Saturday (9/7) 21:00 Film4 Minority Report (2002) (also Thursday 21:00)
Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise team up for a sci-fi tale based on short story from legendary sci-fi writer Philip.K.Dick. Cruise plays a police officer in futuristic Washington D.C. whose department uses psychics called 'precogs', beings that can predict future crimes with remarkable accuracy, 'Precrime', for the cops to stop them before they occur. One day a vision emerges of Cruise himself committing a murder. He must race against time to correct the event stay ahead of the force hunting him. Spielberg uses his considerable skill and budget to build an entirely convincing world around the story. Roger Ebert called this smarter than average thriller one of his favourite films of 2002.
Tuesday (12/7) 23:00 Legend Hellraiser (1987)
Clive Barker's cult classic, this shocking body horror follows a family moving into a house occupied by a semi-human entity who has escaped the underworld. He lures human sacrifices to rebuild himself to escape the forces hunting him. There is a plot, and some memorable supernatural elements, but it is seemingly mostly about the visuals; with similarly graphic 1980s designs as accepted classics like The Fly, Poltergeist and The Thing. Unfortunately, yet predictably, many sub-par sequels followed, none of which were directed by Barker.
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