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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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2008 Dead Channels Film Festival
Audience Award Winners
Best Feature Film
Tomas Alfredson's
Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma In)
Best Short Film
Richard Gale's
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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THE SAN FRANCISCO FESTIVAL OF FANTASTIC FILM
OCTOBER 2 - 10, 2008: SAN FRANCISCO & OAKLAND
Friday, October 3: 8pm - Roxie
Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in)
2008, Sweden, subtitled in English
Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Winner - Best Narrative Feature - TriBeCa Film Festival
Jury Prize Best Film - Fantasia Film Festival
www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/
"The film is beautifully shot and anchored by very strong performances from its young leads and stands quite easily as the most compelling new entry into vampire mythos in … well, as long as I can remember. An exceptional piece of work, Let The Right One In comes with the highest possible recommendation.' - Todd Brown: Twitch
Closing Night Film
Thursday, October 9th: 8pm - Roxie
Surveillance
2008 USA
Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Produced by David Lynch
Starring Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Michael Ironside, French Stewart
Cannes 2008
www.wildbunch-distribution.com/site/surveillance
www.movieweb.com/news/39/27739.php
Everyone is lying. Witnesses fabricate stories for two FBI agents (Ormond and Pullman) who arrive to investigate a brutal murder spree that may involve members of the corrupt local police force, headed by the legendary Michael Ironside. Jennifer Lynch's follow up to the much maligned Boxing Helena is an action-packed, clever and strange, violent and cruel, neo-noir FBI procedural thriller. It'll get under your skin.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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www.deadchannels.com
BEST OF THE BAY 2008!
BEST ON-SCREEN MIND WARP
When edgy director of programming Bruce Fletcher left the San Francisco Independent Film Festival (IndieFest), fans who'd relied on his horror and sci-fi picks were understandably a little worried.
Fortunately, Fletcher's Dead Channels: The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film proved there's room enough in this town for multiple fests with an eye for sleazy, gory, gruesome, unsettling, and offbeat films, indie and otherwise. There's more: this summer Dead Channels teamed up with Thrillpeddlers to host weekly screenings at the Grand Guignol theater company's space, the Hypnodrome.
"White Hot 'N' Warped Wednesdays" are exactly that — showcasing all manner of psychotronica, from Pakistani gore flick Hell's Ground to culty grind house classics like She-Freak (1967). Come this October, will the Dead Channels fest be able to top its utterly warped Hump Day series? Fear not for the programming, dark-dwelling weirdos — fear only what's on the screen.
Zed Channels
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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www.deadchannels.com
WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED WEDNESDAYS!
Prepare to be amazed!
Dead Channels, Thrillpeddlers (and the raging forest fires) turn up the heat this summer with WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED WEDNESDAYS at the Hypnodrome!
The Hypnodrome Theatre
575 10th Street, San Francisco
All shows start at 7:30pm
Tickets are $5.00 at the door. Advance tickets are available at www.thrillpeddlers.com
Our spectacular series of cinematic curiosities and tantalizing twisted tales runs from Wednesday, June 18th through Wednesday August 13th in beautiful downtown San Francisco (at 575 10th Street). The silver screen (and the stage itself) will overflow with odd delights, as we bring you entertaining, imaginative, obscure cinema from around the globe! Join us for ridiculously enthralling motion pictures that deserve to be seen with a proper audience on a big screen.
The Hypnodrome Theatre will burst at the seams with WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED comedy, drama, science-fiction, horror and unclassifiable gems. Thrilling pre-show live warm-up acts will heat things up, and we'll dig through the infamous Cosmic Hex Archives for appropriately warped short subjects as well.
Watch for trailers for coming attractions after the movie concludes (just like the old days)! Fresh popcorn, tasty snacks and satisfying refreshments are always available in the Hypnodrome Theatre. Ample street parking is available and we're giving away great prizes at the screenings from our friends at TLA Releasing – so hold onto your ticket stubs! Mark your calendar. Tickets are available at the door, and online at www.thrillpeddlers.com. See you at the movies!
Wednesday, June 18th! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Warped Wednesdays
SOCKET
Written and directed by Sean Abley
The WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED WEDNESDAYS film series begins with a jolt. We're flying the Rainbow Flag for Pride Month, and invite you to turn on, plug in and get off with SOCKET.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIZpimE_gCU
The inaugural WHITE HOT presentation (and shout-out to Pride Month) is Sean Abley's electrifying SOCKET - a darkly sexual, intelligent, cautionary science-fiction tale about the razor-thin line between desire and need. Sexual obsession, electricity, blacker-than-pitch humor and a touch of Cronenbergian madness - what more could you want from a movie? SOCKET plugs you in to a new dimension of electrifying entertainment (and we promise that you'll never look at an electrical outlet quite the same way again).
