Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Horror and Suspense Films

Written by Joseph B. Mauceri

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival features a selection of horror and Suspense films where characters are confronting an overwhelming and insatiable evil urge, either within themselves or another. Find out what happens when a young successful woman loses the house of her dreams, and consequentially her sanity in DREAM HOME. Viewers of OPEN HOUSE witness a man struggling between his instinctual violent ways or taking the first step towards salvation. POSSESSED tells the story of the deathly domino effect of one woman’s disappearance, and her brother’s quest to solve her disappearance before the transparent but undeniably tangible evil claims another neighborhood victim. Finally, in THE KILLER INSIDE OF ME, the Festival’s audience will get a firsthand look at the mind of a crazed sociopath hidden inside the body of a southern gentleman, and the chaotic and violent result of what happens when he’s pushed too far. COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE Two men fortify and soundproof an abandoned apartment, kidnapping and imprisoning the daughter of a millionaire for ransom. Her kidnappers, the coldly efficient Vic and his younger accomplice Danny, have worked out a meticulous plan, but Alice is not going to play the perfect victim…. This taut, emotionally intense thriller eschews genre conventions, generating tension from the sexual and psychological ties that bind captive to captors. Screenings: Sat, Apr 24, 7:00PM - SVA Theater 2 Sun, Apr 25, 6:45PM - Village East Cinema 4 Mon, Apr 26, 9:00PM - Village East Cinema 1 DREAM HOME Cheng Lai-sheung is a young, upwardly mobile professional finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through, she is forced to keep her dream alive—even if it means keeping her would-be neighbors dead. Pang Ho-Cheung's disturbingly imaginative violence unfolds against a backdrop of lifestyle fetishization and the housing market crisis in this metropolitan spin on Guignol horror. Screenings: Sun, Apr 25, 10:00PM - SVA Theater 2 Mon, Apr 26, 9:30PM - Village East Cinema 6 Tue, Apr 27, 9:30PM - Village East Cinema 6 Fri, Apr 30, 11:45PM - Village East Cinema 2 THE KILLER INSIDE ME Casey Affleck is Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff whose continuous inner monologue reveals a savage sociopath hidden behind his accommodating Texan smile. When his escalating entanglements with a local prostitute and his prying fiancée back him into a corner, his urges will erupt in shocking violence. Michael Winterbottom's subversive film noir is adapted from cult pulp author Jim Thompson's novel. With Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Bill Pullman, and Elias Koteas. Screenings: Tue, Apr 27, 7:00PM - SVA Theater 1 Thu, Apr 29, 9:45PM - Village East Cinema 4 Fri, Apr 30, 10:30PM - Village East Cinema 7 LEGACY When a military effort to tackle a British-born Ukrainian arms dealer ends catastrophically, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray lands in a military hospital to overcome the torture he was subjected to. After nearly a year, Gray returns to Brooklyn and moves into a rundown apartment to reflect on the inconsistencies of the botched assignment. But Gray soon gets caught up in another impossible mission: to expose the corruption of a high-powered senator on the verge of announcing his presidential campaign, a senator who also happens to be his brother. Screenings: Tue, Apr 27, 9:00PM - Village East Cinema 1 Wed, Apr 28, 9:30PM - Village East Cinema 6 Thu, Apr 29, 12:00PM - Clearview Chelsea Cinema 7 Fri, Apr 30, 11:30AM - Village East Cinema 3 MESKADA In this meticulously crafted murder mystery, a police detective (Nick Stahl, In the Bedroom) charged with investigating a juvenile homicide in an affluent suburb finds he must return to his struggling hometown of Caswell to find the killers. As his investigation picks up intensity, the grieving mother begins a battle of will and vengeance