I, Madman
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Virginia works in a bookshop specializing in antiquarian books and becomes fascinated by a horror novel entitled "Much of madness, more of sin". She manages to obtain the latest book by the author, Malcolm Brand, entitled "I, madman". The novel tells the macabre story of a lover rejected by his ugliness, who mutilates his own face in order to gradually reconstruct it. To her surprise, Virginia realizes that the mysterious murders of people around her seem to be inspired by events in the book.
Tibor Takács
Tibor Takács is a Hungarian-Canadian director. He was born on September 11, 1954 in Budapest, Hungary, but he grew up in Canada. He is noted for directing The Gate (1987) and its sequel, The Gate II: Trespassers (1990). His career has largely been associated with horror movies, though he has also directed many Christmas-themed films, often for the Hallmark Channel. He also directed the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch which became the basis for the TV series of the same name. He attended the University of Toronto, where he began to work in theater and directed several award-winning short films, which eventually led to commercial directing work. In the late 70's, Takács was involved with various Toronto-area punk and metal bands.Takacs collaborated with Canadian author and filmmaker Peter Vronsky during the 1970s and acted as a cinematographer and art director on some of his films. In 1978, he released his first feature-length film, the independently-produced sci-fi musical Metal Messiah, which featured numerous Toronto-based musicians, including members of Kickback and the Cardboard Brains.
