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Jigoku
October 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS!
$5 General Admission
After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, Jigoku, with its truly eye-popping (and -gouging) imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema.
(Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan, Japanese w/ Eng. Sub, 101min, 1960, DVD)