cremator

There were a couple of really strong female performances — “An Unmarried Woman,” “Woman Under the Influence” — but also things like “The Cremator,” which was stirring for the moment we’re in, just the banality of evil.

Punk rockers, a cremator and medical-supply workers have a problem with zombies in Kentucky.

The film’s leading man went briefly into hiding, but “The Cremator” was completed the following year and, inevitably, banned.

“The Cremator,” adapted from a novel by Ladislav Fuks, is a disquieting mix of satire and horror, filled with inexplicable characters seen in fragmentary close-ups or through distorted lenses.

Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1973 as part of the “New Directors/New Films” series, “The Cremator” is getting a belated theatrical run in a new digital restoration at Metrograph, as part of retrospective devoted to its director, Juraj Herz.