DUMPLINGS (Fruit Chan, 2004) (Magdalen Auditorium, 7:30pm Monday 30th Oct)

Opening our horror theme night is this gruesome tale from Chinese director Fruit Chan. It tells of an ex-starlet's quest for youth and beauty. After learning of a mysterious chef whose dumplings seemingly offer all she has been seeking, she manages to track her down, with the hope of obtaining this fountain of youth. But what is her secret recipe, and at what cost has it been obtained? An inspiring tale of hope and redemption this is not, enjoy…

Anton Baker (Magdalen Film Soc President)

REPULSION (Roman Polanski, 1965) (Magdalen Auditorium, 9:20pm Monday 30th Oct)

Roman Polanski's 1965 classic insanity-fest is an absolute must for anyone with even the slightest masochistic tendency—or anyone that really likes a good ol' fashioned creep-out. Catherine Deneuve plays a young woman who, for understandable reasons, thinks that men are manipulative, aggressive sexual fiends. When her sister goes out of town and leaves her home alone, she slowly goes insane in an escalating cacophony of hallucinations and nightmares about seduction and rape. Yet, are they only in her mind? Either way, this is a hauntingly gruesome tour-de-force from one of the greatest directors ever, whose mastery of this genre (also including "Rosemary's Baby") was surpassed only by the horror of his own real life, realized when Charles Manson et al decided to crash the dinner party of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate.

Hunter Vaughan (Magdalen Film Soc Committee)