Don't Look Now - films to scare you silly

Why do we love to watch scary scenes on the big screen? An anthology of the mechanisms behind "delicious" horror, with lots of film clips from various genres.

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Date and time Saturday 16 January 2016 20:00 tot 21:10 uur
Location Filmhuis - zaal 1

An anthology of the mechanisms behind "delicious" horror. Presenter and film conoisseur Gerlinda Heywegen leads you through the depths of cinematic hell via clips from various genres. Whether that hell is called Wall Street or Mordor, or whether the horror lurks in a shark or in an (almost) invisible monster, why do we love to watch scary scenes on the big screen? Even when we're reduced to peeping between our fingers? How do directors manage to make us quake in our seats?

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Gerlinda Heywegen

(1968) is a programmer, writer, organizer, lecturer and podcaster, mainly on the subject of film and often in combination with literature. Koning Film is the collective of speakers on film that she established. Heywegen's books include The Other Director, about directors of photography; she collaborated with Frans Westra on Passie voor Cinema (Passion for Cinema), which highlights four decades of film screenings in the Netherlands; and she edited and wrote for the film magazine Skrien. Currently, she writes regularly for the websites of the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers and literary magazine Elders.
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