Film

Cinema Rediscovered: The Mafu Cage

Director
Karen Arthur
Certificate
15
Running Time
108 mins

Meet astronomer Ellen (Lee Grant) are her sister Cissy (Carol Kane). They live together in a crumbling mansion bequeathed to them by their anthropologist father. With Cissy’s pet ‘mafus’ (monkeys) in a cage in the living room, obviously. Ellen has been struggling to keep her sibling reasonably sane since their father’s passing, but all hell breaks loose when she starts seeing a co-worker.

https://youtu.be/dbJwkJcMuRU

Karen Arthur’s rarely screened cult 1978 psychological horror flick is shown as part of the Women on the Periphery strand of Cinema Rediscovered, with an introduction by The Final Girls.

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By robin askew, Thursday, Jun 21 2018

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