Fear Screen: Thrillers and Horror at CIFF
Thursdays in March at 8.15pm + Online shorts throughout March.
DARE TO WATCH. FEAR TO FORGET.
Fear Screen presents a selection of gripping tales and chilling masterpieces, curated by CIFF and screening every Thursday at 8:15pm for the month of March at the Triskel. From French slashers and Italian giallo, to German serial killers and possessed Polish nuns, each feature will be introduced by CIFF Programme Manager, Si Edwards.
Cork audiences can catch Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury’s 2007 French slasher Inside, Polish 1961 Cannes winner Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz), the eerie Tenderness of the Wolves from Ulli Lommel (1973), and the directorial debut from Italian master of horror Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
The season of cinematic bone chillers will be complemented by an online programme of French horror shorts, French Fear – available on CIFF’s Digital Festival Platform from Thursday, 6th March – Sunday, 30th March. Details of this special digital programme can be found here.
FEAR SCREEN TICKETS AND PASSES
Individual Tickets:
- Cinema Tickets: €12.50 (Concessions €11)
- Under 25s/Students Cinema Tickets: €7.50
- Online Shorts Tickets: €5
- Festival Friends can avail of concession price tickets of up to 20%
Fear Screen Season Pass:
Includes 1 ticket to all cinema + online screenings.
- Season Pass: €45 (concessions €40)
- Student/Under 25s Season Pass: €15
- 2 Film Pass: €20
Want to support Ireland’s first and largest film festival and gain access to a great range of benefits such as discounted ticket prices, invitations to exclusive events, screenings and more? Then consider becoming a CIFF Festival Friend. More information here.
THE PROGRAMME
Thursday, 6th March, 8.15pm in Triskel
INSIDE
Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury | France | 2007 | 82 mins
A widowed expectant mother is terrorised by a strange woman who wants her baby. Unrelenting in its horrific, gory violence (and still banned in Germany), with a terrifying performance from Beatrice Dalle, INSIDE will have you on the edge of your seat, and covering your eyes.
This screening opens with the short film REAL (Rodrigue Hart, 4 min, France). 1857. Two peasant women find a smartphone in their field.
Watch the trailer for Inside here.
Thursday, 13th March, 8.15pm in Triskel
MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS
Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland | 1961 | 110 mins
In 17th century Poland, a young priest is sent to a countryside parish to assist with the exorcism of a nun believed to be possessed by demons. Loosely based on the same case that was later to influence Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’, MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS is a true classic of Polish cinema, and won the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
Watch the trailer for Mother Joan of the Angels here.
Thursday, 20th March, 8.15pm in Triskel
TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES
Uli Lommel | Germany | 1973 | 82 mins
The story of Fritz Harmann, serial killer and cannibal, who plagued a small town in wartime West Germany. Directed by Ulli Lommel, who later made notorious video nasty ‘The Boogeyman’, and produced by Ranier Werner Fassbinder, the film features many of Fassbinder’s regular actors in its cast, including Kurt Raab, who also wrote the screenplay, relishing in his sinister portrayal of Harmann.
Watch the trailer for Tenderness of the Wolves here.
Thursday, 27th March, 8.15pm in Triskel
THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE
Dario Argento | Italy | 1970 | 96 mins
The directorial debut form the Italian master of horror, Dario Argento. An American writer becomes a key witness in an attempted murder believed to be carried out by a notorious serial killer, and soon becomes the target of the murderer’s intentions. A landmark moment in giallo cinema.
Watch the trailer for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage here.
Proudly presented by Cork International Film Festival at Triskel Arts Centre
6th – 30th March Online
FEAR SCREEN SHORTS: FRENCH FEAR
A selection of French shorts where bodies change, childhood games turn cruel, and unseen forces lurk.
JUNIOR Julia Ducornau | France | 2011 | 22 mins
Justine, known as Junior, 13 years old, pimples and a sense of humor all her own, is a tomboy with a touch of misogyny. While she has been diagnosed with a fulminating gastroenteritis, Junior’s body becomes the scene of a strange metamorphosis…
THE TEETH OF HAPPINESS Joséphine Darcy Hopkins | France | 2023 | 23 mins
Eight-year-old Madeleine accompanies her beautician mother to visit new clients. When she gets home, she meets Eugénie, Constance and Émeraude, who invite her to the basement to take part in a cruel board game.
EVIL SEAWEED Antonin Peretjako | France | 2022 | 24 mins
Brittany. Green algae. Walkers disappear… The police investigate. What’s going on with the bobos in a villa on the coast.
