Elvira Serio

Argentina is a country with an extensive and varied cinematography. Within this enormity, there is a rare, atypical… bizarre cinema. Bizarrofilia aims to investigate the origin and meaning of the word “bizarre”, how the passage of time implies reinterpretations of some works, and focuses on the contemporary production of films that aim to distance themselves from any mimetic representation of reality… although in a country like ours reality always surpasses fiction.

Melkor is a rebellious demon who choses Buenos Aires to turn it into his personal hell by unleashing a demonic invasion. Zombies and demons walk the earth. All is chaos, fire, and death. The only one capable of stopping the hordes of the underworld is Cazador, but he only seems interested in drinking, eating, and fucking. To spark his interest the key will be Bussi the bear, his favorite plush toy. Based on the 90s comic.

Rome is ruled by two emperors, Julius Caesar and Nero, who perform all kinds of orgies to celebrate their vast war triumphs and are controlling alchemy to create a homunculus. This being commits a terrible crime for which the war hero Gaius Prolificus is blamed, who becomes a fugitive from Rome.

Orella and Cayalot are a duo of Buenos Aires police officers who detest themselves, but who by chance end up locked in a building dominated by drug traffickers who experiment with androids and traffic cocaine inside people.

A series of nasty crimes are happening in a photography set. Photographer Chic Sensuale and all his models are both suspects and victims.

Bondini is a mad doctor who is creating an army of Zombie Cannibals and trying to give birth to the first zombie baby

In 1981, the de facto government financed a Victor Melman / Champagne Oyarbide film, to reach a new audience and give a message in favor of the imminent takeover of the Malvinas. When the military saw the finished film the filmmakers had to go into exile in Guatemala and the film was banned. Wes Craven plagiarized it after seeing it in a Guatemalan screening.

Earth succumbed to a nuclear war caused by an infamous evil being known as Dr Hell, who today dominates the world with his technology from a distant planet called Goretech. Now the world is only violence and death and humanity is inexorably approaching its extinction, as there are no women left alive. A timorous and cowardly young man named Han meets a mythical curmudgeonly old man who will teach him the secret of martial arts, and together they will fight to end the tyranny of the sinister Dr Hell.

Earth succumbed to a nuclear war caused by an infamous evil being known as Dr Hell, who today dominates the world with his technology from a distant planet called Goretech. Now the world is only violence and death and humanity is inexorably approaching its extinction, as there are no women left alive. A timorous and cowardly young man named Han meets a mythical curmudgeonly old man who will teach him the secret of martial arts, and together they will fight to end the tyranny of the sinister Dr Hell.

Anarchist punks battle a neo-fascist Argentine government in a near-future dystopia.