A Cinematic Collection that Makes You Say “What The… Film!”

Welcome to WTF, Showroom's new monthly screening strand celebrating the films that make you shout "What The F...ilm"!?

Join us every month for a screening celebrating the international and indie films that leave minds blown and jaws dropped. You can expect some of the most beloved cult films, underseen gems and wonderfully weird cinema.

This is a place for film fans and newbies alike to come together and experience everything that cinema has to offer.

Launching the new strand on Thursday 23 April is one of the most iconic and divisive cult films of all time, Oldboy. Directed with immense flair by Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden) as the second instalment of his Vengeance Trilogy, Oldboy blazed a trail at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it was lauded by the President of the Jury, director Quentin Tarantino.

Based on the Japanese manga of the same name, the film tells the horrific tale of Oh Dae-su, a businessman who is inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned in a grim hotel room-like cell for 15 years, without knowing his captor or the reason for his incarceration. Eventually released, he learns of his wife's murder and embarks on a quest for revenge whilst also striking up a romance with a young, attractive sushi chef, Mi-do. He eventually finds his tormentor, but their final encounter will yield yet more unimaginable horrors...

A month later, we present an entirely different type of cult film from director Anna Biller, The Love Witch. Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims.

In June, erotic thriller Crimes of Passion screens on newly restored 16mm film, one of the only opportunities in the city to see film projected this way. From director Ken Russell, it stars Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins.

Screening in advance of the release of Jane Schoenbrun's new film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, we present I Saw The TV Glow as the WTF film for July.

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack. 

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