Shapes of Fear.
B-Movie Oddities and Experimental Asian Horror brings together Asian B-movies, cult oddities, and experimental horror that explore the strange shapes of fear. The program features two Japanese double bills alongside a selection of Asian horror shorts from East and Southeast Asia. From Malay folklore and the Pontianak to cyberpunk body-horror, these films twist genre conventions as bodies mutate, the everyday turns uncanny, and terror slips into laughter.
Rooted in the unruly spirit of the B-movie, these works embrace chaos, camp, and visible seams, revealing cinema as an act of creative rebellion. Horror is at its most compelling when it reveals its own construction.
Join us for puppeteering workshops before events in Cavia and Plaatsmaken!
Puppet workshop:
The workshop offers an accessible introduction to shadow puppetry and animation. Participants will bring their creations to life through simple stop-motion animation exercises. Participants imagine a creature and collectively draw it onto paper. We examine how the puppets move, how different joints create different movements and are made for different characters. The drawings are translated into separate puppet components and assembled into fully functioning shadow puppets with which a short stop-motion video will be created.
RSVP Cavia (TBA)
RSVP Plaatsmaken (TBA)
PROGRAM of LAB111 Amsterdam
Tuesday 03.02.2026
19:45-
19:50
Introduction
19:50 - 20:40
Film screening
The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
20:40 -
21:00
break
21:00 -
21:05
Introduction
21:05 -
22:45
Film screening
One Cut of the Dead
22:45
The end
TICKETS
€13.00
Cineville card free
PROGRAM of
CAVIA, Amsterdam
Saturday 14.02.2026
20:00
Doors Open
20:30 - 20:35
Introduction
20:35 - 21:40
Shorts screening
21:40
The end
TICKETS
€5.00
Cineville card free
PROGRAM of Plaatsmaken, Arnhem
Thursday 19.02.2026
18:00 - 19:30
Workshop
20:00 - 20:05
Introduction
20:05 - 21:10
Shorts screening
TICKETS
€4.00
PROGRAM of LAB111, Amsterdam
Tuesday 10.03.2026
19:00 - 19:05
Introduction
19:05 - 20:35
Film screening
Hiruko the Goblin
20:35-21:00
Break
21:00 - 21:05
Introduction
21:05 - 22:40
Film screening
Vampire Clay
22:40
The end
TICKETS
€13.00
Cineville card free
PROGRAM of Filmhuis Den Haag
Wednesday 11.03.2026
20:45-20:50
Introduction
20:50 -21:40
Film screening
The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
21:40 -22:00
break
22:00 - 22:05
Introduction
22:05 -23:45
Film screening
One Cut of the Dead
23:45
The end
TICKETS
€12.70 (Until 27 y/o €9.50, Delftpas/Rotterdampas
€9.00)
Cineville card free
PROGRAM of KINO, RotterdamFriday 13.03.2026
19:30 - 19:35
Introduction
19:35 - 21:05
Film screening
Hiruko the Goblin
21:05-21:30
Break
21:30 - 21:35
Introduction
21:35 - 23:10
Film screening
Vampire Clay
23:10
The end
TICKETS
€13.20 (CJP/Student €10.00)
Cineville card free
ABOUT
Ghazale Moqanaki is a multidisciplinary artist living in the Hague, the Netherlands. She grew up among sounds, objects, and spaces translated through myths and stories, later creating her own stories about objects to feel closer to them. Objects then became her puppets, her music and her thoughts. Ghazale obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Iranian music performance from University of Tehran and graduated in Artistic Research (MFA) at Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, Netherlands. She has shown her work in the Netherlands and Ireland. Alongside, she has performed in art venues like Kunstinstituut Melly, Studio150 in Amsterdam, and the Oerol festival in Terschelling.
Curator
Marieke Peeters is a visual artist and curator based in The Hague, the Netherlands. She creates immersive installations, sculptures, and films that combine material research with performance. Her recent work has focused on the obake yashiki, the Japanese haunted house attraction exploring how fear can become a catalyst for connection and reflection.
Supported by
Arnhem Gemeente, Het Cultuurfonds
Double Bill I
The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
Shinya Tsukamoto | 1987 | 47’ | Japan | Japanese w/ English subtitles
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The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo is a frantic cyberpunk horror sci-fi epic that feels like a fever dream. Shot on 8mm, the story follows Hikari, a teenage boy with an electricity pole attached to his back, who invents a time machine and travels to the future. There, he finds swarms of punk vampires clouding the world in darkness as he attempts to save it.
One Cut of the Dead
Shinichiro Ueda | 2017 | 96’ | Japan | Japanese w/ English subtitles
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One Cut of the Dead is a wildly inventive zombie horror-comedy that playfully engages with genre conventions. It is an ultra low budget love letter to genre cinema and the creative passion that fuels it.
Double bill II
Hiruko the Goblin
Shinya Tsukamoto | 1991 | 89’ | Japan | Japanese w/ English subtitles
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Description: Hiruko the Goblin is a creature feature horror in which a strange goblin from Japanese folklore named Hiruko is sent to Earth to behead students and turn their bodies into demons. Set in the 80s summer days, students disappear while the local school appears to be built on top of the gates of hell.
Vampire Clay
Soichi Umezawa | 2017 | 81’ | Japan | Japanese w/ English subtitles
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Vampire Clay is a horror-comedy film in which a possessed lump of clay terrorizes the students of a rural art school and transforms their works of art into instruments of violence. The film combines inventive, practical special effects, weird clay monsters, and campy creativity, turning art into something literally all consuming. It celebrates unruly creation and delivers a biting critique of the Japanese art school admission process.
Asian Horror Shorts program
Ms. Pontianak
Alina Wong | 2021 | 22’ | Malaysia | Malay/English w/ English subtitles
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Ms. Pontianak is a mockumentary-style portrait of a Malaysian actress famous for playing the “pontianak”, a vengeful ghost from Malay folklore. As she questions the triviality of her career, the film explores how women and folklore intersect in Southeast Asian horror cinema, blending humor and critical reflection.
Asian Girls
Hyun Lee | 2018 | 6’ | Australia | No spoken language
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Asian Girls follows Chan, a Chinese factory worker who lives alone. Every night, she suffers from horrific nightmares involving the Japanese office worker who lives in the apartment next door. Apart from mumbled greetings in the hallway they keep to themselves yet every night they appear in one another's nightmares.
Part Forever
Alan Ou Chung-An | 2021 | 13’ | Taiwan | Chinese w/ English subtitles
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Part Forever is an atmospheric horror set during a funeral vigil. What begins as a traditional mourning ceremony becomes increasingly unsettling as dark family secrets surface under the candlelit calm. The film transforms a familiar cultural ritual into a site of fear, and an emotional exploration of grief, memory and the unsettling truths families attempt to bury.
Strawberry Shortcake
Deborah Devyn Chuang | 2024 | 22’ | Taiwan | Chinese w/ English subtitles
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Strawberry Shortcake centers on 16 year old Lolo, whose relationship with her mother becomes a surreal and unsettling Freudian loop. What begins as a seemingly ordinary family moment grows increasingly disturbing as fantasy and reality bleed into each other with a strawberry cake at the center of a dreamlike spiral. The film explores the boundaries between childhood innocence and murky subconscious desires in this transgressive short.
Trigger warning: This film contains
unsettling sexual themes. Viewer discretion is advised.
