Re-Wind (Celluoid Nightmares)
Midnight weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights, so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Hisayasu Satô Run Time: 64 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 1988 Language: in Japanese w/ English subtitles
Starring: Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyomi Itō, Reika Kazami, Rino Shimazaki, Sayaka Hitomi
Presented by Oscarbate // Introduction by film historian Liz Purchell!
Re-Wind (aka Celluloid Nightmares) functions as Satô’s tribute to Michael Powell’s masterpiece Peeping Tom. After a grisly, point-of-view snuff videotape is found in a refrigerator, a young man becomes obsessed with discovering who made it and whether or not the brutal murder was real. As he delves into Tokyo’s underground video scene, his own perversions come to the fore as he grows ever closer to uncovering the shocking truth, alongside a female reporter who calls herself Crime Hunter.
Fusing gruesome gore and raw sex while wryly playing with the artifice inherent to the video format, Re-Wind remains one of Satô’s most powerful and impressive early works.