Cinema Egzotik: Paranoia Night

Egzotik programmer Ronald Simons explains: “Seconds – a film that makes up John Frankenheimer”s “paranoia trilogy” together with The Manchurian Candidate andSeven Days in May – is a snappy paranoia thriller with disorienting camera work and a fair share of horror. After the break manic suspicion hits the protagonists with full force, as Donald Sutherland”s character in Don”t Look Now is totally lost and confused after the sad death of his little daughter. He escapes to Venice, but there, too, the demons are after him, clad or not in mucky little red raincoats.”

Seconds John Frankenheimer US 1966 106” English spoken, Dutch subtitlesArthur Hamilton is a washed out banker who accepts a Faustian offer by The Corporation to have himself officially declared dead and live on by having his brain transplanted into another, younger and more athletic body. Reborn as “Tony Wilson” (Rock Hudson) he parties, paints and fornicates like never before... But what”s this strange and empty feeling inside? Frankenheimer frequently used the fish eye lens to enhance the sinister atmosphere of his Sci-Fi psychodrama. Watch out for the kinky grape-crushing party! +Don”t Look Now Nicolas Roeg IT GB 1973 110” English spoken, Dutch subtitles Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie are the Baxters, a couple whose little daughter Christine drowned. A clairvoyant claims to have sighted the child in Venice, and the parents move heaven and earth to try and find their little girl. Christine wore a bright red raincoat when she drowned – suddenly Venice”s serpentine alleys are teeming with them. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nominated Don”t Look Now as one of the best horror films ever.