Sub-Culture present: Sub-Cinema @ Dada

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Sub-Culture presents Sub-Cinema, a bi-weekly screening of the weird and wonderful! Taking place every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, Sub-Cinema will bring you cult classics, B-Movie madness, independent cinema, music documentaries and just plain good films. Doors open at 7pm and screenings will commence at 9pm sharp, with music provided before and after by Sub-Culture selectors Drunk Monk and Deville. All films will be shown with Chinese sub-titles, or in Chinese language, whenever possible.

Tuesday 8th December - Phantasm (1979)

13 year old Mike Pearson had always thought that the Morningside cemetery was a little creepy, but when he witnesses a body being taken away from a grave by an undertaker, he decides to investigate. What he encounters in Morningside’s white-marbled halls is beyond anyone’s twisted imagination. Grisly murders, flying metal spheres with a penchant for blood, a horde of cloaked dwarf-like monsters, and the evil ‘Tall Man’.

Don Coscarelli’s 1979 cult-horror masterpiece walks the fine line between genius and madness. Originally rated X in the MPAA, LA Times film critic Charles Champlin made a telephone call in a favor to a friend on the board and the rating was changed from the (commercially non-viable) X-rating to Like a dream the flow is eratic and confusing, yet almost predictably satisfying, and like a nightmare, there is no explanation or attempt to pander to desires for a logical conclusion. Imaginative, bizarre and highly original, Phantasm has to be seen to be believed, and then seen again to even begin to be understood. One of the highlights of the year for Sub-Cinema!

‘'Boy, I have such sights to show you' – The Tall Man