Performance before the screening: HEATHERS’ BLOOD FEAST: A TALK GONE HORRIBLY WRONG

For decades Black housekeeper Mavis has been living with a wealthy white family in a suburb of Cape Town. When her daughter Tsidi asks her if she and Mavis’s grandchild, Winnie, can move in, the elderly woman agrees, but under one condition: that all the rules of the bedridden landlady—whom they call “Good Madam”—be followed. Soon the shadows begin to grow, and Tsidi realizes that something’s fishy about this place. In Good Madam, Jenna Cato Bass unleashes a horror thriller with a satirical, dissident edge. Its uncanny atmosphere feeds from both the specter of a supernatural menace and the threat of your garden-variety racism.