Beyond Chicago, the first festival offshoot of the popular Beyond Fest genre cinema showcase in Los Angeles, has announced the opening and closing night picks for its inaugural edition.
Curry Barker’s horror feature Obsession, which was picked up by Focus Features out of the Toronto Film Festival, will open Beyond Chicago, while Daniel Goldhaber’s remake of the 1973 Faces of Death classic will close the festival with a world premiere at the Music Box Theatre.
In all, 30 features of varying chaos and carnage will screen at the four-day Beyond Chicago event to run April 2 to 5. The inaugural program will include Bob Odenkirk hosting a Centerpiece Screening of Ben Wheatley’s Normal, while also being on hand for a screening of Joseph Sargent’s classic thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
And the rapper and music producer RZA is bringing his fourth feature film, the action revenge thriller One Spoon of Chocolate, to Beyond Chicago, which also booked a special 35mm screening of the Shaw Brothers classic The Kid With The Golden Arm, and big screen play for Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body, Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner, and stunt icon Kenji Tanigaki fightfest The Furious.
There’s also a world bow for the 4K Rrestoration of Warner Bros.’ 2008 classic Speed Racer, presented by co-director Lilly Wachowski, and Meiko Kaji will be at Beyond Chicago for restoration pic screenings of Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Lady Snowblood and Silver Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler.
There’s also a world premieres for Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta’s creature feature The Yeti.
