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At the 2024 Overlook Film Festival, The Past And Present Of Genre Merged

Like a macabre pilgrimage, the Overlook Film Festival summons genre film obsessives from around the country and beyond to the party-friendly streets of New Orleans, Louisiana—a city whose one-of-a-kind history with the otherworldly befits the event’s atmosphere. Dedicated to the late Doug Jones, a longtime festival programmer and esteemed member of the Los Angeles film community, the 2024 edition featured repertory presentations from his personal wish list.
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Explosive 'real-life Cuckoo's Nest' doco that mental asylum bosses kept hidden for years
READ MORE: Kids' TV hosts now - Noel Edmonds bust-up, bitter feud and CBeebies co-star marriageThe documentary was filmed at Bridgewater State Hospital, in southern Massachusetts, in 1966 and scheduled for released the following year.Named after a talent show put on by staff at the asylum, the film was an unsettling watch.The hospital had originally been opened as a charitable facility offering shelter to people in the community, but was later converted to a workhouse for inmates with short sentences.By the 1960s, it housed the criminally insane and those whose sanity was being evaluated before court hearings.And in scenes akin to those in Milos Forman's 1975 movie adaptation of Ken Kesey's 1962 book, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, patients were mistreated, mishandled and taunted by guards.Wiseman's film painted the institution negatively, highlighting inhumane conditions.It showed a patient telling a doctor that his condition wasn’t improving due to his environment while pleading to be let out.He is seen insisting to the medical professional that he is sane and that his issues are in fact being caused by the institution and medication he's being made to take, which he says is causing him more harm.However, his concerns are dismissed by the doctor.
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Creepy Midwich Cuckoo-style children bollards bemuse residents of UK village
READ MORE: 'Massive gas explosion blast' leaves house smoking wreck as whole roof blown off"Because no one ever believes me when I tell them that one of our neighbouring villages has made their bollards look like Midwich Cuckoo style children, I have recorded the ghastly proof on video," he wrote."It's worse at night."The clip shows him driving through a school safety zone as a sign suggested drivers to drive at a speed of 20mph when the lights show.And two metres further down the pole, a child bollard dressed up in blue sweater and pleated skirt is placed on the pavement, facing towards the drivers.As Andrew slows down and continues, another one is seen standing right next to a bus stop.A third one, which is placed near a zebra crossing, appears to be "staring" at Andrew as he zooms in the camera.Many viewers felt chills and said the child bollards are "terrifying" and "the stuff of nightmares"."Crikey," one said and a second wrote: "That's very disturbing."To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.And a third added: "I think the painted bollards would be more of a distraction rather than a warning of children around which could be more dangerous?" Andrew admitted that he didn't notice if there is any school around, explaining: "Whenever I go through, I'm too mesmerised by the creepy bollards to notice anything else."The life-size statues first appeared in 2009 In Leicester and it can now be found outside schools in other cities such as Plymouth and Kirkby.READ NEXT:
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