Drawing examples from horror films that allegorize the disintegration of masculinity and patriarchy in the 1960s, emotional exploitations of human relationships in the 1980s, and brutally painful portraits of degraded intellectuals in the 1990s, this film series presents a compelling cross-section of an increasingly vital national cinema that has recently spurred retrospectives in major film festivals and venues across the world including Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Smithsonian (Washington D.C.), and Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York).