OUR SPECIAL GUESTS FOR THE EVENING:
Producer Doug Prinzivalli and star Matthew Montgomery will be on hand to introduce the film and participate in post-screening Q&As. www.velvetcandyentertainment.blogspot.com
Wednesday, June 25th! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Time-Warped Wednesdays
Rumi Missabu's ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE Cabaret
Join Cockette Rumi and special guest chanteuse Cara Vida for "A Cocktail of Glamour and Anarchy" plus a rare screening of the infamous Cockette's feature ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE.
Wednesday, July 2nd! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Warped Wednesdays
ZIBAHKHANA (HELL'S GROUND)
Directed by Omar Ali Khan (2007)
See for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJKfOT0j1Q
www.zibahkhana.com
BANNED IN ITS' OWN COUNTRY!
Brace yourself for a night of action packed mayhem, comic-book panel interludes, moustache-twirling villainy, and gory, old-school Fulci-esque chunk-blowing exotica at the Bay Area premiere of Omar Ali Khan's ZIBAHKHANA (HELL'S GROUND)! This award-winning splatter film (and global film festival favorite) is a strangely familiar, yet strikingly unique, love letter to classic American horror movies. Check out the trailer and you'll get a really good idea of what the night holds in store. Don't miss it on the Hypnodrome's giant screen... or the moon will run red with blood and eternal peril will surely befall you! Mmwuahahaha!!
A Horror movie on the doorstep of the Taliban: Postcard from Islamabad....
"ZIBAHKHANA means slaughterhouse in Urdu, but the English title is HELL'S GROUND. Either title works for 78 minutes of voodoo creepiness, cannibalism, zombies — one of them a midget — gore, disfiguring diseases and a seriously messed up mother-son relationship.
Khan wanted his first full-length feature to be a tribute to the formative films of his youth: PSYCHO, EVIL DEAD, THE EXORCIST, maybe a little ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. "I want this to be the first mindless midnight cult movie ....Pakistan.... has ever had," he told an attentive audience. He's well on his way. If Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Norman Bates and the guy who knows what you did last summer got together for a Friday the 13th party in ....Islamabad...., ZIBAHKHANA would be the result." – Time magazine
Wednesday, July 9th! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Time-Warped Wednesdays
SHE FREAK
(aka Asylum of the Insane)
Directed by Byron Mabe. Written by David F. Friedman. 1967
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDEabMG5Tho
"Behind the tents and tinsel of a monster midway, something barbaric occurs on the Alley of Nightmares!"
Claire Brennen is a waitress who leaves the greasy-spoon diner business for the excitement of the carnival, but quickly discovers that she actually despises freaks and human oddities. Uh-oh! Join us in a Shock-Box to witness Tod Browning's 1932 classic, Freaks, get dragged across the sawdust floor of a 42nd Street grindhouse.
Wednesday, July 16th! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Warped Wednesdays
THE ROOM
Written and directed by Tommy Wiseau (2003)
Take a look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw
www.theroommovie.com
Dead Channels proudly brings Tommy Wiseau's cult phenomenon THE ROOM to San Francisco. Prepare to be flabbergasted!
A True Outsider Masterpiece....
"Perhaps the best testament to the greatness of THE ROOM is its utter indescribability and its curiously strong resistance to mimetic, second-hand description". – Michelson on imdb.com
On July 16th, after a four-year (thus far) run as a monthly midnight movie in Los Angeles, Tommy Wiseau's underground cult sensation. THE ROOM is coming to ....San Francisco..... The management and staff of Dead Channels guarantee that this screening will be one of the strangest viewing experiences you will ever have! Don't believe us? In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dennis Harvey described the movie as "Tommy Wiseau's so-bad-it's-surreal cult microhit," - and that's actually a pretty fair assessment.
However, we believe that it's not actually 'bad' - at least in a negative way. Rather, multi-hyphenate Wiseau's movie is an unforgettable work of hypnotic brilliance. It's what might happen if the late Stanley Kubrick had set out to make the last-word on "BadFilm". Wiseau's amazing movie is so inherently wrong on so many levels that viewing it unleashes an undeniable subliminal power - and it might actually be an astounding work of cinematic art. We're not kidding, you'll be pondering, laughing about (and quoting) THE ROOM for weeks. Satisfying refreshments will be served. Watch it with the people you love!
