Chema García Ibarra Selects
Chema García Ibarra - director of The Sacred Spirit
“I have selected some of my favourite films. I've included the best film of the 1970s (Don't Torture a Duckling), the best film of the 1980s (Full Moon in Paris), the extraordinary gem that is Malatesta's Carnival of Blood, the film that has my favourite joke in film history (Heathers), the film where the most Cuba Libres are requested in film history (Beware of a Holy Whore), my favourite little monster (Elmer from Brain Damage) and the film that works as a hypnosis session (The Mystery of Picasso)… All my Selects are films that I love with passion (and violence) if necessary.”
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Don't Torture A Duckling
From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (The Psychic, The Beyond), comes one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced: his 1972 masterpiece Don't Torture a Duckling.
When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a series of murders of young boys, the supersti...
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Brain Damage
Meet Elmer. He’s your local, friendly parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in his hosts. But these LSD-like trips come with a hefty price tag. When young Brian comes under Elmer’s addictive spell, it’s not long before he finds himself scouring the city streets in search of ...
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Malatesta's Carnival of Blood
You'll Shriek With Horror! Roll up, roll up! Step right up for Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood – the grisliest, freakiest show in town! Virtually impossible to find until its revival on DVD in the early 2000’s, this 1973 cult oddity, from one-time director Christopher Speeth, is a cinematic experie...
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Tale of Cinema
Tale of Cinema uses the trope of a film within a film to tell two stories, that of a depressive young man (Ki-woo Lee) who forms a suicide pact with a friend (Ji-won Uhm); and the tale of a filmmaker (Kim Sangkyung) who sees a film that he believes was based on his life, and who meets the actress...
