Modern silent horror film opens Friday at the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex
PROMETHEUS TRIUMPHANT: A FUGUE IN THE KEY OF FLESH is an intriguing looking modern day silent horror film opening Friday, January, 23rd at the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex.
The filmmakers will participate in Q&A’s after the 9:10 screenings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 23rd, 24th and 25th. Q&A’s will be moderated by film critic Gregory Weinkauf.
In emulation of silent gothic classics like Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Prometheus Triumphant: a Fugue in the Key of Flesh presents a revolutionary step backwards into film history. Using today’s most sophisticated digital filmmaking technology, directors Jim Towns and Mike McKown have seamlessly re-created a period of film long lost; where ghoulish figures lurked across broken vistas in sumptuous black and white and Guignol-esque tales were told with but a look and a gesture (and an occasional title card). When his small hamlet of Birzirkenstadt is ravaged by a deadly plague, the young and rebellious Doctor Janick reveals a radical cure. But his revolutionary theories about life and death label him a heretic and he is rewarded with banishment. As Janick disappears into the wild his secret love Esmeralda succumbs to the deadly disease, the superstitious doctor is helpless to cure her. Enter a mysterious masked figure known only as the Creator who snatches Esmeralda’s body from its grave and begins to conduct weird experiments; their object: to bring her back from death’s cold embrace.
