Dance or Die | The Best of the Worst in Warsaw
About the event
DANCE OR DIE
The Best of the Worst invite you to a film screening.
📅 26 February (Thursday) | 20:00
🎟️ Tickets: https://kinoteka.pl/film/tancz-albo-gin/
📍 Where: Kinoteka, Palace of Culture and Science, plac Defilad 1, Warsaw
Screening without ads.
ABOUT THE FILM:
A dance-step plunge into the 80s, drugs and bad decisions.
Jason tries to handle two things at once: get his dance crew ready for a big performance and break free from drug addiction. The problem is he lives with a roommate who deals cocaine, and when that roommate is killed over business scams, Jason begins to be harassed by dealers who are convinced he’s hiding the missing merchandise. Dance? Present. Drug-crime plot? Present. A choice between dancing and trouble? Constantly.
This is cinema that looks and sounds like a late-night VHS tape: the dance flair of the era (ambitions like “I want to do something like Flashdance”) collided with a grim drug storyline and growing paranoia. Add Las Vegas as a backdrop — a city that is itself neon, promise and warning at once. The result is a very 80s hybrid: a dance thriller with erotic scenes and drug-soiled grit, where the dance floor, the bedroom and the street operate on equal terms.
Richard W. Munchkin directs “Dance or Die” like B-movies ought to be made: high pulse, low budget and never stopping the music. Real locations, schematic drama and acting that balances between passion and excess make for a film that doesn’t always hit the rhythm but never leaves the floor. This is cinema that doesn’t try to be elegant — it prefers to be loud, sweaty and honest.
- tytuł oryginalny: Dance or die
- reżyseria: Richard W. Munchkin
- gatunek: thriller | USA | 1987
- czas trwania: 1 h 30 min
- język: angielski
- napisy: polskie
WHAT IS THE BEST OF THE WORST?
These are screenings of diverse B-cinema – from old American sci-fi with aliens and flying saucers hung on strings, through punchy 80s action cinema with spotless heroes in tracksuits, to horrors with rubber monsters.
Low budgets, absurd dialogue, poor acting, illogical plots, and the creators’ commitment and passion are some common traits of the worst productions in film history presented in the series. The Best of the Worst has been sparking love for B-cinema among audiences since 2015. Hundreds of screenings and events have taken place so far. The series’ creator and programmer is Monika Stolat, and the organizer is Nowa Aleksandria.
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