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Remake and Revenge: The Virgin Spring + The Last House on the Left

Pervert Pictures x Scalarama Leeds presents: Remake and Revenge: A double feature of The Virgin Spring (1960) and The Last House on the Left (1972).

'R*** and revenge' - The controversial sub-genre has been maligned, celebrated, exploited, and subverted, and is still very much alive today, whether we like it or not. Pervert Pictures presents the film that started it all, and the once-banned 'video nasty' it inspired.

Approximate timings:

Doors: 18:30
Intro + The Virgin Spring: 19:00
Break: 20:30
The Last House on the Left: 20:40
End: 22:10

CONTENT

Freaky Farley + short film

In a small New Hampshire town, the local peeping tom, Freaky Farley is embroiled in a tale of murder, monsters, ninjas, witches, angst, anger, insecurity and madness. Screening prefaced with video introduction and short fake trailer from Roxburgh.

This is a new film programmer so please show your support and it's FREE!

Part of Scalarama Leeds DIY Film Festival -

Scalarama Leeds is a DIY celebration of cinema by anyone, for everyone, everywhere! Anybody can join and put on a film screening in our film festival - which can be screened anywhere in Leeds.

Theatre of Blood

'Vincent Price has reserved a seat for you in the 'Theatre of Blood!'

Queer Fear x Scalarama Leeds presents a screening of THEATRE OF BLOOD, a dementedly funny and deliciously macabre cult caper starring queer icon Vincent Price and Diana Rigg.

This hugely influential 1970s British horror classic follows a Shakespearean actor (Price) hellbent on deadly revenge against the snobby theatre critics who panned his performances.

Content warnings: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12324

Seconds

Psychotronic Cinema x Scalarama Leeds presents this haunting paranoid masterpiece from John Frankenheimer starring Rock Hudson. Middle age businessman gets the opportunity to live again as the bohemian artist he always wanted too in a Malibu community but with a price!

Lady Vengeance

Citrus Kino x Scalarama Leeds presents the third instalment of Park Chan-Wook's revenge trilogy comprising of 'Mr Vengeance' and 'Oldboy'.

Thriller-drama Lady Vengeance, follows Lee Geum-ja as she serves a prison sentence for a murder she didn't commit.

After her release, her meticulous and cold revenge is plays out enlisting the help of former cellmates, and a local detective. A haunting exploration of the human capacity for both compassion and cruelty, set against striking visuals and moral ambiguity.

Scalarama Leeds Film Quiz

Do you know your dolly zoom from your Dutch angle?

Yes, it's back! 

Our annual Scalarama Film Quiz, where there'll be questions for all brain sizes and film-based prizes! 

No need to book, just turn up and there will also be lots of people you can form a team with if you're on your own too. Will be lots of film trivia based fun, with lots of differen rounds including a picture round!

 IF you've got the film knowledge we want to see you at the quiz! 

Hosted by Scalarama Leeds team members.

Rosemary's Baby

A fabulous slice of classic 1960s horror - a psychological deep dive into paranoia, suspicion and feelings of persecution. Mia Farrow stuns alongside a subtle critique of gaslighting, gender roles and bourgeois society, all served on a plate with unspeakable tension, overwhelming dread and extremely divisive haircuts.

This is part of Scalarama Leeds a DIY film festival where anyone can put on a film screening anywhere throughout the month of September

The Lover

Pervert Pictures x Scalarama Leeds presents SUGAR, SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE PART 3: 'The Lover' - the final film in a season exploring cinema's sexualisation of girls.

Based on Marguerite Duras' 1984 memoir, 'The Lover' is an erotic, sweaty and divisive romantic drama complicated by both the ages of its lovers and the colonial backdrop of French Indo-China.

Like A Virgin: A Screening of Singapore Sling

Vee Dagger x Scalarama Leeds presents an audacious tale of a mother and daughter who enact unspeakable acts in a gothic mansion, reaching new depths of depravity on the arrival of a mysterious private eye. A bottled-up monochrome arthouse depravity – musky Greek tragedy with notes of film noir. 

Drag performances after screening from:

Xero Phucse, coming at you with dramatics and high emotion from Leeds' golden child.