“Zibahkhana: Hell’s Ground” screens at The Andy Warhol Museum Zibahkhana: Hell’s Ground (2007), a low-budget, India splatter/slasher film from Pakistan, was screened at the Andy Warhol Museum on the 5th of December in 2008. Arguably the first and only Pakistani film to screen at the…
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Crazy Love (1987) Cast: Joss De Pauw, Geert Hunaerts, Michael Pas, Gene Bervoets, Amid Chakir Director: Dominique Deruddere Synopsis: A delightful, bitter-sweet, tragic-comical fable – akin to Lynch at his best. Verdict ★★★★★★★★★★ 8.9/10 This Belgian film based on the works of American author Charles…
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Verdict ★★★★★★★★★★ 8.8/10 Brainiac (1961) El Baron Del Terror Cast: Abel Salazar, Ruben Rojo, Ariadne Welter, Luis Aragon, David Silva, German Robles Director: Chano Urueta Synopsis: Riotous Mexican monster movie makes. Essential. BRAINIAC, AKA EL BARON DEL TERROR (1961) The Incredibly Strange Cinema Club February…
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Artfest 2002 – Pakistani Cinema Poster Exhibition curated by The Hot Spot. By 2002 The Hot Spot’s first steps into the world wide web had started to make waves. The website was created by Omar Tufail, a Hot Spot customer from Scotland who was a…
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered! Bubonic Films Snaps up Cult Classic Spoof AURAT RAJ (1979) Bubonic Fims snapped up Worldwide Rights to Rangeela’s madcap spoof-satire fantasy from 1979 which deserved a wider audience. We got hold of what is likely to be the last remaining 35mm film…
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Bubonic Films Rescues & Acquires Rights to Forgotten Pakistani “Dracula” Film The Hot Spot’s subsidiary Bubonic Films acquired the Worldwide Rights to a long-lost and forgotten Pakistani “Dracula” film from 1967. Together with The British Company Mondo Macabro, we set about restoring and re-issuing the…
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The Hot Spot’s Hand-Painted Pakistani Movie Posters Exhibition at The Commonwealth Institute, London. This Poster exhibition was a dream come true, but making it happen was quite the opposite. Transporting dozens of heavy canvas posters from Royal Park to The Commonwealth Insitute was easy in…
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Someone With a Sense of Humour at Dawn Ranks The Hot Spot’s Crazy Website as one of Pakistan’s Top 10 The Website was an extension of the Printed Magazine we had started called The Scream. Except it allowed us to express so much more of our…
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Verdict ★★★★★★★★★★ 8.2/10 At The Incredibly Strange Cinema Club for Halloween, 1999 Blair Witch Project, The (1999) Cast: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Micheal Williams Directors: Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick Synopsis: Low-budget shocker. Innovative, different, a breath of fresh air! “it creeps up on you”,…
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The Hot Spot’s 1st Horror Film Festival in Islamabad 1999 The Hot Spot Islamabad Horror Film Festival – a landmark in Islamabad’s “culturally” emaciated calendar manages to notch on a few thousand more rupees to the Edhi Fund. The event is organized as a fitting…