, that Farrier reach the truth.
Céline Dion, one of Quebec’s most famous people ever, have French as their first language. The first two songs were recorded in English versions of songs already sung in French. They never went into albums, only much later builds, but both appeared in this Canadian classic great horror for the whole family 1985 where a kid 11 years catch a disease to explore a mansion just burn and is without hair. It is visited by ghosts who tell you the solution: a magic formula, peanut butter, to let his hair grow. No need to like Dion to see -. and will be live bent
Filmed in 1992, this film Antonio Macedo that part of legends related to stones and the like of the Portuguese prehistoric times in the Alentejo He spent as a miniseries in RTP. At the time it was called “The Brazen Altar.” But the original idea was that it was a film with a different name. The director, who always had problems to see their work supported – and gave up activity to write and teach – and you’ve seen his films as “The Promise” to display in MOTELx recently received funding to finish the film, nearly 25 years after being started. That’s why this is a world premiere.
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