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Directed by Susana Kapostasy | 76 minutes | 18+ | International Premiere |
10:30pm Saturday, 31 May | SV HQ Inside | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
HE RIPS WHERE YOU SOW
Writer/director Susana Kapostasy’s The Emasculator is a shot-on-video homage to rape revenge, vintage porno horror, and vigilante thrillers with a complicated self-awareness and extreme genital gore only dreamed of by the exploitation filmmakers of yore. Kapostasy gleefully mixes tones and genres to disconcerting, funny, crass, and ultimately melancholy ends. A movie for the true cinema sickos by a worthy heir to Roberta Findlay.
When an alcoholic ex-Army Ranger's daughter is assaulted on video by a group of small-time pornographers, he enlists the help of his cattle emasculator to get gruesome revenge. But things aren't quite that simple. They never are. A conspiracy that goes all the way to the top vs a man that’s fallen all the way to the bottom. Produced by microbudget icon Tim Ritter (Truth or Dare? A Critical Madness).
SIMILAR: Rolling Thunder, Blonde Death, Water Power, Man on Fire, A Woman’s Torment
WARNING: this film contains graphic sexual violence and uncensored clips from vintage hardcore pornography.
Screens with a pre-recorded interview with Susana Kapostasy.
“Content warning: great movie” - PD187, Letterboxd
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Language: English