The Eugenist Film Lands Special Screening Slot in Los Angeles

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The screening for the new independent horror file "The Eugenist" will happen tonight at the Black Hollywood Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA.

When: Special Screening  October 27, 2012 at 6:00pm PST


Where: The Montalban, 1615 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028
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Film Synopsis:

With The Eugenist, director Nasheed once again aims to explore complex themes, this time under the umbrella of a narrative horror film.  The plot revolves around a group of college students who stumble upon an abandoned school.  Unbeknownst to them, the school was targeted for a eugenics population control experiment.  The students decide to explore the school just for kicks, but once inside, they find out that the school is not so abandoned.

For those unaware, eugenics is an applied science and/or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits like blindness or deafness (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).  In simpler words, it focuses on selective breeding.  Historically, eugenics aimed at manipulation of human populations and though popular in the early 20^th century, it became negatively viewed when Nazi abuses enforced ‘racial hygiene’ and human experimentation on groups they considered “undesired.” But with genetic and reproductive technologies now seeing an upswing, the topic is very much in the news these days. 

And those knowledgeable of classic “mad scientist” horror films from the 1930’s know that its been theorized that that many of these films,  like Frankenstein, Island of Lost Souls, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, were reflective of the ideologies and fears of the eugenics movement.  More from The Eugenist fill unfold on the official website in the coming months.

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