And the online debate rages on (watch for the rather convincing THE ROOM is made-by-a-vampire theory): www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/usercomments
Wednesday, July 23rd! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Time-Warped Wednesdays
SEX CRIMES OF THE 21st CENTURY
Produced and Directed by J.X. Williams. 1973 (10 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRXf2vfyYs
"I had fled the US because of a obscenity rap (again) and was doing a porn shoot up North in Toronto. I actually had a respectable budget for once and we flew in some top talent like John Holmes and Marilyn Chambers. We even had enough money to commission a bizarro-electronic soundtrack by some local goof named Bruce Haack who recorded (get this) children's records for a living. The production was unremarkable besides the presence of an uncredited producer who later cast Marilyn in a horror film he directed. I even lent him outtakes of her to use in his film. Anyway, I only have the first ten minutes of the film. I don't know what happened to the rest of it but the film wasn't very good anyhow." -- J.X. Williams (as told to Noel Lawrence by the anonymous donor of the film)
Film scholar Noel Lawrence will present a detailed introduction to the film and to the colorful life and the exile of the notorious, and almost forgotten, director J.X. Williams. Lawrence is currently spearheading the ongoing search for film prints of his lost works. www.jxarchive.org
Followed by BYSSHE
Written and directed by Lanny Baugniet. 1968 (silent, 55 minutes)
A live piano score will be performed by V. Vale from RE/Search
"Baugniet should be shot and his body left to rot in the slime at the bottom of the sea." –Bob McCarthy, Cahiers du Cinéma
A decade and a half before Ken Russell's GOTHIC and Ivan Passar's HAUNTED SUMMER, there was BYSSHE. This is a heretofore lost 16mm film version of the now-famous tale by Theatre Rhinoceros founder Lanny Baugniet.
How did 19 year-old Mary Shelley come to write her immortal cautionary tale Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus? Now the truth will be revealed!! With Sandra (Mrs. Peter Dr. Who Davison) Dickinson as Mary Shelley; Lanny Baugniet as Percy Bysshe Shelley; and Caroline (Mrs. Stuart Re-Animator Gordon) Purdy as Augusta Leigh.
Wednesday, July 30th! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Warped Wednesdays
THE PERIOD.
Written and directed by J. Douglas Smith. 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NauCac-IMAg
Do you dare experience a surreal, bleeding-edge, satirical, indie menstrual comedy-horror from Kansas City? The choice is yours: run screaming from the theatre, or go with the flow.
THE PERIOD. is a totally unique underground indie that follows the unique plight of Sharrie Heiman. She is forced to deal with her never-ending Amazonian menstruation, her furious girlfriend Clitoria, a perverted gynecologist, a fast talking agent, and the Art World! Warning! Contains extremely coarse language, bad rhymes, puns, crudity, nudity & oceans of blood from Ms. Heiman's fertile crescent. See it... if you dare!
Wednesday, August 6th! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Time-Warped Wednesdays
THE SORCERERS
Directed by Michael Reeves. 1967
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcEjYgapDjM
He turns them on...he turns them off...to live...love...die or KILL!
The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat (Boris Karloff) has developed a device to project his consciousness into the mind of another person to experience all of their sensory input. Jaded and bored with all the standard sex, drugs, and rock n' roll, Mike (Ian Ogilvy) is in the mood for something different. A match made in science fiction heaven!
Director Michæl Reeves only managed to finish three movies (this is the second) before dying of an accidental overdose of barbiturates and alcohol in 1969 at the age of 24. WITCHFINDER GENERAL starring Vincent Price was Reeves' masterpiece and swan song, but THE SORCERERS is nothing to sneeze at, either. Gritty and quite modern, this picture will not be confused with anything that came out of Hammer Studios during that era. Reeves was not prone to comic relief or the Shakespearian theatrics that mar other efforts of that decade. It's dark and immediate. - Film Threat
Wednesday, August 13th! One Night Only!
White Hot 'N' Warped Wednesdays
THE LEGEND OF GOD'S GUN
Directed by Mike Bruce. 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=65qVDviYBtE
THE LEGEND OF GOD'S GUN is a Western that takes you to hell and back through a kaleidoscope of images, black comedy and fast blasting, death dealing guns. It's a musical journey with peyote visions amidst the harsh backdrop of a cruel world and religious vengeance.
"El Sobero and his dirty, smelly, degenerate cohorts...'. Our narrator offers us hilarious snippets of crucial background on the damned residents of 'Playa Diablo' - the Devil's playground of whores, liars, cowards and thugs that's plagued by particularly ruthless banditos. A town in need of salvation: salvation that our dim-witted bounty hunter brings only in the form of side splitting comic relief.
El Sobero, the bad assed bandito, has no worries and assures us that "my bloodline has been raping and pillaging for thousands of years, with no ill effects..." He drinks the venom of the scorpion amidst swirling visuals - his warped form of religious ecstasy. Then the preacher comes to town…
… and the preacher? "If that man's a preacher, then I'm saint-fucking-Francis!" He strolls through Hell to do the Lord's work in this wretched town of sinners. He's the man in black and he's not taking any crap.
Color enhanced images, and the snapping and popping of hissing film reels follow our cowboys on their path to ultimate justice. THE LEGEND OF GOD'S GUN will kick your ass and take no prisoners! You'll want to see it again. You'll want to buy the soundtrack. Miss it at your peril! - Mike Skurko
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
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POSTAL, WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED, SOCKET, SIDEKICK & more!
