Here are all of the new films coming to Kino Film Collection in October.
Premiering on October 3
The Invisible Fight
Rainer Sarnet, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, 2023
A young soldier stationed at the USSR-China border becomes obsessed with kung fu and seeks martial arts teachers at the most unlikely of places: the local Eastern Orthodox monastery. With a skeptical mother, a rival monk, and a budding love interest pulling him in different directions, his road is long, winding, and full of kick-ass adventures.
Cosmos
Andrzej Zulawski, France, Portugal, 2015
Andrzej Zulawski's final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel into an ominous and manic exploration of desire. Witold, who has just failed the bar, stays at a guesthouse run by Madame Woytis, where reality mutates into a whirlwind of foreboding omens and surrealistic logic as he becomes obsessed with her daughter.
Premiering on October 10
Requiem for a Vampire
Jean Rollin, France, 1973
A favorite of his cult horror films, Jean Rollin’s “Requiem for a Vampire” chases two girls on the run as they get lost in the French countryside. Eluding their pursuers, the two girls dress as clowns and continue their flight on foot as they journey to a cemetery and a haunted chateau inhabited by vampires.
The Nude Vampire
Jean Rollin, France, 1970
A surreal blend of horror, espionage, and erotica, Jean Rollin’s “The Nude Vampire” follows the son of a wealthy businessman as he is lured into a secret cult conducting experiments on a mute vampire woman. It is love at first sight and Pierre determines to liberate his beloved, a goal which attracts other vampires, who plan a torch-carrying siege of his father's palatial compound.
Premiering on October 17
Frightmare
Pete Walker, UK, 1974
Pete Walker's “Frightmare” has achieved almost legendary status in British horror history due to its initial condemnation in the 1970s. Sheila Keith stars as a former patient of a mental institution, who has settled down in a remote farmhouse, where she tells fortunes in her spare time. But the kind, maternal exterior conceals a dreadful monster that the asylum was unable to cure.
Schizo
Pete Walker, UK, 1976
In this classic '70s slasher film (British filmmaker Pete Walker's answer to Hitchcock's "Psycho"), Lynne Frederick stars as a beautiful ice skater who has witnessed the gruesome murder of her mother as a child. After she marries, her close friends start to get killed one by one, and she is brought closer to an inevitable confrontation with the murderer.
Premiering on October 24
Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Jess Franco, France, 1972
With “The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein” Jess Franco merges his fondness for old-school horror with his unique and perverse tastes in sex and violence. After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his monster and the radical technology that created him: the scientist's daughter, and an immortal wizard assisted by a blind bird-woman with an unquenchable thirst for blood.
The Golem
Paul Wegener, Germany, 1920
Recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, an ancient Hebrew legend provides the substance for one of the most adventurous films of early German cinema and a landmark in the evolution of the horror film. Suffering under the tyrannical rule of a merciless despot, a 16th century Talmudic rabbi creates a giant clay warrior that comes to life in a grand scale climax.