From underground and camp to B-movies and “so bad they’re actually good” films. In our CULT series, controversy is not avoided, censorship is playfully challenged, guilty pleasures are given a place, and nostalgia goes hand in hand with exploitation. Taboo-breaking for some and excessive for others, but one thing is certain: CULT leaves no one unmoved.

HIGHLIGHTS

In A USEFUL GHOST, a man wakes up in the middle of the night and hears his vacuum cleaner coughing. It’s the start of a highly original and witty cinematic experience with romantic, absurdist, and political undertones. After her death, Nat is reincarnated as a ghost inside a vacuum cleaner and returns to her husband, March. What brings him comfort is unacceptable to his conservative family: they fear ghosts and want to banish her from their world. However, when Nat clears their factory of ghosts and saves the company, she is accepted as a “useful” ghost.

POLICE STORY is an absolute action classic from Hong Kong cinema and perhaps the very film that definitively catapulted Jackie Chan to global stardom. Chan plays a police officer trying to take down a drug ring, but finds himself getting deeper and deeper into trouble — resulting in chaos, destruction, and life-threatening situations. The screening will be introduced by Xander De Rycke.

This June, two mysterious masked killers, one summer slasher double bill! We’re pairing the ultra-iconic SCREAM, which sparked the 90s slasher revival, with the underrated I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.