Go POSTAL at the Roxie!
Friday, May 30th - Thursday, June 11th
You've already seen Indiana Jones and Iron Man – and you'd rather pull out your own teeth than sit through the Sex and the City movie – so this weekend we heartily recommend you laugh yourself silly at POSTAL - the outrageous new comedy from notorious director Uwe Boll. Dead Channels is delighted to present the return of POSTAL to San Francisco. The exclusive Bay Area engagement will run at the Roxie Film Center in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District (at 3117 16th Street between Valencia and Guerrero) from Friday May 30th through Thursday, June 11th.
Last year, we proudly opened our 2007 film festival with the US premiere of POSTAL – and we stand by our decision. Ignore the internet chatter about how Uwe Boll is the 'Worst Director in the World', and prepare to be wildly entertained by a politically incorrect, hilarious, paranoid, apocalyptic, satirical, angry, laugh-out-loud, action-comedy-romance starring Dave ( Kids in the Hall) Foley, Zack ( A Christmas Story) Ward, Verne ( Mini-Me) Troyer, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush – and a thousand horny monkeys. Be sure to catch Boll's future cult classic on a big screen where it belongs (after a few beers - or whatever). And your hard-earned cash goes to support a local bastion for independent cinema, rather than a multiplex chain. Thanks to Uwe, Bill & Rick at the Roxie for making this presentation possible.
POSTAL: Showtimes at the Roxie Film Center
An Anthony Newley / Dennis Hopper Double Bill!?!?!
Wednesday, June 4th: one night only at the Roxie Film Center: The Film on Film Foundation presents the weirdest double-bill we've seen in a long time – so we're going to get there early to get good seats. Strap yourself in for a night of old-school, maverick, meta-cinematic hell-raising. Ironically, Dennis Hopper's THE LAST MOVIE plays first. At 7pm Hopper's semi-legendary (and rarely seen) hallucinogen-fuelled follow-up to Easy Rider hits the silver screen.
Stick around for the co-feature, the original X-Rated cut of Anthony Newley's CAN HEIRONYMUS MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE AND FIND TRUE HAPPINESS? with Newley and then-wife Joan Collins. The self-reflexive adventures of Heironymus, Mercy, and Goodtime Eddie Filth. Just try to imagine this getting green-lit today.
The Film on Film Foundation is dedicated to screening celluloid film prints, not video projection – a film-geek philosophy that Dead Channels wholeheartedly endorses.
The Dog Days of summer are getting WHITE HOT!
Dead Channels (and Global Warming) turn up the heat this summer with WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED WEDNESDAYS. Our spectacular series of Cinematic Curiosities and Tantalizingly Twisted Tales kicks off on Wednesday June 18th at the Hypnodrome Theatre in beautiful downtown San Francisco (at 575 10th Street, San Francisco).
The Silver Screen will overflow with odd delights as we show you entertaining, unique, imaginative, obscure independent cinema from around the globe! WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED WEDNESDAYS is 5 nights of ridiculously enthralling motion pictures that deserve to be seen with a proper audience on a big screen. The Hypnodrome Theatre will burst at the seams with warped comedy, drama, science-fiction, horror and unclassifiable indie gems – every second Wednesday throughout the summer. Thrilling pre-show live warm-up acts will heat things up, and we'll dig through the infamous Cosmic Hex Archives for appropriately warped short subjects as well. Watch for trailers for coming attractions after the movie concludes (just like the old days)! Fresh popcorn, tasty snacks and satisfying refreshments are always available in the Hypnodrome Theatre. See you at the movies!
Wednesday, June 18th - Hypnodrome Theatre
Sean Abley's SOCKET
Shows at 7:00pm & 9:15pm
Q&A's with Producers Doug Prinzivalli & John Carrozza
July 2nd – TBA
July 16th - TBA
July 30th - TBA
August 13th - TBA
Mark your calendar. The complete schedule is coming soon.
Advance tickets are available on the Thrillpeddlers website at www.thrillpeddlers.com Tickets are available at the door - but seating is limited, so advance tickets are HIGHLY recommended. The Hypnodrome is at 575 10th Street, San Francisco. Ample street parking is available.
Dead Channels presents Sean Abley's SOCKET
June 18th at the Hypnodrome: 575 10th Street, San Francisco
On June 18th, Dead Channels' inaugural WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED WEDNESDAYS film series begins with a jolt. We're flying the Rainbow Flag for Pride Month, and we invite you to tune in, turn on and plug yourself in to Sean Abley's electrifying SOCKET.
Sexual obsession, electricity, blacker-than-pitch humor and a touch of Cronenbergian madness - what more could you want? SOCKET plugs you into a new dimension of electrifying science-fiction (and we guarantee you'll never look at an electrical socket the same way again).
