Location: Kino Beton, Youth center Split(Ulica slobode 28)

Time: July 1 – August 26, starting at 8 PM

After last year’s summer immersion into the basics of cinematic horror, the cycle Horror in the House 2 returns to Dom mladih with a program that follows some of the most fascinating transformations of horror film over the past fifty years.

This year’s selection shows how horror continuously finds new forms to materialize fears arising from social, technological, and psychological disturbances. Horror in the House 2 does not simply present a selection of films, but traces the shifts and mutations of the genre through its subgenres. Teen, tech, folk, surrealist, slasher, and body horror here are not just categories, but different models of fear and indicators of social anxiety—ways in which horror organizes worlds in collapse.

The cycle opens with a lecture by film critic, analyst, and program curator Erik Lončar on the phenomenon of the puzzle film within the horror genre. The question of how to connect narrative structures that draw viewers into labyrinths  of uncertainty, unreliable perspectives, and hidden meanings will run through the entire program. This introduction will take place on July 1 at Kino Beton, starting at 8 PM.

Classic British horror The Legend of Hell House (1973) offers one of the most intriguing cinematic explorations of a haunted space, while Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness (1994) masterfully intertwines fiction and reality in a nightmarish world where perception becomes contagion. The second installment of the cult A Nightmare on Elm Street series, Freddy’s Revenge (1985), met with divided reactions, but within the slasher framework opens up space for repressed identities and positions the body as a site of conflict between desire and norm.

The contemporary section of the program presents four titles that do not merely continue the genre’s legacy but radically rework it. Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor (2020) merges subject and technology in a story of identity as transmission and operation, while the cult Canadian film Ginger Snaps (2000) uses the werewolf motif as a metaphor for adolescence, sisterhood, and gender destabilization. The Estonian film November (2017) offers a folkloric hallucination in which humans, animals, and spirits share the same substance. Palme d’Or winner Titane (2021) by Julia Ducournau concludes the cycle with one of the most provocative and inventive genre works of the past decade, in which the boundary between the organic and the mechanical ultimately dissolves.

Horror in the House 2 takes place every Wednesday during July and August at Kino Beton, Youth center Split(Ulica slobode 28, Split), starting at 8 PM. Admission is free, and all films are screened with subtitles. The program is co-financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and the City of Split.

Program:

• 1.7.2026 // Lecture: Puzzle Film in the Horror Genre, lecturer Erik Lončar
• 8.7.2026 // The Legend of Hell House, dir. John Hough (USA, 1973, 95’)
• 15.7.2026 // In the Mouth of Madness, dir. John Carpenter (USA, 1994, 95’)
• 22.7.2026 // A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, dir. Jack Sholder (USA, 1985, 87’)
• 29.7.2026 // Possessor, dir. Brandon Cronenberg (CA, 2020, 103’)
• 12.8.2026 // Ginger Snaps, dir. John Fawcett (USA, 2000, 108’)
• 19.8.2026 // November, dir. Rainer Sarnet (EE, 2017, 115’)
• 26.8.2026 // Titane, dir. Julia Ducournau (FR/BE, 2021, 108’)