Schedule:

6:30 PM - 6:45 PM: The Vourdalak Opening Act: The Tenth Door

Coming for more? Beware of what lurks behind The Tenth Door...

An avant-garde teacher brings a small group of college students to an international artists installation. They are greeted by The World Trickster who alarms them and sends them into an Alternate Reality. Everyone is shocked and dazzled by the whole experience. One of the students goes too far.

Produced by Pittsburgh's very own Michael Lies and Cathy Tuttle, featuring a cast of CMU and University of Pittsburgh student alumni! This exclusive screening comes complimentary to all ticketed guests of The Vourdalak.

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7:00 PM: The Vourdalak

Presented By: University of Pittsburgh Frederick Honors College

Sponsored By: ​University of Pittsburgh Slavic Languages

Original Title: Le Vourdalak

Duration: 91 minutes

Country: France

Language: French with English Subtitles

Director(s): Adrien Beau

All is not well inside the lush forests of Eastern Europe. In this reimagining of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s classic novella The Family of the Vourdalak, the Marquis d'Urfé is lost and seeking shelter on the estate of one “old Gorcha”, a supposed ally of the French king. But Gorcha is missing from the house when the Marquis appears–and the old man’s bizarre and secretive family seems all too remiss to share the details. This story is one of frivolous passions, flaming egos, and furtive struggles against the status quo of masculinity; all these come together to form a screening event that is, by all accounts, well and truly terrifying. This is modern horror told almost in the mournful retrospective, an homage to long-forgotten folklore.

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