The screening on 31 October will be video introduced by East Asian genre cinema expert James Mudge.
Also presented as part of our Halloween season. Chen Kuo-fu’s Double Vision is a landmark in Taiwanese horror, paving the way for later genre films rooted in local folklore and religious traditions. An ambitious international production backed by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, it became a major box-office success in Taiwan and was selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.
In Taipei, disgraced detective Huang Huo-tu joins forces with FBI agent Kevin Richter to investigate a series of inexplicable deaths. As clues lead from a murder in a Christian church to hallucinogenic fungus and a mysterious Taoist cult, their investigation descends into a disturbing world where forensic reason collides with ancient beliefs, and the boundary between serial murder and the supernatural begins to dissolve...
