International Studies Horror Filmfest

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When

Friday, October 31, 2025 from 10:00 AM - 3:50 PM

Where
Hatcher Gallery Event Space
Hatcher Library North, First Floor, Room 100
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Event typeFilm Screening

It’s our annual Halloween spectacular, where we screen frightening foreign-language movies from around the world! Drop by the Hatcher Gallery (just off the Diag) for one or all of these free movies. All films are subtitled in English. Please check the schedule before arrival, as movie times may shift.

These movies may contain violent content, disturbing imagery, and sexual situations which may be too intense for some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

10:00 a.m. — Tetsuo the Iron Man  — Japan
1989, 1 hr. 7 min.
A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.

11:25 a.m. — Bacurau — Brazil
2019, 2 hrs. 11 min.
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.

1:45 p.m. — Possession — UK & Germany
1981, 2 hrs. 4 min.
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

 

Movie descriptions are from IMDb.

Slices of DVD covers from Tetsuo the Iron Man, Bacurau, and Possession.

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