“A great man once said, ‘The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story,’ and I believe in that wholeheartedly.”

Katurian just wants to write stories; he’s above the anti-totalitarian subtext of other, lesser, writers. Sure, a worrying amount of his plots involve children being gruesomely murdered… but that’s just artistic licence. At least, it was until children started being killed in exactly the same ways as in his stories. Under pressure from two disgruntled police officers who just want to get round to the execution, Katurian soon realises that his stories are not as fictional as he thought they were.

Runtime: 135 minutes (incl. a 15-min interval)
Latecomers allowed within 15 minutes of show start.