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.
Mick arrives fresh and rested in Fly Creek, a small, unwelcoming Georgia town. He hopes to find his girlfriend Geri, who lives with her sister Alma and their mother, still traumatized by the death of her husband. Following a storm, the electrical installations in the area have been damaged. The broken wires transmit electricity to the depths of the earth, causing the emergence of voracious and deadly worms.
Jeff Lieberman
Jeff Lieberman is an American film director and screenwriter, known for his cult horror and thriller films Squirm (1976), Blue Sunshine (1978) and Just Before Dawn (1981). His film Blue Sunshine screened at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the London Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 1988, Lieberman wrote and directed Remote Control and subsequently wrote the screenplay for The NeverEnding Story III (1994). He later directed the satirical comedy horror film Satan's Little Helper (2004).
