Mass in Motion
Macho Dancer
Film Skool
| One of Lino Brocka’s lasting successes, 1988’s Macho Dancer admirably blends the maestro’s flair for socially conscious melodrama and pulp provocation — setting the template for what would become Viva Films’ erotic niche to this day. Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol (Allan Paule) leaves his native province to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Manila. As Pol learns to ropes alongside fellow stripper Noel (Daniel Fernando) and savvy prostitute Bambi (Jaclyn Jose), he discovers more than his young mind bargained for: an underbelly of protection rackets, human trafficking and political corruption. Underlying the film’s astutely cynical outlook on systemic, class-based exploitation in the Filipino context is a neon-lit tale of sexual self-discovery gyrating between queer desire and heteronormative strictures, sensuality and grit, tenderness and violence. Heavily censored upon release and hugely successful overseas, Macho Dancer follows the recent re-discovery of Lino Brocka’s Bona and is presented here in a new 4K restoration from Viva Film’s original film elements.
Incense for the Damned
Film Skool
| If you think you've seen everything British horror had to offer, you haven't seen this.
A mysterious collapse, the starting point for one of British horror's most sexually charged and transgressive vampire films. Not all vampires wear capes. Some disappear to Mykonos and never come back the same.
Incense for the Damned follows Patrick Mower as Richard Fountain, an academic runaway who disappears into obsession on a sun-drenched research trip to Mykonos. It's a psychedelic mod-horror that doesn't just blur the line between the supernatural and the erotic — it weaponises it, exploring addiction, desire and moral collapse in ways mainstream horror rarely dared.
Co-starring Patrick Macnee, Imogen Hassall, Alex Davion, Johnny Sekka, Edward Woodward and horror royalty Peter Cushing.
The Sun Never Sets
Film Skool
| A woman's relationship with her older, divorced boyfriend hits a rough patch just as her ex reappears in her life, leading to complicated emotions and messy entanglements in the Alaskan wilderness.
It Ends
Film Skool
| Friends on a late-night food run become trapped on an infinite highway with otherworldly terrors lurking beyond. Confined in their Jeep Cherokee, they must decide whether to accept their fate or attempt escape.
The Weight
Film Skool
| Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness.
One Night Only
Film Skool
| Two New Yorkers search for love on the one night of the year when sex is legal.
