The Twitch-curated Attack The Bloc series of Cold War era science fiction films from the Eastern Bloc continues Friday with a 9:30 pm screening of Czech oddity Ferat Vampire at the Tiff Bell Lightbox.Ambulance medic Dr. Marek (Jirí Menzel, director of the classic Closely Watched Trains) is shocked and dismayed when his beloved nurse and driver Mima (Dagmar Veskrnová) is lured away to become a rally-car driver for car manufacturer Ferat. He's even more shocked (and rightly!) when a fellow doctor tells him that Ferat's much-hyped new sports car is fuelled by the blood of its driver, and becomes determined to free Mima from the clutches of the evil corporation. Brilliant and prolific Slovak director Juraj Herz -- whose darkly funny and supremely creepy...
- 1/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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