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• BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL (David Kittredge, US 2026)

  • When
    20 Oct 2026
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Queen
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  How do you follow one of the most successful horror movies ever made? If you’re John Boorman, you spend a fortune making something so strange, ambitious, and spectacularly ill-advised that audiences laugh at its premiere and critics compete to find new ways to destroy it. Boorman and the Devil tells the extraordinary story of the making of Exorcist II: The Heretic—the notorious 1977 sequel that nearly derailed Boorman’s career and became shorthand for the disastrous Hollywood sequel. But was it really that bad? Is it maybe a (highly flawed) masterpiece? Through remarkable behind-the-scenes material and reflections on Boorman’s wildly unconventional vision, the documentary makes the case for looking again at a film that Martin Scorsese thought surpassed the original even as influential critic John Simon called it “the stupidest major movie ever made.” Funny, fascinating, and unexpectedly moving, Boorman and the Devil, with interviews with the film’s cast and creators, admirers and stunned onlookers, is both a first-rate tale of filmmaking gone spectacularly wrong and a celebration of the kind of audacious cinematic failure Hollywood rarely risks anymore.

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  A funny, surprising, revealing and altogether fascinating document, bursting with crazy details about gonzo 1970s filmmaking.”

  —Kyle Smith, Wall Street Journal

  
  

  “A fascinating, funny and fully riveting film about the making of one of history’s most notorious critical and commercial failures.”

  —David Hughes, Time Out

  
  

  “An essential film for would-be critics, and, well, for anyone with a real passion for the cinematic art.”

  —Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film

  
  

  “Thoroughly enjoyable.”

  —Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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• This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (José Mojica Marins, Brazil 1967)

  • When
    22 Oct 2026
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    8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    The 101
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  This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (José Mojica Marins, Brazil 1967)

  
  

  Forget "elevated horror." (What a scam.) This is the kind of movie you want to see with a crowd—one ready to scream, gasp, laugh, and occasionally wonder what on earth they're watching! In THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE (1967), Brazilian horror legend José Mojica Marins returns as Coffin Joe, the top-hatted, cape-wearing, impossibly long-fingernailed undertaker whose search for the perfect woman leads him to commit acts of spectacular depravity. What follows is a delirious carnival of sadism, spiders, screaming women, philosophical rants, and a jaw-dropping descent into a Technicolor Hell that has to be seen to be believed. Part Gothic nightmare, part grindhouse exploitation, part deranged philosophical treatise, this is horror filmmaking at its most outrageous, inventive, and gloriously excessive. Is it frightening? Absolutely. Is it ridiculous? Frequently. Is it the work of a genuinely original cinematic imagination? Without question. Bring your friends, leave your inhibitions at home, and prepare for a night of collective terror and unrestrained laughter. Coffin Joe awaits!

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  “Exotic, hallucinatory and just plain twisted… A psychedelic blasphemous fever dream.”

  —Hal C. F. Astell — Apocalypse Later 

  
  

  "There may be a riotous celebration of carnality, and it’s part of the thrill, but there is also a dark nihilism at play that openly criticises all levels of society.”

  —Kat Ellinger, Senses of Cinema

  
  

  “The plot has to do with Ze do Caixao’s [Coffin Joe’s] desire to find the perfect woman to bear him a son … and he’s pretty picky. If a woman doesn’t enjoy having spiders crawl all over her body or have snakes wrapped around her neck, she’s not good enough for Coffin Joe. And if you’re are not good enough for Coffin Joe, well, you face certain doom…”

  —John Douglas, The Grad Rapids Press

  
  

  “Coruscating study of monstrous aestheticism” [We don’t know what this means, either].

  —Fernando F. Croce — CinePassion

  
  

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• EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (John Boorman, US 1977)

  • When
    27 Oct 2026
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    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    The Kimbell
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  EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC  

  (John Boorman, US 1977, 118 min.)

  

  
  

  Few sequels have crashed and burned quite as spectacularly—or as fascinatingly—as John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic. Made as the follow-up to one of the most successful horror films ever, Boorman’s film largely abandons the original’s grim realism for something altogether stranger: a delirious mixture of science fiction, mysticism, African mythology, psychic communion, tap dancing, locusts, and Richard Burton portentously delivering some of the most wonderfully solemn dialogue of his career. (Why say "evil" when you can say "eeev-el"?) Audiences and critics were baffled, and The Heretic quickly acquired a reputation as one of Hollywood’s legendary disasters. Yet its hypnotic images, extraordinary Ennio Morricone score, and almost reckless ambition have earned it a devoted cult following. Is it a misunderstood masterpiece? An unmitigated catastrophe? Or that rarest of cinematic pleasures—a genuine disasterpiece? Whatever the verdict, there is nothing else quite like it.

  A zoom Q&A with David Kittredge, director of the new documentary about the making of Exorcist II, Boorman and the Devil, will take place immediately after our screening.

  Reviews

  "There's enough visual magic in it for a dozen good movies... A horror fairy tale gone wild."

  —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

  
  

  “There is a very strong probability that Exorcist II is the stupidest major movie ever made.”

  —John Simon, New York Magazine

   

  “I like the first Exorcist, because of the Catholic guilt I have, and because it scared the hell out of me; but The Heretic surpasses it.

  —Martin Scorsese, Film Comment

  
  

  “The only time you’re likely to hide your head will be in shame for watching it.”

  —Jack Lewis, Daily Mirror

   

  “The sequel is as much of a masterpiece as the first movie is.”

  —Park Chan-wook, Director of Oldboy and No Other Choice

  "Staggering in its ineptitude."

  —Owen Gleiberman, Variety

  
  

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