Wednesday, June 18th at the Hypnodrome Theatre
Sean Abley's SOCKET
Shows at 7:00pm & 9:15pm: Tickets are $5.00
Post-show Q&A's with special guests: Producers Doug Prinzivalli & John Carrozza
Advance tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets - or through the Thrillpeddlers website. Tickets are available at the door - but seating is limited, so advance tickets are HIGHLY recommended.  www.tlareleasing.com
SIDEKICK out on DVD on June 10th
"Highly recommended" - Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
"A terrifically funny movie" - Chris Knight, National Post
"Solid...Screenwriter Michael Sparaga knows his stuff." - Moriarty, Aint-It-Cool-News
"Talent in spades" - Brandon Judell, New York Theatre Wire
"A refreshingly unique take on the superhero movie" - Bruce Fletcher, Idaho Int'l Film Festival
SIDEKICK is the tale of a mild-mannered computer consultant named Norman Neale. He has two great loves: comic books, and his office's effervescent receptionist, Andrea. Norman spends his days dreaming of her from the isolation of his cubicle - and his nights dreaming of fighting crime from the solitude of his apartment. Then, Norman sees a co-worker with telekinetic abilities….
DEAD CHANNELS 2008: CALL FOR ENTRIES IS NOW OPEN
The 2008 Dead Channels Film Festival will run from October 2 – 5, 2008 in San Francisco, so we're looking for submissions now. Drop us a line at info@deadchannels.com and let us know about your movie. There is no charge to submit your film or video.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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POSTAL, the inimitable Uwe Boll's controversial and hilarious action-comedy spectacle, is returning to San Francisco for a limited engagement on Friday, May 30th. If you missed it when we played it last year, you're in for a treat - seriously. It's really good. And it has monkeys - lots and lots of horny monkeys. And it's also a touching love story of George and Osama's tragic and ill-fated interwoven destinies. And it has horny monkeys.
Dead Channels is proud to present the exclusive Bay Area engagement of our 2007 film festival's Opening Night film - POSTAL
Be sure to catch this future cult classic on a big screen (after a few beers or whatever) with a rowdy crowd at the Roxie - if you dare.
Check out the magnificent trailer - and be amazed:
http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=GnB6FEGOhq8
Opening on May 30th for a limited run at the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco!
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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Dead Channels presents
THE STARSLYDERZ EXPERIENCE!
Wednesday May 7th at the Thrillpeddler's Hypnodrome:
(575 10th Street, San Francisco)
Check out the madness:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUHARVzuqvQ
Tickets are $5.00 and will be available at the door.
Doors are at 7:30pm, and the show starts at 8:00pm
THE STARSLYDERZ EXPERIENCE will move you to tears! Not just another screening of the brilliant masterpiece itself, but an unforgettable multimedia performance that is not to be missed! Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Hot on the heels of an epic StarSlyderz event with The Zoopy Show at a super secret University somewhere in the Northwest, The StarSlyderz train will be rolling back to where it all began! This is the first screening in San Francisco since the World Premiere – which makes it the hometown premiere of the final cut.
Directors/writers/stars Garrin Vincent and Mike Budde join The Zoopy Show at the Hypnodrome to host the San Francisco Premiere of the Final Cut of their underground cult Space Opera! With music by Estrasphere.
"The accumulated snarky-satiric musings of every American ex-teen raised on Star Trek, Star Wars, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Transformers and fantasy videogames have birthed Starslyderz, perhaps the cheesiest -- and giddiest -- sci-fi spoof since 1980's Flash Gordon (or 1974's Flesh Gordon for that matter). Randy, ridiculous futuristic adventure features nonstop low-end f/x and pop culture in-jokes that will resound most among those as young as helmer Garrin Vincent and his collaborators. But even over-30s will recognize Starslyderz as an impressive home-made camp epic that blows away lame Troma-style efforts. Cult status is assured." – Dennis Harvey in Variety magazine
Get there early! Seating is limited!
For more enticing dazzlement and puzzled wondering visit:
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www.starslyderz.com
www.myspace.com/zoopyfunk
www.thezoopyshow.com
www.myspace.com/dead_channels
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The SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN weighs in!
