Ove
godine na Grosmanu – SPEKTAKL! Sudar horor titana nezabeležen u dosadašnjoj
istoriji festivala – ali evo, već u 11. godini, na pragu druge decenije,
postavili su sebi lestvicu vrlo visoko!
Da se
razumemo, bilo je odličnih, prvorazrednih gostiju na Grosmanu i do sada (Kristofer Li, Rodžer Korman, Ruđero
Deodato, Đorđe Kadijević, Brajan Juzna, Jorg Butgerejt...) ali nikada na
gomili, odjednom.
A
ovog leta, tačnije od 14-18. jula, u
malom (geografski) ali ogromnom (filmofilski) Ljutomeru, gostovaće kultni glumac Udo Kir (Meso za
Frankenštajna, Krv za Drakulu...),
najbolji horor reditelj koji je
debitovao u poslednjih četvrt veka, Ričard
Stenli (Hardware, Dust Devil)
i genijalni
kompozitor Sajmon Bosvel, autor
legendarnih skorova za sve Stenlijeve filmove, plus za Santa Sangre, Lord of Illusions, Stage Fright, Perdita Durango…
Njima će se, reprizno, pridružiti kultni andergraund nekro-blesan, Jorg Butgerejt (sa novim filmom, ili
bar 1/3 filma) koji je ranije već overio Grosmana!
Biće
tu i stalni gosti iz Srbije: Nenad
Bekvalac (koji će voditi razgovor sa Udom i još nekim gostima-rediteljima)
i njegova goth-žena (koja će dodatno mračiti gotske noći u pitomom Ljutomeru), Sendi Kumalakanta, efx majstor koji je
prolivao krv i sekao delove tela u prvom slovenačkom horor filmu (žanrovski
posmatrano) pod zavodljivim nazivom IDILA... Ova grozljivka bi trebalo da učini da sasvim zaboravimo da je ikada postojalo nešto što se zvalo VINOPIRI...
Najzad, biće tu i dr Dejan Ognjanović
koji je napokon izlobirao i izdejstvovao gostovanje Stenlija i Bosvela, s
kojima će voditi javne razgovore na ljutomerskom trgu (tzv. "master
class", mada bi to preciznije trebalo da se zove "doctor class"!) a pored toga na Grosmanu će promovisati
i svoju novu studiju o horor književnosti, POETIKA HORORA. S njim će o njoj
razgovarati vodeći slovenački ekspert za horor žanr, Mr Marko Mehtsun.
Biće
prisutni i drugi strani gosti – uglavnom reditelji – čiji filmovi igraju u
takmičarskom delu programa, uključujući tu i Kristijana (Živi i mrtvi)
Milića, čija akciona fantazija, film
55
(dakle, 55 a ne 505 S CRTOM!), o hrvatskim junacima
opkoljenim i pobijenim od strane četničkih monstruma otvara festival.
Filmski
program je i ove godine bogat i raznovrstan, i što me posebno raduje – blaženo rasterećen
izvikanih američkih "horora": mnogo veći naglasak je na Evropi i
Južnoj Americi, uz nešto Rusa i ostale ex-SSSR bratije. Evo kako izgleda
filmski program – ako kliknete na naslov filma, link vas vodi na njegov opis i
trejler na Grosmanovom sajtu!
Retrospective: Richard Stanley, Simon Boswell
Vicious Cat
STUNG
Germany, USA; 2015; 87 min
Directed by: Benni Diez
IDYLL
/ IDILA
Slovenia; 2015; 85 min
Written and directed by: Tomaž Gorkič
GHOUL
Czech Republic; 2015; 86 min
Directed by: Petr Jákl
GERMAN ANGST
Germany; 2015; 111 min
Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski,
Andreas Marschall
Grossmann Grindhouse
BLOOD MOON
Velika Britanija / UK; 2014; 90 min
Directed by: Jeremy Wooding
III
Russia, Germany; 2015; 89 min
Directed by: Pavel Khvaleev
CLINGER
USA; 2014; 81 min
Directed by: Michael Steves
Shock Doc
LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF
RICHARD
STANLEY'S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
USA; 2014; 97 min
FUTURE SHOCK! THE STORY OF 2000AD
UK; 2014; 105 min
42ND
STREET MEMORIES
UK; 2015; 82 min
EATEN ALIVE!
