Bill Morrison, Bill Frisell, various
Experiments in Terror Vol. 2
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Original format 16mm, 35mm, digital
Year 1963-2006
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Bill Morrison, Bill Frisell, Damon Packard, J.X. Williams, Wago Kreider, Michelle Silva, Usama Alshaibi, Lloyd M. Williams, Angel Nieves, Clifton Childree & Nikki Rollason
Running time 95 min
Films
THE MESMERIST (2003), 15'
THE EARLY 70S HORROR TRAILER (1999), 9'
PSYCH-BURN (1968), 3'
BETWEEN 2 DEATHS (2006), 7'
AMOR PELIGROSA (2002), 3'
HOLD MY SCISSORS (2004), 4'
OPUS 5 (1963), 5'
THE FEAR (2001), 16'
SHE SANK ON SHALLOW BANK (2005), 12'
Description
Resonating once again in the darkest corners of the cinematic imagination, Experiments in Terror 2 assembles a body of macabre works to satisfy our most perverse celluloid cravings. The body parts of old cinema—silent, grindhouse, giallos, Hitchcock and Karloff—are exhumed, cut up, then folded back together into new macabre creations of frightening power and monstrous beauty through diabolical editing and sinister sound design. Using demented camerawork, hypnotic staging, and the alchemy of experimental technique, a new generation of horror filmmakers applies aesthetic shocks to the rotting corpses of genre codes, reanimating them into a thoroughly contemporary order of horror film—graphic, ironic, poetic... undead!
"Delirious and precise re-creations of nightmarish 60s psychedelic cinema and 70s horror... Plus animated skeletons running amok, experimental remixes of classic genre films, abandoned trailers and much more..."
Included titles:
The Mesmerist by Bill Morrison
(with music by Bill Frisell)The Early 70s Horror Trailer by Damon Packard
Psych-Burn by J.X. Williams
Between 2 Deaths by Wago Kreider
Amor Peligrosa by Michelle Silva
Hold My Scissors by Usama Alshaibi
Opus 5 by Lloyd M. Williams
The Fear by Angel Nieves
She Sank on Shallow Bank by Clifton Childree & Nikki Rollason
Extras
The mysterious Horror Closet with ghosts, freaks and Bela Lugosi!
A frightening cameo by Andy Warhol.
An essay booklet written by Jack Sargeant (author of Deathtripping and The Naked Lens)
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