In 1976, artist and actor Andrey Iskanov was born in the climatically brutal Russian town of Khabarovsk, 20 miles north of the Chinese border. There he cut his teeth in the medical field, where his love of photography developed into an award-winning career in advertising and filmmaking. His fascination with the human body no doubt influenced the creation of HalluCinoGeNnN, a series of two of the most brain-bending pieces of psychedelic industrial horror to come from Russia’s Extreme East. This March, please join us for a mind-melting presentation of these two films: the cyberpunk freakout thriller NAILS and VISIONS OF SUFFERING, a truly soul-crushing exercise in pain and ecstasy. Only at Spectacle.
NAILS
(ГВОЗДИ)
Dir. Andrey Iskanov. 2003.
Russia. 62 min.
In Russian with English Subtitles.
MONDAY, MARCH 3 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 7 – MIDNIGHT
SUNDAY, MARCH 23 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 29 – MIDNIGHT
Experiencing increasingly agonizing headaches and frightening voices, an unnamed hitman turns to the only relief he hasn’t tried: hammering nine inch nails straight into his skull. His fresh trepanation colorizes his black and white Siberian world, causing vivid hallucinations – as well as torturous, waking nightmares. Fighting tooth and nail for his sanity, our hero soon learns that the only way out of Hell is through.
Iskanov’s directorial debut and the first in the HalluCinoGeNnN series, NAILS is one tight-n-tense cerebral hellride. THE MATRIX for edgy self-surgery enthusiasts or TETSUO THE IRON MAN with a lobotomy.
VISIONS OF SUFFERING (FINAL DIRECTOR’S CUT)
(ГВИДЕНИЯ УЖАСОВ)
Dir. Andrey Iskanov. 2006.
Russia. 85 min.
In Russian with English Subtitles.
SATURDAY, MARCH 8 – MIDNIGHT
THURSDAY, MARCH 13 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 29 – MIDNIGHT
A man experiencing disturbing phone calls receives a visit from a Don Quixote quoting telephone repairman. His arrival shatters the barrier between reality and nightmare – unleashing a series of vampires, succubi, and demonic forces into existence.
Film II in the HalluCinoGeNnN Series, VISIONS OF SUFFERING is the experimental art horror equivalent of becoming the victim of a gas leak while also becoming a victim of fashion inside an abandoned Hot Topic. Originally released as a 2-hour cut in 2006 and reconstituted in 2016, Iskanov’s FINAL DIRECTOR’S CUT boosts the Ick Factor into the stratosphere while completely reimagining Hell on Earth altogether. Don’t eat beforehand.
WARNING: GRAPHIC SCENES OF UNSIMULATED SEX, VIOLENCE, AND CADAVERS THROUGHOUT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!