THE
RISE AND FALL OF THE ITALIAN CANNIBAL FILM
UK; 2015; 85 min;
MARK OF THE TIMES:
THE
NEW WAVE OF BRITISH BLOODSHED
UK; 2015; 48 min
GARUDA POWER: THE SPIRIT WITHIN
France, Indonesia; 2014; 77 min
Torture Garden
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT / LIMBO
Argentina; 2015; 96 min
FACE OF THE DEVIL / LA CARA DEL DIABLO
Peru; 2014; 87 min
FEED THE DEVIL
Canada, UK; 2015; 95 min
THE HOUSE AT THE END OF TIME /
LA
CASA DEL FIN DE LOS TIEMPOS
Venezuela; 2013; 94 min
THE ENTITY / LA ENTIDAD
Peru; 2015; 80 min
Tu su još i programi Nordic Genre Invasion i muzički
dokumentarci iz selekcije Noisy Cat
i još trista čuda – koja možete videti na Grosmanovom sajtu, ako kliknete OVDE.
Uda Kira svi znate i njemu
ne treba predstavljanje. Ali, za slučaj da vam je nekako promaklo moje stalno
insistiranje na Stenlijevoj
genijalnosti, i na izuzetnosti skorova Sajmona
Bosvela, evo kratkih najava za ovu dvojicu majstora strave koje sam lično
sročio za Grossmann:
Richard Stanley is Coming to Grossmann 2015
We are very happy to announce the arrival of director
and screenwriter Richard Stanley to this year’s Grossmann Festival where
he will head the Vicious Cat jury.
Richard Stanley is one of the last true mavericks of
horror cinema. He tested his craft in several shorts and in music videos for Fields
of the Nephilim and Public Image Limited before he brought a
fresh and uniquely apocalyptic vision in his feature debut, Hardware (1990). Hardware's
success led to Dust Devil (1992), a true masterpiece of the supernatural
disguised behind horror's most despised subgenre, slasher. But slasher is here
a mask, just like SF was in Hardware. Behind it lies a
metaphysical questioning of the roots of material and spiritual existence,
dressed in imagery borrowed and shapeshifted from Sergio Leone's spaghetti
westerns and Tarkovsky's surreal ruminations.
Stanley's restless spirit
took him all over the world in search for the meaning behind the veils of
appearances. In vivo, and through his documentaries, he has investigated
various esoteric traditions: Afghanistan mountain folklore in Voice of the
Moon (1990), Nazi occultism and its links with the legends of the Holy
Grail and the Cathars in The Secret Glory (2001), Haitian voodoo practices
in The White Darkness (2002) and, ultimately, a further investigation
of the Cathar beliefs in The Otherworld (2013).
Two segments in recent
horror anthologies, "The Mother of Toads" in The Theatre
Bizarre (2011) and "Coltan" in the still unreleased The
Profane Exhibit (2015?), signal his return to filmmaking which
should come in fool bloom with his announced feature length adaptation of H. P.
Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space.
We will pay tribute to this
unique filmmaker with a special retrospective of his films and a screening
of David Gregory's documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard
Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. There will also be a special master
class, moderated by Serbian writer and critic Dejan Ognjanović who
has also contributed an in-depth article on Stanley for our website and program
booklet which was partly used in this news.
Simon Boswell at Grossmann 2015
With much joy we announce
the arrival of film score composer Simon Boswell to this year's
Grossmann where we will together celebrate 30 years of his work in cinema.
Simon Boswell (born in
London in 1956) has left an indelible mark on horror genre through numerous
memorable and now-classical scores from the 1980s and 1990s in which he
combined electronic elements with orchestral instruments.
He was an accomplished musician
by the time he started his film career in 1985, when several of his themes were
used in Dario Argento's Phenomena. This led to his first
composer credit, for Argento-produced Demons 2 (1986) directed by
Lamberto Bava; he did several more scores for Bava Jr. and other Italian horror
directors, most notably for Michele Soavi's debut Stage Fright (1987).
His wonderful scores added
grandeur and beauty to visionary works of several auteurs known for their
unique style, like Alejandro Jodorowsky (Santa Sangre, 1989), Clive Barker (Lord of
Illusions, 1995), Álex de la Iglesia (Perdita Durango, 1997)
and Juraj Jakubisko (Bathory: Countess of Blood, 2008).
A special part of Boswell's
career is linked with the director Richard Stanley: his haunting, melodic
tunes have become inextricable from this director's films Hardware (1990)
and Dust
Devil (1992), but they also add the mystical mood to all of
Stanley's documentaries, too.
This composer is not
devoted only to horror and fantastique: he contributed remarkable scores for
Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave, and
also for Hackers, Photographing
Fairies, A Midsummer Night's Dream and dozens of others.
In 2015 Simon Boswell
celebrates 30 years of his work in cinema: a perfect timing to reunite him with
his long-time inspirator, Richard Stanley, and greet them both on Grossmann!
Besides a special retrospective, there will also be a master class, moderated
by Serbian writer and critic Dejan Ognjanović who has also
contributed an in-depth article on Boswell for our website and program booklet
which was used in this article.
