CHARON / THE JAR
dir. Bruce Toscano, 1984
USA. 88 min.
In English.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – MIDNIGHT
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 – 10PM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 10PM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 – 10PM
THE JAR … it blows the lid off of terror!
A Motorist who comes upon an auto accident finds a bottle at the scene. The bottle contains a demon who proceeds to possess him.
For years only available in a terribly degraded and cropped pan-and-scan edit that made the visuals near indecipherable, THE JAR was regarded (if at all) as a complete failure, an artifact reserved for MST3K-riffing and not much else.
Thanks to a new remaster from TerrorVision, THE JAR can finally be seen for the unnerving art-house horror freakout it is, more than deserving of its own cult following. Despite its budgetary limitations, it manages to pull off a uniquely dreamlike and unsettling tone, falling somewhere between ERASERHEAD and JACOB’S LADDER.