STREAMING PREMIERES
APRIL 2019
Friday, April 12
PREMIERE
A STRAY GOAT
In this heart-wrenching drama starring GOT7’s Jinyoung, a new kid in a rural high school befriends a girl who’s relentlessly bullied because of her father-who has been accused of murder-when the two bond over raising a stray goat they discovered. (2017, 120 minutes).
PREMIERE
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Fresh out of prison and on a mission to get his old life back, a once-high-rolling gambler (Aaron Kwok) falls for a prostitute on a twisted misadventure through Bangkok’s underbelly in this striking neo-noir romance. (2015, 90 minutes)
Friday, April 19
This harrowing Cannes drama was Singapore’s Oscar submission for best Foreign Film, a complex human drama that follows a correctional officer as he learns the ropes of execution–from the man who killed his own father. Far from being a conventional prison movie, this slow-burning psychological thriller is a “stunning” (Film School Rejects) and “tightly focused and ambitious” (Screen Daily) look at all the lives affected by capital punishment. (2016, 115 minutes)
This offbeat tragicomedy and festival favorite that premiered at SXSW follows a rundown rural karaoke bar and its suicidal owner as he and his staff of misfit employees attempts to bring in cash and customers through increasingly questionable means. Lee Mun-sik, Bae, So-eun and Kim Na-mi star. (2016, 106 minutes)
Friday, April 26
PREMIERE
ONE STEP
K-pop songstress Sandara Park plays a woman who awakens from an accident missing all her memories–and a bad case of synesthesia, wherein she sees sounds as colors to the point where listening to music is unbearable. But could the melody that haunts her be the key to unlocking her past? (2017, 87 minutes)
Friday, April 12
PREMIERE
MICROWAVE MASSACRE
In this twisted ’80s cult classic, a man kills his wife and disposes of the body as economically as possible–by heating her up in the microwave and enjoying her flesh as a TV dinner. But now he’s acquired a taste for human flesh one serving can’t satisfy. (1983, 76 minutes)
Friday, April 19
PREMIERES
THE CRAZIES + SEASON OF THE WITCH:
A CELEBRATION OF GEORGE ROMERO
When iconic Master or Horror George Romero passed away in 2017, the filmmaking community lost a legend. From introducing zombies to the silver screen with 1968’s Night of the Living Dead and his popular undead sequels to his cult classics such as Knightriders and Creepshow, the Godfather of the Dead was revered for his fantastical, gruesome and satirical P.O.V. To commemorate Romero’s groundbreaking and inimitable career, Midnight Pulp is proud to stream two of his early classics: SEASON OF THE WITCH and THE CRAZIES.
SEASON OF THE WITCH
In 1972, Romero followed up his undead masterpiece, with his most “unclassifiable” and “thought-provoking” following a upper-crust housewife who turns to the Dark Arts to shake up her suburban monotony. Remade in 2011 with Nicholas Cage, the original starred Jan White, Bill Thunhurst and Romero regular Raymond Laine. (130 minutes)
THE CRAZIES
Romero combineed conspiracy theories with real-life horror in 1973’s THE CRAZIES, wherein the government tries to contain a virus accidentally spread by the military in a small Pennsylvania–only to become victims of the victims themselves. TV Guide called it “a nightmarish expose of government omnipotence and paranoia… one of Romero’s most underrated efforts”. (103 minutes)
Friday, April 19
PREMIERE
DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT
Luciano Giraldo’s giallo masterpiece, second in the Death Walks series, tells the tale of a model who witnesses a brutal murder. When the police discount her story, she decides solve the crime herself. Legendary director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence) was credited with the story. (1972, 102 minutes)
Friday, April 26
PREMIERE
THE SLAYER
For years slasher fans were desperate to get their hands on a copy of The Slayer, an elusive but beloved paragon of the genre. Now, this HD restoration of the tale of an island paradise-turned-bloody-nightmare is available to stream right here on Midnight Pulp. (1982, 80 minutes)
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