After lying dormant for two years, Rupture returns with a vengeance this June. And our annual showcase of genre cinema is ready to make up for lost time.
Having packed our Vancity Theatre with In Fabric and The Art of Self-Defense back in 2019, Peter Strickland and Riley Stearns return to the lineup with new films that could’ve only been envisioned by their particularly skewed sensibilities. But there’s also an array of work from exciting new talents, including Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Nyla Innuksuk’s Slash/Back, and Avalon Fast’s Cortes Island-shot Honeycomb. For good measure (and added outrageousness), we’ve included a restoration of Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction and a sidebar of four Cronenberg classics.
To borrow a line from David Lynch, Rupture is wild at heart and weird on top. Who wants to go for a ride?
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Slash/Back
Sleepy Pangnirtung, Nunavut transforms into a battleground when Inuit teens confront shapeshifting alien invaders. Drawing from Hollywood classics and traditional Inuit stories, Slash/Back boasts a warrior spirit that's as endearing as it is indomitable.
Flux Gourmet
Peter Strickland returns with this drolly deranged and outrageously debauched tale of a "sonic catering" collective looking to refine their performance art while coping with their own disfunction and the machinations of their duplicitous benefactor.
The Addiction
As the mid-90s "Disneyfication" of New York City takes root, a morbid grad student is bitten by a vampire seductress and must navigate the shadows while tempering her growing addiction to blood. A mash-up of Godard, Bram Stoker, and East Coast hip-hop.
Videodrome
In Cronenberg's witty paranoia fantasy about viral image contamination circa 1983, James Woods and Debbie Harry are sucked into a web of intrigue by a snuff satellite show. All Hail the New Flesh!
Dead Ringers
Cronenberg's devastating psychological drama about identical twins (Jeremy Irons), gynecologists who share everything – until one of them falls in love.
Resurrection
Rebecca Hall is mesmerising as Margaret, an executive and single mom who psychologically unravels when a malevolent figure from her past (Tim Roth) returns to torment her. This tilt-a-whirl of terror is every bit as disorienting as Hall is devastating.
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Teenage Casey ventures into an online role-playing game purported to spark supernatural transformations. But are the ensuing symptoms simply the fantasies of an alienated young woman who desperately wants to be part of something beyond her comprehension?
Babysitter
When a misogynist is suspended from work and stuck at home with his wife and infant daughter, he cajoles his brother into cowriting a memoir that will prove his feminist credentials. But then a new babysitter blows into town and bewitches them all.