Sci-fi campsterpiece
"The Starslyderz Experience"
By Dennis Harvey, SF Bay-Guardian
PREVIEW OK, so 2007's Transformers was Michael Bay's best movie — which is sort of like saying "best strep throat experience," but let it go. Still, he will never, ever equal the achievement of Starslyderz (2005), an intergalactic adventure made with about 1/7,500th of Transformers's budget (yes, I used a calculator) and several megatons the awesomeness. Premiered here two years ago at the Another Hole in the Head film festival, Garrin Vincent and Mike Budde's homemade epic is the poignant tale of Capt. Johnny Taylor (Brandon Jones), dashing and horny leader of the United Planets of America's elite crime-fighting force. When the evil Gorgon kidnaps the president's daughter, Princess, Johnny and his mates must pursue, ending up on the prison planet Zoopy, where they are forced to fight gladiator-style for the amusement of bloodthirsty puppets and stuffed animals. Song interludes, heavy-metal twins, gleefully cheesy FX, and a whole lot more are thrown into this giddy campsterpiece, which pays snarky homage to everything from Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers (natch), the Power Rangers, anime, TV commercials, 1980s video games and ... er, Biography. Writer-director Vincent, producer-cinematographer Budde, and some furry pals will be on site for a Dead Channels–presented multimedia extravaganza that encompasses a screening of Starslyderz's new-to-SF final cut, "live hyphy Japanimation" by the Zoopy Show, production numbers, reckless acts of audience wetting, and action-figure sales. Perhaps if we are very lucky, an excerpt from Vincent's original Star Wars: The Musical, which was performed at Palo Verdes Peninsula High long, long ago. If not, you can sample that magic in excerpts on YouTube.
THE STARSLYDERZ EXPERIENCE Wed/7, 8 p.m., $5. Hypnodrome, 575 10th St., SF. www.starslyderz.com
Tuesday May 6, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY previews the Experience!
Paging Ed Wood
By Michael Leaverton
The sci-fi epic Starslyderz spent four years in post-production, according to a Variety article. No, Michael Bay wasn't attached. But around 150 F/X people found on Craigslist were — that's where the filmmakers found their talent. They also got that talent to work for free, which is not so surprising when set against another startling fact: They shot the whole thing in a week and change. Nine days! Their total budget was 25 grand. What's going on? Backyard filmmaking, on an awesome, ridiculous scale. The 2006 movie is a sci-fi spoof, a hodgepodge of parody, tribute, and camp, with shitty jokes and some good ones (judging from the trailer, which is all we've seen so far). The graphics have a cheesy sweetness, as do the costumes, which are bright and awful and great. The dialogue is, well, here goes: "Right now, booty is my duty!" The film was a labor of love by writer and director Garrin Vincent, previously known for the three-hour Star Wars the Musical, which he created under the banner of the Palos Verdes Peninsula High School drama department. Yes, he was enrolled.
Tonight, Vincent and producer Mike Budde show up with their film at Dead Channels Presents the Starslyderz Experience.
www.sfweekly.com/search/events.php?oid=1002919
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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www.deadchannels.comwww.myspace.com/dead_channels What's coming up?
Mobsters at the Peep Show; Flaming Sin meets Sweeney Todd; the (420-friendly) Starslyderz Experience; Jay Lee's Zombie Strippers; as well as SASSY!!! (and strange old movies) in the Vortex Room.
Zombie Strippers is based on the classic French existential Theatre of the Absurd play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco… plus it has zombies, strippers and zombie strippers.
Written and directed by Sundance and SF IndieFest veteran Jay Lee (Noon Blue Apples, The Affairs of God, The Slaughter), Zombie Strippers stars the incomparable Jenna Jameson, and the nightmare man himself - Robert Englund, and will be released nationwide on April 18, 2008 – so watch for it in a theater near you.
It's called Zombie Strippers! OK, we know what you're thinking… but it's based on the French existential play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. Would you like to know more? www.sonypictures.com/zombiestripperswww.horror-movies.ca/horror_11203.htmlwww.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=18383popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/04/trailer-blaze-1.htmlwww.canmag.com/nw/10966-zombie-strippers-jenna-jamesonwww.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,349272,00.htmlwww.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20188252,00.htmlIf you're in New York, Boston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Philly, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Madison, Lexington, Charlotte, DC, Columbus (OH), San Diego, Atlanta or Seattle find it in a theater near you. The full schedule at the Lumiere from April 18th – 24th is:
Fri-Sun: 2:30 5:00 7:30 9:45
Mon-Thu: 5:00 7:30 9:45
On Friday, April 18th – at Landmark's NUART in Los Angeles.
Jay Lee will introduce the film and do a Q&A at the 7:30pm, 10pm and midnight shows.
THE LATEST NEWS
Jenna Jameson was just a guest on THE VIEW (of all things). She also appeared on CNN, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and PREMIERE to promote ZOMBIE STRIPPERS!!! Apparently, Hell just froze over.
The Press takes a bite out of ZOMBIE STRIPPERS!
