Name: THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH – Folk Horror Epic presented by CINEMANCERS!
Start: 2024-08-28T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-08-28T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Philosophical Research Society

THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH – Folk Horror Epic presented by CINEMANCERS!

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Join us Cinemancers' inaugural screening feat. THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH,  world theatrical premiere of Restored Director's Cut!

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Cinemancers:THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH – Folk Horror EpicWorld Premiere of Restored Director’s Cut!Co-presented with Bibliomancers Join us for the inaugural screening by Cinemancers, Bibliomancers' new film club! "Working with our favorite place in Los Angeles- Philosophical Research Society," says Astraleyez of Bibliomancers press, "we will be presenting LIVE &amp; In-person screenings of rare and unique films – with a focus on fantasy, sci-fi, and surrealism –curated by Bibliomancers (@astraleyez &amp; @speedgallery666)" For their first screening, they will present the world premiere of the new director's cut restoration of Valeri Rubnichik's Russian folk horror classic THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH, with an introduction by horror scholar, author (House of Psychotic Women), and filmmaker (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) Kier-La Janisse! THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STAKH (DIKAYA OKHOTA KOROLYA STAKHA), 1980, Belarusfilm, 126 min. Dir. Valeri Rubinchik. “We have more ghosts than live people,” murmurs the pale, haunted mistress of the mansion of Marsh Firs (Elena Dimitrova) to a scholar of ancient folklore (Boris Plotnikov) who has arrived at her castle to research the bloody legend of King Stakh, a murdered 15th century nobleman whose spirit supposedly thunders through the local woodlands. (The Wild Hunt is a fixture of northern European folklore in which a sinister figure leads a chase followed by ghostly companions.) Part folk horror, part supernatural mystery, KING STAKH is a melancholy, chilling mixture of Terry Gilliam, Italian Gothic Horror, 1960s Hammer Films and THE WICKER MAN – and a major rediscovery for genre fans. The longer the young scholar stays in this mysterious house of “shadow, gloom, madness and death,” the more strange and surreal the imagery becomes: a mad widow in a white wig; a man bleeding spontaneously from his skull; a dwarf hiding in a decayed doll’s house; screeching ravens and maniacal puppet shows. Based on the novel by Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkievich, the long-unavailable KING STAKH has recently been restored from the original film elements in its extended 126 min. Director’s Cut by Deaf Crocodile and Seagull Films for its first-ever U.S. release. (In Russian with English subtitles.) – Film &amp; synopsis courtesy of Deaf Crocodile. ABOUT BIBLIOMANCERSBibliomancers is a small press created and owned by the Los Angeles based occult collage artist Astraleyes. Bibliomancy is the practice of divination through books by allowing a seemingly randomly chosen passage the seeker can apply its wisdom or symbolic meaning to provide guidance. Astraleyes has been collecting books using bibliomancy for almost 30 years. With his personal library bibliomancy practice, he has begun publishing collections from his extensive archive.Follow Astraleyes on <a href="https://instagram.com/astraleyez" title="https://instagram.com/astraleyez" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>Follow Bibliomancers on <a href="http://instagram.com/bibliomancers" title="http://instagram.com/bibliomancers" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a> ABOUT KIER-LA JANISSEKier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped &amp; Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She has mounted many site-specific screenings, activating film locations and showing films in a church, on a screen of snow, and with the audience in the water.She has shared her genre film expertise as a guest speaker in documentaries, classes, conferences and conventions across the globe. There is even a character named after her on Season 2 of Torchwood.<a href="https://www.kierlajanisse.com/" title="https://www.kierlajanisse.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Visit Kier-La Janisse's website</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kierlajanisse/" title="https://www.instagram.com/kierlajanisse/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Follow Kier-La Janisse on Instagram</a> Ticket Price: $10 (in-person event only).Please email events@prs.org or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.

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