Portland premier & Festival Opener
Friday, Oct 28 - 7:00
Written & Directed by Nyla Innuksuk
In Pangnirtung, Canada, just 31 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it’s just a typical summer day - no school, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her friends, everything changes when they discover an alien invasion threatening their small village. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives, but using makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge, they fight to show the aliens that you don't mess with the girls from Pang.
We used the studio blurb because this is the Portland premier, which means we haven’t seen it yet either. We just know that it looks cool, and pretty much everyone who’s seen it loves it.
Full schedule
Friday, Oct 28 - 7:00
Saturday, Oct 29 - 7:00
Thursday, Nov 3 - 8:45
Sunday, Oct 30 - 3:00
Provoke Shorts
Featuring a Q&A with Baby Fever director Hannah May Cumming
TIckets $5
Written and Directed by
Ida Lupino
1953
Wednesday, Nov 1 - 7:00
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Ida Lupino directed many boundary pushing films, and often tackled lurid subject matter her contemporaries wouldn’t touch. The Hitch-Hiker is a sun-drenched thriller about two men held captive by murderer, who hopes they can cover his escape across the southern border. Lupino’s film is built on nothing more than stark scenery and great performances, but it’s proof that a 70-year-old movie can still have teeth.
Written and Directed By
Coralie Fargeat
2017
Sunday, Oct 30 - 7:00
Wednesday, Nov 2 - 8:45
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Revenge has the trappings of a grindhouse rape-revenge film, but Coralie Fargeat has a lot more on her mind than that. The film simultaneously usurps and embraces those tired tropes, ultimately delivering a message that Fargeat makes certain you won’t miss.
The end result is a harrowing, bloody, and aggressively feminist horror-thriller.
Written and Directed By
Jackie Kong
1981
Friday, Oct 28 - 9:00
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Anyone who saw Blood Diner at last year’s Provoke knows that Jackie Kong doesn’t fuck around. The Being is an unrepentant creature feature filled with all the blood, guts, and bizarre directorial choices you’d expect from a Kong film.
Written and Directed By
Rose Glass
2021
Sunday, Oct 30 - 9:30
Tueday, Nov 1 - 7:00
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Saint Maud juggles a seemingly impossible number of ideas without becoming overburdened, despite its tight run time. Writer/director Glass uses horror, both psychological and physical, as a framework to explore ideas of faith, madness, redemption, and more.
Saint Maud had the ill fortune of being released early in the pandemic, so it garnered far less attention than it deserved. Here’s hoping this gets the film onto a few more people’s radar.
Directed By Mary Lambert
1989
Saturday, Oct 29 - 4:40
MOnday, Oct 31 - 8:30
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Pet Sematary is a killer slice of unrepentant late 80’s horror. Mary Lambert goes big in every scene, and lays the dread on thick. It all could have been too much, but the cast keeps things grounded with surprisingly solid performances.
Besides, it’s not like we’re the kind of place that thinks “too much” is a problem. Hit or miss, we love it when movies take big swings, and Pet Sematary does just that.
Directed By Danishka Esterhazy
2019
Sunday, Oct 30 - 5:00
Tuesday, Nov 1 - 9:00
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Someone had the idea to make a hard-R horror movie where the 1960’s Hannah Barbera characters known as “The Banana Splits” went on an animatronic killing spree. Then, somehow, whoever owned the characters allowed it.
At some point director Danishka Esterhazy (Slumber Party Massacre remake) signed on to direct, and proved that she’s got a real knack for making great films out of ideas that really shouldn’t work.
Written & Directed by
Julia Docournau
2016
Saturday, Oct 29 - 9:00
Thursday, Nov 3 - 6:30
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On her first solo outing, Juia Docournau made one of the best horror films of all time. Raw is a sweet, caring, erotic, repulsive whirlwind of emptions, wrapped up in a horrifying coming of age story.
We only wanted to repeat one film from Provoke 2021, and Raw was an easy choice.
Directed By Amy Holden Jones
Written by Rita May Brown
1982
MOnday, Oct 30 - 6:40
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As unlikely as it seems, the Slumber Party Massacre franchise was written and directed entirely by women. Still, these movies came out of Roger Corman’s New World Entertainment, so his boobs and blood quota was in full effect.
In no installment the tension more obvious than the original, directed by Amy Holden Jones. On one hand the film is clever, filled with subtle feminism, and populated by a likeable young cast who get to be real characters. On the other, you’ve got possibly the single most gratuitous shower scene ever filmed.
Friday, Oct 28
7:00 - Slash/Back
9:00 - The Being
Saturday, Oct 29
4:40 - Pet Sematary
7:00 - Slash/Back
9:00 - Raw
Sunday, Oct 30
3:00 - Short Films
5:00 - The Banana Splits Movie
7:00 - Revenge
9:30 - Saint Maud
Schedule By Day
Monday, Oct 31
6:30 - Slumber Party Massacre
8:30 - Pet Sematary
Tuesday, Nov 1
7:00 - Saint Maud
9:00 - The Banana Splits Movie
Wednesday, Nov 2
7:00 - The Hitch-Hiker
8:45 - Revenge
Thursday, Nov 3
6:30 - Raw
8:45 - Slash/Back
Provoke Punchcard
Instead of an expensive festival pass that’s awkward to use, we do something a lot simpler for Provoke. If you plan to see a lot of movies, ask us for an event punch card. We’ll punch out each movie you see, and after you’ve been to 6 different movies we’ll let you into the rest for free.
Obligatory fine print: Only one free admission to each movie, and seeing the same movie twice doesn’t get you 2 punches.