I'll start the day off with a newly restored version of director Kinji Fukasaku's 1973 yakuza classic, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, which debuted at Cannes this year. This trailer doesn't have English subtitles but it's a fun watch nevertheless.
The crime wave continues with Swedish caper film The Master Plan. BiFan's website description is, "When the uncle of mastermind Charles Ingvar-Johnson gets murdered, [Charles] brings together a league consisting of Sweden's best impostor, an explosives expert, and a burglary specialist to finalize his plan for revenge and perform a complicated heist."
New Zealand/Canada coproduction Turbo Kid looks absolutely nuts! Set in a postapocalyptic 1997, this film looks to combine Mad Max-style visuals with comic book elements and more than a little humor. I have high hopes for this one!
There's an embarrassment of riches for my fourth Saturday slot; I'm still working on putting some puzzle pieces in place so that I can eventually see all of the following three films during my BiFan visit. The contenders follow.
Tales from the Dark #1 is a Hong Kong portmanteau horror film directed by Simon Yam --- who will make special guest appearance at the festival --- Lee Chi-ngai, and Fruit Chan. The emphasis here is on ghosts, and all three tales are based on short stories written by Lilian Lee.
The UK psychological mystery drama The Falling concerns an epidemic of fainting spells at a girls' school in 1969.
French horror offering Horsehead looks to be chock full of surreal imagery as a young girl experiments with lucid dreaming in the bedroom next to her dying grandmother.
Saturday finishes with one of my most anticipated films, American creature feature Harbinger Down, starring Lance Henriksen. According to the filmmakers, this fan-funded production pays homage to Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing using only practical effects for the creatures. I had a blast watching Blood Glacier at BiFan last year, and as a lifelong monster kid, I can't wait to see this one on the big screen.
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