The Howling
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.
After being stalked by a serial killer, a journalist stays in a small community to rest. She soon discovers that the villagers are all hiding a strange secret.
Joe Dante
Joe Dante is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and critic. Like many American filmmakers of his generation, he was trained at New World Pictures, a studio founded by Roger Corman in 1970. He gained recognition with Piranha (1978) and The Howling (1981), both horror films with a parodic or tragic tone, before achieving mainstream success with Gremlins (1984). Despite this, he was gradually sidelined by Hollywood studios due to his originality and irreverent tone. He then directed a few independent films, but devoted most of his time to television.
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