VILLAGE VOICE
Everything you could hope for in a movie called ZOMBIE STRIPPERS. There are better zombie movies out there, and better stripper movies for that matter, but the combination of the two has a weird novelty appeal.
www. villagevoice. com/film/0816,tracking-3,411827,20. html
PREMIERE
ZOMBIE STRIPPERS, a Joe Bob Briggs-worthy piece of nudie-horror camp opening this weekend, is in no danger of being accused of false advertising. Director Jay Lee clearly viewed the film's title as a challenge to be risen to, delivering not just another zombie-splatter pic but something that occasionally plays like the wet dream of a necrophiliac.
www. premiere. com/moviereviews/4523/zombie-strippers. html
CINEMATICAL
In case you weren't sure, ZOMBIE STRIPPERS Is exactly what it sounds like: a horror comedy about zombified strippers. And like most zombie movies, it has political subtext, though you don't have to worry about it being headier than something titled ZOMBIE STRIPPERS should be. Sure, it claims to be based loosely on Eugène Ionesco's classic absurdist play RHINOCEROS and, sure, it features allusions to a number of philosophers, including Camus and Sartre, but really it's dumb and silly and a heck of a good time. Particularly if you're anything but sober.
www. cinematical. com/2008/04/16/review-zombie-strippers
SF WEEKLY
All too often with horror/cult movies, a catchy title masks a low budget and an even lower level of talent, but director Jay Lee (THE SLAUGHTER) delivers absolutely everything you could possibly hope for in a film called ZOMBIE STRIPPERS, with a consistently hilarious, brutal, and titillating mash-up of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD and SHOWGIRLS that actually beats out Mark Pirro's NUDIST COLONY OF THE DEAD for the unofficial title of best naked zombie movie ever.
www. sfweekly. com/2008-04-16/calendar/zombie-strippers
CINEMABLEND
It's foolish to go into a movie like this expecting anything beyond B-level exploitation, but oddly enough, it's the filmmakers who make that mistake here. The movie is riddled with not-so-subtle political jabs and shout-outs to famous philosophers, and the plot, no joke, is drawn from a famous French absurdist play about the dangers of conformity. Writer-director Jay Lee thinks he's really smart, and he wants to make sure you know it too. Luckily, the pseudo-philosophical leanings and weird attempts at allegory don't really get in the way of the important part—the schlock.
www. cinemablend. com/reviews/Zombie-Strippers-3078. html
SF BAY GUARDIAN
The funniest thing about it is a claim that it's inspired by Eugene Ionesco's 1959 absurdist theatre classic Rhinoceros. Indeed, everything most enjoyable about this campy splatstick exercise lies in thinking about it as an abstract rather than actually watching the whole damn thing.
www. sfbayguardian. com/entry. php?entry_id=6126&catid=85&l=1
FANGORIA
Movies about undead go-go girls are best viewed with a crowd, several buddies and, if it's your cup of tea, some brews or booze. So as I entered the screening room, I was hoping for the best (good, trashy fun), but fearing the worst (bad, unfunny trash). Well, ZOMBIE STRIPPERS is more the former than the latter—and most assuredly lives up to its title: there are zombies and strippers aplenty.
www. fangoria. com/ghastly_review. php?id=6309
BLOODY-DISGUSTING
With that title I was expecting Troma levels of absurdity, nudity, and gore..ity. What I most certainly was NOT expecting was to be treated to Nietzsche quotes, lots of female empowerment metaphors, and some fairly obvious but still pretty funny topical humor (a news graphic pointing out that its currently 97 degrees in Alaska, for example). I should have known better; as I entered the screening room I was handed an "Existential Philosophy Primer" along with the press notes, and a Magic 8 Ball that didn't work very well (every question I asked was answered with "Corner of the pyramid shaped answer box").
www. bloody-disgusting. com/review/2192
KILLER MOVIE REVIEWS
A bumpy ride through the conceit of schlock and the pretension of horror flicks to encapsulate the human condition by taking its struggles to illogical extremes.
www. killermoviereviews. com/main. php?nextlink=display&dId=984
Later that evening - elsewhere...
On Saturday, April 19th at 9:00pm, the late-night, subversive film action continues at The Vortex Room (182 Howard at 7th) with Peep Show and other Tales from the J.X. Williams Archive!
Film scholar, curator, and archivist Noel Lawrence will host the evening to give a detailed introduction on the making of the film, and the colorful life of its notorious director. Lawrence will include material from his forthcoming documentary "The Big Footnote", and will also present three of J.X's short films from the late 1960's: "Psych-Burn", "Satan Claus", and "The Virgin Sacrifice".
