Thu, Sept 22 / 9:30pm
Fri, Sept 23 / 9:15pm
Sat, Sept 24 / 9:30pm
Sun, Sept 25 / 7:15pm
Dir. Grzegorz Warchol
1986, Poland, 90 min
Polish with English subtitles
Directed and co-written by Grzegorz Warchol – the Polish actor best known for his performance in Three Colors: White – this 1986 Perspektywa Film Group production combines splashes of absurdist black comedy with jolts of old-school gothic horror for a slyly contemporary take on the female bloodsucker mythos. Katarzyna Walter stars as a happily single young vampire who works in her aunt’s curio shop when not feeding on various suitors and sleazebags. But when she falls for a handsome psychiatrist, she’ll discover that no affliction is more horrific than love. Co-scripted by feminist writer/activist Krystyna Kofta and featuring poet, songwriter and cabaret icon Jonasz Kofta in his sole film role, I Like Bats is now scanned in 2K from the only 35mm print known to exist.
Courtesy of Severin Films.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary and the latest expanded edition of Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, Cinematheque presents a series of films exploring crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness and apocalyptic hysteria.
Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 and William F. White International.
