Re-Wind (aka Celluloid Nightmares) - New Restoration
Opens October 15, 2025
Wednesday, October 15 | 8:00pm | SIFF Film Center
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema
When a grisly, point-of-view snuff videotape is found in a refrigerator, a young man becomes obsessed with tracking down its creator and finding out whether or not the brutal murder depicted on it was real. One of legendary pink film director Hisayasu Satô's most powerful and impressive early works, newly restored.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
As he delves deeper into Tokyo’s underground video scene with a female reporter who calls herself Crime Hunter, his own perversions come to the fore.
Fusing gore and erotica while wryly paying tribute to Michael Powell’s seminal Peeping Tom, Re-Wind (also known as Celluloid Nightmares) is one of legendary pink (pinku eiga) film director Hisayasu Satô's most powerful and impressive early works, rarely screened in America until now.
“…an evocatively gritty and bleak mixture of sex and horror-thriller set in a neon-tinged urban environment and filtered through a fuzzy 80s video aesthetic… There’s certainly more than enough here to please exploitation fans.”—The Bloody Pit of Horror Blog
- Director: Hisayasu Satô
- Principal Cast: Kiyomi Itô, Kazuhiro Sano, Sayaka Hitomi, Reika Kazami, Rino Shimazaki
- Country: Japan
- Year: 1988
- Running Time: 65 min.
- Language: Japanese with English subtitles
- Has Subtitles: Yes