Equal parts elegant and terrifying, Peur(s) du Noir is a
collection of six animated, black-and-white horror movies produced by French people. You can taste the Frenchiness in the
intermittent comedy segments, geometric blanc-et-noir kaleidoscopes with voice-overs about particularly Gallic terrors: “I’m
scared of being uninformed about politics… I’m moving
center-left.” The rest is classic horror about power (an aristocrat
with homicidal dogs), possession (an anime short about Japanese
schoolchildren and bloody-minded ghosts), and infestation (a nasty
bit by hometown hero Charles Burns about sex and bugs). How can
something so scary be so beautiful? (See movie times, www.thestranger.com, for
details.)
Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua.... More by Brendan Kiley
I am so looking forward to seeing this, once this election is over!