This week’s Friday Night Film pick is a slice of modern-day grindhouse cinema with Joe Begos’s blood-soaked, drug-fuelled horror film BLISS.
Heavily influenced by the sleazy early career exploitation films of Abel Ferrara, with particular nods to Driller Killer and The Addiction, Bliss is stripped-back genre fare set in the scuzzy underworld of Los Angeles.
Struggling artist Dezzy turns to a new hallucinogenic drug for artistic inspiration but her life descends into chaos when insatiable cravings take over. Shot on 16mm with a grunge aesthetic and indulgent levels of gore - Bliss is an unhinged, sensory trip.
Friday Night Film - BLISS
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Friday Night Film - VIOLENT COP
Back in 1989, a legendary filmmaking career was born when renowned television personality and eccentric comedian Takeshi Kitano went behind the camera for the first time with his explosive Yakuza thriller VIOLENT COP.
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Friday Night Film - THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS
THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS opens with the disturbing image of a distressed man pointing a gun at his wife and her lover as they lay asleep. He doesn’t follow through with the act but the threat of violence permeates through writer-director Richard Machioan’s bleak, tension-filled indie thriller.