31.10.25, 20:30, Night of the Horror: Video Nasties

Who doesn't remember, as a youngster in the video store, the forbidden glances at the evocative covers of grubby horror films? Okay, maybe no one after the millennials, but KASKcinema and the Ghent cult collective Kuru are reviving this rite of passage with a night of unbridled video entertainment exclusively on dirty VHS. Night of the Horror dusts off the video recorder for three questionable classics in equally questionable circumstances. Forget the cinephile's swooning over the imperfect grain of film, this triple bill is guaranteed to make even the most casual video fetishist blush. Vintage has never felt so dirty.

• 20:30 | Pet Sematary (Mary Lambert, 1989, USA, 103', English spoken, Dutch subtitles)
  No family drama is greater than burying beloved pets... in an old Native American burial ground. That's what happens to the Creed family in Pet Sematary when their cat is accidentally run over. After directing music videos for Madonna, director Mary Lambert scored an unexpected box office hit with this supernatural Stephen King adaptation. The title track by the Ramones became one of their biggest hits!
• 10:30 p.m. | Xtro (Harry Bromley Davenport, 1983, UK, 86’, English spoken, no subtitles)
  A father who was abducted by a mysterious light hopes to be reunited with his wife and child. A year after E.T. and The Thing, the world was introduced, willingly or not, to the extraterrestrial cross-pollination of Xtro, born from the dustbin of paranormal sci-fi horror. Full of distasteful ideas and pregnant with slimy special effects, Xtro ended up on the infamous list of so-called ‘video nasties’ in 1980s Britain.
• 00:15 | Intensive Care (Dorna van Rouveroy, 1991, Netherlands, 91, Dutch spoken, no subtitles)
  In this slasher film from our northern neighbours, a famous surgeon is horribly mutilated in a car accident. He wakes up from a coma seven years later on New Year's Eve and, for unexplained reasons, starts killing people. Intensive Care is 1990s Dutch horror that everyone is trying to forget. And by everyone, we mean especially teen idol Koen Wauters in his only major film role. Keep your bandages handy, because this is going to hurt.

Tickets are available per screening (€4 / €8). True horror fans will of course buy a Triple Bill pass (€10 / €20).