Today from 18:30-21.30 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Demons (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971), with an introduction by Dean Post

Right off the bat this Shakespearean tragedy of revenge is imbued with what can only be described as pure evil. This is a nightmare that does not end, a descent into hell that Dante would envy. Coming from the director of “Funeral Parade of Roses” and a whole bunch of avant-garde experimental films, “Demons” feels positively unreal, with a theatre stage-like mise-en-scene shrouded in a dark fog and chiaroscuro lighting in stunning black-and-white. Opening with a shot of the sundown in color, the film announces this black-and-white cinematography as a conscious choice, lending darkness to both shadow and blood; in accordance with the tagline that boldly states, “the world is a sea of blood”. An unrightfully forgotten film of obsession and madness – told through a performance by Katsuo Nakamura that rivals the likes of Peter Lorre in “M” – that is sure to horrify and intrigue.