Supercharged Cinema
Nighttime is the right time for films fueled by adrenaline, and we’ve programmed this PSIFF showcase with four great, alternately action-packed, funny, scary and just plain freaky films dedicated to filmgoers who like their movies on the wild side. If your movie tastes run to films that embrace the giddy, the ghoulish, the ghastly or the gory, we have just the ticket for you: Supercharged Cinema hits the screen each Friday and Saturday night of the Festival at the Camelot Theatres, where our pals at radio station (_____) host thrill-filled evenings of movies and mayhem.
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Dreamship Surprise - Period 1
Germany, 2005, 88 min.
An irreverent spoof of the sci-fi genre from Star Trek to Star Wars set in the year 2304, when Martian colonies wage war upon the Earth. Our only hope against total annihilation is the prissy crew of the Dreamship Surprise. Unfortunately, they're better suited for the Miss Waikiki beac... more
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Hard Candy
USA, 2005, 104 min.
The spine-chilling exploration of sexual politics, vengeance and justice in Hard Candy is bound to inspire controversy. Yet Ellen Page's performance as 14-year-old Hayley Stark is so compelling that one cannot bear to turn away as she becomes involved with a 32-year-old fashion photographer w... more
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Lady Vengeance
South Korea, 2005, 113 min.
Flamboyant Korean director Park Chan-wook's latest (part three in the "vengeance trilogy" that includes Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Old Boy) follows a woman who, wrongly imprisoned for murder for 13 years, seeks redress in the most violently spectacular of ways. A stunningly cinemat... more
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The Long Weekend
USA, 2005, 92 min.
Jackass meets American Pie in this irreverent comedy about two very different brothers. Overworked and undersexed advertising exec Ed Waxman must come up with a brilliant advertising campaign in 48 hours or risk being fired. His playboy brother is determined to get Ed laid, thus settin... more
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