Re-Wind (aka Celluloid Nightmares) – New Restoration
- Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025, 8:00pm
Screening location: SIFF Film Center – 167 Republican St, Seattle (located within the Seattle Center, just north of Climate Pledge Arena / east of KEXP and The Vera Project)
When a grisly, point-of-view snuff videotape is found in a refrigerator, a young man becomes obsessed with tracking down its creator and finding out whether or not the brutal murder depicted on it was real. As he delves deeper into Tokyo’s underground video scene with a female reporter who calls herself Crime Hunter, his own perversions come to the fore.
Fusing gruesome gore and raw sex while wryly paying tribute to Michael Powell’s seminal PEEPING TOM, RE-WIND (also known as CELLULOID NIGHTMARES) is one of legendary pink (pinku eiga) film director Hisayasu Satô's most powerful and impressive early works, rarely screened in America until now.
New 2K restoration. In Japanese with English subtitles.
“…an evocatively gritty and bleak mixture of sex and horror-thriller set in a neon-tinged urban environment and filtered through a fuzzy 80s video aesthetic… There’s certainly more than enough here to please exploitation fans.” The Bloody Pit of Horror Blog