“Life is a mystery”
A surreal, dreamlike film exploring love, depression and death.
Casey Wickson
Paul
Lloyd Kaufman
Deacon
Mark Borchardt
Lincoln
Patricia Campbell
Renee
Jerry Don Clark
Lyle
Eric Fleming
Sean
Masuimi Max
Dream Girl
For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it.
Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé’s teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin’s house by Jacques Rivette. Rivette also edited the film.
A slow, hot summer afternoon. A father sleeps while his child is drawing with pencils in a cross word puzzle. A wind moves through the grass - something bad is about to happen.
After Saturn XVI crashes back to Earth, ex-astronaut Arthur struggles with an infection. Richard and his friends are blind to it's origin but his victims won't be. The Doorway is open.
In 19th century Vermont, a young woman's parents drink sleeping tea in order to survive the harsh winter, but an early thaw leads to horrifying results.
Three friends staying at a motel are soon interrupted by an increasingly unsettling local emergency broadcast. With every message of caution that goes by, a growing threat looms over them as they fall under the eye of an unknown figure.
A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.
Ferdinand is trying to cope with the breakup with his girlfriend.
"Highway Hypnosis" - alternatively referred to as "white line fever" - is a dazed state in which a driver may travel long stretches of open road in a compliant and normal fashion, yet with little-to-no recollection of how their destination was reached.
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.