The Mafu Cage

Director: Karen Arthur

1978 / 102min / Digital

One of the first American horror films directed by a woman, Arthur’s independently financed The Mafu Cage features a chillingly committed Kane as Cissy, a child-woman who lives with astronomer sister Lee Grant in a crumbling house in the Hollywood Hills, passing her days tormenting her pet monkeys, harboring incestuous desires for her sibling, and generally spiraling towards a spectacular, blood-splattered breakdown. A primal psychodrama with insidious water torture pacing and suffocatingly claustrophobic atmosphere, The Mafu Cage is a movie that gets under your skin and stays put.

Introduction from director Karen Arthur on Saturday, August 17th