Splat! FilmFest: The Role of Life and Death

TypeHall 1 - Cinema

Hour

26.10

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20.45 hours |

A group of comedians and a serial killer in a bloody comedy horror

After years of separation, a group of comedian friends get an invitation to the house of a former buddy from the comedy pack. The host was the only one of their crew to have a real Hollywood success. He did what every comedian dreams of: he wrote a script that brought him a fortune. The comedians come to his forest mansion, and each of them has the same plan in his pocket: to carve out a role in the next film. Old resentments, jealousy and grievances come to the surface, and gloomy secrets come out already during dinner. As if that were not enough, a serial killer who knows no mercy is prowling the surrounding forest. Can people who live by making others laugh deal with the beast in human skin?

English with Polish subtitles

THE ROLE OF LIFE AND DEATH, directed by Ian Faria, USA, 2026, 87'

--For whom: youth, adults

Venue: Sala 1 - Kinowa

tickets: 25 zł (n), 23 zł (u), 20 zł (with Kinomana Card)

-- [Colorful movie poster. Four adults, three men and one woman, look anxiously in the same direction One of the men holds a flashlight, a woman holds a grater.]

“The Role of Life and Death” is a brilliant comedy horror with elements of a thriller and a bloody satire on show business. It mixes absurd buddy comedy, slasher panic and sky-high suspense, and by the way, it's just terribly entertaining. This is a film about friendship put to the test, ambition brought to a slight febrile state. Most of all, however, “The Role of Life and Death” is a hilarious horror, a film astonishingly brutal and gruesomely ridiculous. There is also the nervous energy of comedic improvisation, and the comicism appearing where the characters would most like to preserve the remnants of dignity. It resembles a standup evening that is punctuated by a series of bloody murders.