The Vermont International film Foundation & Vermont Folklife Center Present:Vermont Folk Horror Roadshow with Walter Ungerer's The Animal

The film will be presented at four locations in Vermont this fall: Brattleboro ()ct. 26), Greensboro (Oct. 27), Montpelier (Oct.29), Woodstock (Oct. 30) - presented by the Vermont Folklife Center and the Vermont International Film Festival with commentary by Stephen R. Bissette

Film description:A woman waits for a man at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter. Snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Later two strange children appear at the window, and an old woman summons them away. Isolation, then alienation overcome the couple. The woman has a dream which comes true. She disappears. Nothing is explained. Only footprints remain in the snow that covers the supernatural landscape.