Directors/writers/stars Garrin Vincent and Mike Budde (with their randy alien puppet pals) will join us at the Hypnodrome (575 10th Street) to host their 420-friendly cult epic! Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
"The accumulated snarky-satiric musings of every American ex-teen raised on Star Trek, Star Wars, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Transformers and fantasy videogames have birthed Starslyderz, perhaps the cheesiest -- and giddiest -- sci-fi spoof since 1980's Flash Gordon (or 1974's Flesh Gordon for that matter). Randy, ridiculous futuristic adventure features nonstop low-end f/x and pop culture in-jokes that will resound most among those as young as helmer Garrin Vincent and his collaborators. But even over-30s will recognize Starslyderz as an impressive home-made camp epic that blows away lame Troma-style efforts. Cult status is assured." – Dennis Harvey in Variety magazine
In an amazing coup for Bay Area theatre, a lost one-act play by the legendary Noel Coward has its American premiere in San Francisco. The Better Half was recently unearthed-after 85 years in limbo-by a pair of Welsh academics. Coward wrote it in 1921, at the age of 22, for London's Grand Guignol Company, which specialized in scandalous comedies and terror plays. It was performed in May 1922 - but never again (until now).
Thrillpeddlers are presenting the Coward play as part of Flaming Sin: London's Grand Guignol. Also on the bill is The Old Women, or A Crime in a Madhouse, Andre de Lorde and Alfred Binet's quintessential Grand Guignol shocker, which will comprise the terror portion of the evening. Set in a French insane asylum for women, the play was notorious for its unsettling mixture of suspense, gruesomeness, and farce.
Thrillpeddlers are also featured in the documentary Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition - a stand-out bonus feature on the 2-disc special edition of Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd.
April 18, 2008
9pm: Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977) (dir: Gianfranco Paroini) - 16mm projection Antonella Interlenghi, Mimmo Craig
11pm: The Holy Mountain (1973) (dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky) Alejandro Jodorowsky, Hector Salinas
April 25, 2008
9pm: The Big Cube (1969) (dir: Tito Davison) - 16mm projection Lana Turner, George Chakiris
11pm: Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) (dir: Inoshiro Honda) Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Noel Lawrence will present "Underworld Cinema: The Life And Work of J.X. Williams" at the Vortex Room on Saturday April 19 at 10pm. The program will include "Peep Show" and several classic shorts from Mr. Williams.
In case you are not already familiar with this "thing of ours", here are a couple articles about my project.
NY Times Profile: http://www.jxarchive.org/enigma2.html
Canal+ Profile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRXf2vfyYs
The J.X. Williams Archive: http://www.jxarchive.org
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/jxwilliams
The Big Footnote: http://www.thebigfootnote.com
He has not presented these films in San Francisco for a number of years and may not do so for a couple more.
Screening Announcement
Vortex Room
1082 Howard, San Francisco, California
Saturday April 19th 10:00 pm (Doors Open 9pm)
415-290-0401
Underworld Cinema: The Life And Work of J.X. Williams
The 2004 program at the Rotterdam Film Festival presented two major cinematic rediscoveries -- the original version of John Cassavettes' "Shadows" and a lesser known but equally significant film by an obscure director who worked under the pseudonym "J.X. Williams". Produced in Copenhagen in 1965, PEEP SHOW chronicles a secret history of the Kennedy administration, revealing a mafia plot to addict Frank Sinatra to heroin.
PEEP SHOW holds a significant place in cinematic history for a number of reasons. Most notoriously, the film's use of pornographic imagery got it banned from several countries and even resulted in the director's brief incarceration in Rome.
More importantly, however, the film tackled a multitude of subjects that did not come in vogue until the seventies. Nearly a decade before Coppola and Scorsese, PEEP SHOW offered an unrelentingly grim and realistic portrait of organized crime, undoubtedly influenced by Mr. Williams' personal experiences as a onetime "gofer" to Johnny Rosselli and other mobsters in Los Angeles.
Released less than two years after the assassination of JFK, PEEP SHOW was also the first film to explore the dark side of Camelot. Besides tracing the tangled web of theories that may have led to the assassination, PEEP SHOW gives a blistering account of the fixing of the 1960 election and the unholy alliance between Joe Kennedy and La Cosa Nostra. (Not surprisingly, PEEP SHOW was funded entirely from European sources).
In addition to screening PEEP SHOW, film scholar, curator, and archivist Noel Lawrence will give a detailed introduction on the making of the film and the colorful life of its director, including a discussion of his forthcoming J.X. documentary "The Big Footnote". We also will present three of his short films from the late 1960's: "Psych-Burn", "Satan Claus", and "The Virgin Sacrifice".
" A spiritual vortex of sub rosa Americana."
-- The New York Times
"Creating a unique body of work from a heady ferment of crime, drugs, politics and porn, J.X. Williams was either a mad genius or a mob stooge. Rediscovery of his films will help cinema historians decide. He could very well be the Missing Link in the secret history of mid-20th century America."
-- Eddie Muller, Programmer, San Francisco Film Noir Festival
"PEEP SHOW has a dark, sleek, seductive look, like polished obsidian -- a dark magnificence that emerges in its revelation of an unspeakable construct of extortion, drugs, and the leveraging of influence in the highest (and lowest) of places." -- Gregory Avery, Nitrate Online
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