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18 October 2010 6:00 AM, PDT | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »

The 9th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival may just run for a mere five days in Switzerland on Oct. 20-24, but it hits with the force of a 10p-ton megaton bomb over that time period, packing in so much mind-boggling underground madness it’ll make your head explode.

Every year, the fest feels like 5 or 6 festivals crammed into one. There’s the fest that pays homage to the history of experimental filmmaking, there are the retrospectives of several cult festivals, a feature film competition section, a short film competition section and more.

Three filmmakers are especially getting major retrospective love this year. First, there’s legendary Canadian experimental filmmaker Michael Snow who will be in attendance at screenings of his classic films Wavelength, <–> and La région centrale, plus several of his other short films.

Also being feted are German extreme horror filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit, who will attend screenings of his classic Nekromantik, »

- Mike Everleth

3 April 2010 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

I was always going to have a soft spot for the retro horror pastiche The House of the Devil. After all, the schlocky slashers that it references and mimics with casual flair are the films I grew up on; tales of feisty babysitters cast adrift amid suburban satanic cults, involving long, slow build-ups interspersed with brief bouts of insane blood-spattering violence. It helps that director Ti West appears to be both a fan and a film-maker – which is more than can be said of the dunderheads behind the string of 70s and 80s slasher reboots that have recently troubled our multiplexes. While the (re)makers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its ilk have churned out lobotomised jittery trash for the Twitter generation, The House of the Devil is so lovingly old-fashioned in its pacing that viewers under 40 may well start to wonder when the hell anything is going to happen. »

- Mark Kermode

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