Carolco Night
Koolhoven & Simons: Carolco Night
Koolhoven and Simons delve into the illustrious past of the American film studio Carolco Pictures, producer of blockbusters such as Basic Instinct, Total Recall and Terminator 2. As the planned Cutthroat Island and Johnny Handsome get a 4K release later this year, tonight we're screening John Carpenter's prophetic They Live.
Cutthroat Island was intended to be a blockbuster that would revive the adventurous swashbuckler genre and reinvigorate the troubled Carolco Pictures, Inc. It was not to be. Although the studio had scored hits in the past with Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Total Recall and Basic Instinct, Carolco had spent far too much. The studio banked everything on what basically amounted to a wedding gift for director Renny Harlin to his new wife Geena Davis.
Preceded by trailers for films including: Rambo: First Blood, Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Basic Instinct and Red Heat, followed by a genre film from the Carolco Studio.
They Live
The previously programmed title Cutthroat Island has unfortunately been cancelled due to a rights issue related to the film's 4K release later this year. Instead, we're showing John Carpenter's prophetic They Live (1988). In this sci-fi film, two construction workers discover that the world's population is being controlled and exploited by an alliance of alien settlers and human elites. The two battle it out, making no bones about what they think of the alien invasion: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
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Production year
2023
Length
179 min.
Event language
Dutch
Moderator
Martin Koolhoven & Ronald Simons
Country
NL
Language
English
Subtitles
Dutch
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Koolhoven & Simons
Every month, Koolhoven and Simons will be scrutinizing the genre film, presenting films within pretty forthright themes that have never before been screened at Eye. Expect evenings on Trucker, Grindhouse or Revenge of Nature films. A tribute to rarely screened trailers and forgotten classics, where possible in 35mm, using films from Eye’s collection.
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