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Society (1989)

Exclusive Screening Of Cult Horror Classic 'Society' Followed By Q&A With Director/Producer Brian Yuzna - 23 May 2013

The Cine Excess International Film Festival and the University of Brighton’s Faculty of Arts are delighted to welcome myth-making director/producer Brian Yuzna to the UK, where he will present a special screening of his cult film classic Society, as well as to give a career talk to film students studying at the University’s Hastings Campus.

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The Bunny Game (2010)

Subverting the Senses 

The special launch issue of the Cine-Excess eJournal will be edited by Mikita Brottman and John Mercer, and focuses on the theme of the controversial cult image in its political, historical and aesthetic contexts. 

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Digital Futures 

Cine-Excess is set to become one of the cornerstones of the new BA (Hons) Digital Film degree that the University of Brighton will be launching in 2013. This new cutting edge course combines current developments within film technology and industry practices alongside key film theory debates. The degree will be taught by academics and leading industry figures, and will showcase course developments at events such as the annual Cine-Excess film festival.

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Cine-Excess VI

Cine-Excess IV  Highlights 

Cine-Excess hosted visits by acclaimed action director and Tarantino influence Enzo G. Castellari and iconic Euro-cult auteur Sergio Martino both of whose work frequently trade on themes and national traditions of cult adaption.

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Blood and Bones on the Beach!

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From October 2012, Cine-Excess is delighted to announce that it will be moving to Brighton, where it will join the established Cine-City International Film Festival as an event supported and promoted by the University of Brighton. Here, the Cine-Excess International Film Festival and DVD label activities will join a new Cine-Excess Presents feature film development arm as resources to underpin the BA Honours degree in Digital Film that the University of Brighton will be launching in October 2013.

Cine-Excess VII will take place in October 2013, with a variety of partners adding to the event’s distinctive mix of global film-maker awards, retrospectives and premieres of new cult film releases.

Ahead of next year’s annual event, Cine-Excess presented the UK Premiere of Kim Henkel’s new splatter flick Boneboys at this year’s Cine-City Film Festival on Saturday 24th November.

In 1974, Henkel wrote one of the most notorious and influential horror movies of all time: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The film thrilled and disturbed audiences and launched the careers of Henkel and his directing colleague Tobe Hooper. Now Henkel returns to the theme of American society feeding off itself with his new chiller. 

Directed by Austin based film-makers Duane Graves and Justin Meeks, Henkel’s new script fuses Jonathan Swift’s tale ‘A Modest Proposal’ with a Southern cannibalistic elite operating from a meat-feast diner. With its surreal and unsettling imagery, the film pushes The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s absurdist and gruesome narrative to the limit, as well as providing a wealth of cult cameos from iconic ‘chainsaw’ performers.