with citizens of Caswell, igniting a class war between two vastly different towns in rural America. Screenings: Thu, Apr 22, 7:30PM - Village East Cinema 1 Sat, Apr 24, 12:00PM - Village East Cinema 1 Tue, Apr 27, 8:30PM - Village East Cinema 3 Fri, Apr 30, 3:00PM - Village East Cinema 1 METROPIA In the year 2024, all of Europe is united by a vast web of underground railways, populated by an army of downtrodden worker bees. When one such cog starts hearing voices and encounters a femme fatale shampoo model who seems to hold some answers, he finds himself unearthing a vast Orwellian conspiracy in this visually arresting animated noir. With the voices of Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, and Alexander Skarsgård. Screenings: Sat, Apr 24, 10:30PM - Village East Cinema 7 Sun, Apr 25, 11:45PM - Village East Cinema 2 Wed, Apr 28, 9:00PM - Village East Cinema 1 Sat, May 01, 12:45PM - Village East Cinema 4 MICMACS Bazil (Dany Boon, Joyeux Noël) is a gentle-natured but unlucky man with a bullet lodged in his brain. Together with a motley crew of wacky new friends, he exacts an intricate revenge plot against the giant weapons manufacturers responsible for his lowly lot in life. From the inimitable and hyper-imaginative director of Delicatessen and Amélie comes a wild and whimsical underdog story, a David and Goliath tale by way of Buster Keaton. Screenings: Thu, Apr 29, 6:00PM - SVA Theater 2 Fri, Apr 30, 10:00PM - Clearview Chelsea Cinema 8 Sat, May 01, 2:30PM - Village East Cinema 3 OPEN HOUSE Brian Geraghty gives a haunting performance as prim and taciturn David, forced for years to watch over his sexually predatory partner Lila and her violent urges. David longs for human connection and a less violent existence, and when a would-be victim becomes a chance at redemption, he is torn between his humanity and the only life he's ever known. Screenings: Sat, Apr 24, 9:00PM - Clearview Chelsea Cinema 7 Sun, Apr 25, 10:30PM - Village East Cinema 7 Mon, Apr 26, 5:45PM - Village East Cinema 2 Fri, Apr 30, 10:30PM - SVA Theater 1 POSSESSED In this eminently creepy horror show, college student Hee-jin returns home in the wake of her younger sister's disappearance, only to find her mother a fanatical religious convert and the family's neighbors offing themselves in increasingly bizarre and grotesque ways. Together with detective Tae-hwan, Hee-jin must unravel the tangled web of connections between the victims that will lead back to the missing girl. Screenings: Fri, Apr 23, 11:30PM - Village East Cinema 3 Sat, Apr 24, 6:45PM - Village East Cinema 4 Sun, Apr 25, 11:30PM - Village East Cinema 3 Sat, May 01, 11:59PM - Village East Cinema 1 THE SENTIMENTAL ENGINE SLAYER Reality and fantasy entangle in the semi-autobiographical tale of a twentysomething misfit's loopy trip through manhood in the dusty US-Mexico border town of El Paso, Texas. While director/writer/star Omar Rodriguez Lopez's psychedelic sonic sensibilities are most well-known for fueling the Grammy-winning rockers The Mars Volta, it is piercingly clear that he is also as a riveting and rare voice for independent American cinema. Screenings: Thu, Apr 22, 10:30PM - Village East Cinema 1 Fri, Apr 23, 10:30PM - Village East Cinema 7 Sun, Apr 25, 9:30PM - Village East Cinema 6 Tue, Apr 27, 5:45PM - Village East Cinema 2 TETSUO THE BULLET MAN More than 20 years after he used 16mm to prove himself worthy of a cult following with Tetsuo, The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto is back with another frenetic, hyperbolic experience (this time in English). This slick, modernized third installation of the Tetsuo series—shown here in the final director's cut for the first time—continues to challenge ideas of man and machine… and the trouble that ensues when the two become one. Screenings: Sun, Apr 25, 9:00PM - Village East Cinema 1 Tue, Apr 27, 7:30PM - Village East Cinema 7 Fri, Apr 30, 4:30PM - Village East Cinema 7 Sat, May 01, 11:45PM - Village East Cinema 2 LINK THIS ARTICLE

 

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