After the excellent American Juvenile Delinquents night last month (3 films + free 'zine + mix CD!) Aorta Burst are back this month with a horror/comedy double bill of THE REFRIGERATOR & THE BIG MEAT EATER!

"Presented in collaboration with Berserker Magazine, Aorta Burst Film Club is back at the Roxy Bar and Screen with films fit for a chilly November evening. After our previous experiment in taking advantage of the Roxy's great facilities by whacking on some ropey old tapes was a success, the Burst is returning to the VHS well with two should be cult classics that conjure up beautiful memories of the days of video rental.

Opening our double bill is 1991's THE REFRIGERATOR, director Nicholas Jacobs' four year's in the making graduate film. When a young New York couple move into an improbably cheap apartment, the catch involves an unruly kitchen appliance that doubles up as a gateway to hell. Brimming with hallucinations, flashbacks, dream sequences, domicile violence and strange comedy, THE REFRIGERATOR gets maximum entertainment out of its setting.

Whatever audience a horror satire about a murderous fridge has, it deserves a bigger one.

How do you follow a kitchen massacre? With Canada's greatest sci-fi-horror-comedy-musical THE BIG MEAT EATER! Director Chris Windsor's only film, but if you were to only make one, it might as well be one containing a toy robot alien invasion force, a mild-mannered butcher with a new universal language, radioactive meat chemicals, home made rocket ships and dodgy new wave bands singing in a town hall. BIG MEAT EATER is a film that revels in its position out of the mainstream like no other, a totally unique low budget mixed-brow feature that goes so far out of its way to be odd you can't help but be captivated. The phenomenal musical numbers will have you dancing in rapture, as psychotic fez-donning butcher Abdullah (played by jazz musician "Big" Miller) sets off an erotic frenzy slapping steaks on the butcher's counter. He don't like no fruits, and no veggies too, and he don't give a damn about them that do!

So join us and bask in the warmth of these two rarely-screened VHS wonders that will confuse and delight in equal measures. As usual with the Burst, there will be zines full of new writing and illustrations about whatever takes our fancy for the first 50 people, a bit of a reminisce about the glory of VHS, and some kind of crazy intermission fun.

Kicking off at 7pm

and all for the low price of £3!"

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Filmbar70 is proud to celebrate the extraordinary life and works of exploitation cinema’s wildest maverick – the indomitable Jess Franco. We’ll be screening one of his finest films – the supremely sensuous ‘Venus in Furs’ and will explore his love of jazz with a special Filmbar presentation, ‘Club Franco’, where red drenched bodies writhe in unison to a psychedelic squall.

There’ll also be a free Filmbar booklet featuring an interview with Maria Rohm, the beautiful star of ‘Venus in Furs’ and, of course, El Diabolik will be on the decks, blistering the eardrums with aural Franco fried exotica. All this, and much more!

Starts 7pm

£4 tickets here or on the door.

Venus in Furs

When lost jazz trumpeter Jimmy wrests the ravished body of Wanda Reed from the ocean, he recalls the horrifying atrocity that took her life, an atrocity he was implicated in and has been running from since. Fleeing to Rio, he rebuilds his life, only for his temporary security to be torn asunder when Wanda inexplicably, impossibly re-appears. Helplessly drawn to this intoxicating apparition, he descends into a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of sex and death, as Wanda takes vengeance upon those who so cruelly extinguished her existence…

‘Venus in Furs’ has often been hailed as Franco’s masterpiece, and while this may be disputed by his ardent admirers, the film consolidates many of his obsessions. A sumptuously sensory delight, ‘Venus in Furs’ decedent visuals are heightened by a fantastic score by jazz-rockers Manfred Mann. Also on board for this wild ride, we find the notorious Klaus Kinski, Filmbar fave Margaret Lee, and Maria Rohm at the height of her brittle beauty.

A fusion of the morbid and the erotic, ‘Venus in Furs’ is the perfect entry point for those unversed in the vast oeuvre of Franco and the world of the Euro-erotic.

So join us on the 20th of June at the Roxy Bar and Screen for a delirious descent into the mind of cinema’s unique magician – Jess Franco.