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DEATH LAID AN EGG
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1
Fri, May 24 9:30 PM
Night
Owl Cinema / Giallo Horror!
DEATH LAID AN EGG
Friday, May 24th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The first and only murder mystery to revolve entirely around a farm for mutant
chickens, this explosive oddity has become a huge cult favorite. From Giulio Questi, acclaimed director of Django, Kill! (If You Live Shoot!) comes
one of the most startling and shocking Italian thrillers ever made. Anna (Gina Lollobrigida) and Marco (Jean-Louis Trintignant) run an
automated state-of-the-art facility and develop a strain of boneless,
mutant chickens. Marco appears to lead a double life as a serial killer
who specializes in stabbing prostitutes to death. When Anna's amorous and
alluring cousin Gabri (Ewa Aulin) starts a steamy affair with Marco and
discovers his darker side, she plans to murder Anna and frame Marco for the
crime. Compellingly crafted, brilliant and bizarre, and arguably the most
insanely idiosyncratic giallo ever directed, Death Laid An Egg is a true wayward masterpiece of kaleidoscopic
Italian counterculture cinema. (Italy,
1968, 89 mins, English | Dir. Giulio Questi)
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