“Let the Corpses Tan” @ Guild Cinema

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This event finished on 29 September 2018

Let the Corpses Tan at the Guild Cinema
Friday & Saturday, September 28-29 – 10:30 pm only

Directed by Helene Cattet & Bruce Forzani – 2018 – 92m.  Belgium/France – In French with English subtitles!  An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness presentation!  Door Prizes courtesy of Bubonicon 51!

Belgian filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani trade in the crushed velvet and creeping shadows of their giallo-worshiping first two films (Amer, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears) for blistering sun, creaking leather and raining bullets in this glorious homage to 1970s Italian crime films. After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the Mediterranean. Home to a reclusive yet hypersexual artist and her motley crew of family and admirers, it seems like a perfect hideout. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate, the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield as both sides engage in an all-day, all-night firefight rife with double-crosses and dripping with blood. Based on a classic pulp novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette and featuring vintage music cues by Ennio Morricone, Let the Corpses Tan is a deliriously stylish, cinematic fever dream that will slamfire your senses like buckshot to the brain.

“Meticulously executed, obsessively stylized. You almost expect to see Dario Argento or Mario Bava’s name on the credits and for Morricone to have composed the music.” – Allan Hunter, Screen International

“Beautiful, experimental and bold. One of the most exciting cinematic experiences I’ve had in quite some time. I couldn’t look away for fear of missing yet another thing I’d never witnessed before.” – Evan Saathoff, Birth.Movies.Death.

“An exercise in fetishization, of both the human body and the visual medium that captures it. There’s a gleeful, twisted imagination at work here.” – Vikram Murth, RogerEbert.com

“Cattet and Forzani might have made the quintessential midnight movie.” – Marshall Shaffer, Slash Film

“Let the Corpses Tan might be the best 1970s Italian crime thriller never made.” – Todd Gilchrist, Wizard World

“A fetishistic, ultra-violent exploitation flick that’s all kinds of artistic and exciting. A stunning display of visual seduction and slaughter-first gunplay.” – Matt Donato, We Got This Covered

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The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.

Website: GuildCinema.com