The 10th annual Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) kicks off on April 25th and BUFF is pleased to be a Presenting Partner of this year’s After Dark Program!
V/H/S

Friday APRIL 27th // 10:15pm // Brattle Theatre // Tickets
115mins // directed by:David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, and Adam Wingard // featuring:Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes and Adam Wingard
V/H/S has managed to stuff enough snuff and scares onto one tape to take you back to that wonderful time in horror when you never really knew what you were getting yourself into before pushing “play.”
David Bruckner (THE SIGNAL) sends us out for the night with three college bros who hope not only to score chicks, but to capture the coital conquests on hidden camera. They manage to pull some prime talent back to their motel room, but they may have bitten off more than they can chew. Ti West (THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL) takes us on a second honeymoon, but the couple’s romantic desert road trip takes a horrifically wrong turn. Glenn McQuaid (I SELL THE DEAD) drives us to a lake in the woods with a group of college kids who seem to have forgotten that the serene setting was recently the scene of grisly murders. Ghost stories from Joe Swanberg (HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, IFFBoston 2007) and the video collective Radio Silence continue raising the bloody bar, making PARANORMAL ACTIVITY look like an episode of Casper the Friendly Ghost.
V/H/S is a Frankenstein’s monster of a film, equal parts intelligence and extreme gore, stitched together by some of the finest frighteners in the business. —Mark Anastasio
Beyond the Black Rainbow

Saturday APRIL 28th // 11:30pm // Brattle Theatre // Trailer // Tickets
110mins // directed by:Panos Cosmatos // featuring:Michael Rogers, Eva Allan and Scott Hylands
The year is 1983. A young woman, Elena, is being held hostage in a high-tech facility created by Dr. Mercurio Arboria, a scientist who researches methods of spiritual enlightenment. His protégé, Dr. Barry Nyle, observes his prisoner with pleasure. Elena’s psychic powers are being controlled by heavy sedation and a mysterious, glowing white pyramid. When not scheming to control Elena, Drs. Nyle and Arborio do drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.
Watching BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW, you may begin to feel like you’ve discovered a vintage sci-fi B movie from the early ’80s. Maybe you will even experience a vague, unsettling memory of having seen it on Night Flight as a teenager, having dozed off only to enter its dreamy atmosphere when you inadvertently awoke at 3 a.m. BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW is not, in fact, a vintage film, but it so perfectly captures the creepy weirdness of the low-budget works from the period it depicts that it could easily be mistaken for one. Director Panos Cosmatos pays homage to dozens of sci-fi greats, from Cronenberg to Kubrick to Carpenter. But with its dazzling, hallucinogenic imagery and hypnotic soundscape, Cosmatos’s film is a unique cinematic experience all its own. —Kristina Aikens






The Boston Underground Film Festival kicks off its fourteenth year this Thursday, March 29th at the Brattle Theatre!
Brace yourself for Thursday’s Opening Night film, 

