Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies, Screenings | Tags: adam rifkin, backseat film festival, bam margera, minghags, the stoned age
Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers will play at the Backseat Film Festival running March 6th-15th in Philadelphia, PA.
From festival director Zafer Ülkücü:
This year’s theme for lucky number seven is Casino, complete with table games, drinking games, old timey concession girls and more! Once again, we’ll be screening the finest in edgy, fun cinema, with a unique blend of shorts, features, documentaries, animation and music videos from all over the world! [...] Besides all the great movies we’re known as the ‘Drinking Man’s Film Fest’ for good reason, the free booze flows like water! (We also have beverages for non-drinkers too!)
We’ve got tons of awesome independently produced Philadelphia theatrical premieres, including Bam Margera’s newest film Minghags and Adam Rifkin’s (Detroit Rock City, The Dark Backward) latest film, National Lampoon’s The Stoned Age. The official selections and screening schedule will be announced in the coming weeks, you can bet that the directors and film’s stars will be at the screenings! And true to form, we’ll be hosting loads of special events and after-parties during the festival at nearby venues.
Sounds like a good time for all concerned, except maybe the neighbours. Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers schedule info will be announced here.
Here’s the complete schedule (minus one Kung Fu movie, TBA) of The Wright Stuff series running in March at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto, curated of course by Edgar Wright. More info at Bloorcinema.com.
Sat Feb 28
7:00 Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
9:30 Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
Sun Mar 1
7:00 Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001)
9:30 Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Ngai Kai Lam, 1991)
Sun Mar 8
7:00 The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman, 1979)
9:30 The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979)
Sat Mar 14
9:45 Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968)
Sun Mar 15
7:00 Dames (Ray Enright & Busby Berkeley, 1934)
9:00 Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974)
Sun Mar 22
5:00 Spaced marathon (Edgar Wright, 1999-2001)
Sun Apr 5
7:00 Kung Fu film TBA
9:30: Drunken Master 2 (Chia-Liang Liu, 1994)
Sun Apr 12
7:00 The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
9:00 Last Night (Don McKellar, 1998)
Be sure to check out The Brood, which has been seen by altogether too few people. Oliver Reed plays a psychiatrist whose patients physically manifest their anxieties in the form of hideous deformities (Not sure what the benefit of such a therapy could possibly be - I’d rather be stressed than stressed and ugly). When he has an affair with prize patient Samantha Eggar, things go horribly, disgustingly, Cronenbergally wrong. And if that doesn’t put you in a good mood, you get to watch Don McKellar’s end-of-the-world movie Last Night afterwards!
Filed under: Miscellany, Movies, Screenings | Tags: bloor cinema, wright stuff, you've got red on you
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the uncut trailer for Don’t play Sat Feb 28 at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto.
They’ll be followed by several weeks of Edgar Wright-hosted screenings of a diverse cinematic smorgasboard including the Bob Rafelson/Jack Nicholson/Monkees collaboration Head, Busby Berkeley choreographed craziness in Dames, Brian DePalma’s rock and roll take on Faust, The Phantom of the Paradise, Cronenberg’s The Brood, Don McKellar’s Last Night, seventies gang The Warriors, sixties gang The Wanderers, and Hong Kong delights Shaolin Soccer and Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki. More info right here, tickets available from The Bloor Cinema.
The ad/mini-movie You’ve got Red on You was the brainchild of Justin Decloux, and features me as a hapless concession stand guy (a job I really used to have! Talk about Altmanesque attention to detail).
Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies, Reviews | Tags: hp lovecraft film festival, videoscope
The latest issue of Videoscope includes a write-up of the HP Lovecraft Film Festival by Joe Pettit. He said of Torturers:
Having more in common with Franz Kafka by way of Monty Python than Lovecraft, Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers presented a short but potent comedic sketch about a young clerk who notices an embarrassing discrepancy in the number of torturers present during his tour of the dungeon.
There was also a picture (above), so I snagged copy despite the fair degree of embarrassment I felt at buying a magazine with this cover:
Filed under: Miscellany, Movies | Tags: bloor cinema, hot fuzz, shaun of the dead
On February 28 the Bloor Cinema will be rolling out Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, the uncut version of the Don’t trailer (presumably it was cut for Grindhouse?), all with director Edgar Wright in attendance. But that’s not all, says the Bloor site:
On select Sundays between March 1st and April 15th, Edgar Wright will select 11 of his favorite films to play at the Bloor Cinema, along with a special marathon screening of his critically acclaimed television series SPACED. A pass will be available to see the entire series + the Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz double bill for $90. More details will be available the weekend of February 20th.
Tickets for the double bill are currently on sale here.
Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies, Screenings | Tags: auburn hills breakdown, carolina theatre, nevermore film festival, treevenge
The Nevermore Film Festival runs this weekend, Feb 20 – 22 2009, at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC. Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers plays as part of a collection of comedy horror shorts called The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon.
Other films on the Horribly Slow Murderer program include the Canadian shorts The Auburn Hills Breakdown, which played on the bill with L7BT at Cinefest Sudbury, and the acclaimed Treevenge from the creators of Hobo with a Shotgun.
Get a printable festival schedule in pdf format here.
Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies, Screenings | Tags: mauvais genre
Filed under: Miscellany | Tags: bloor cinema, hot fuzz, shaun of the dead
Not only will Edgar Wright host a double bill of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz featuring the uncut trailer for Don’t, but he’ll also curating a series of films – Kung Fu and musicals, apparently – during Sundays in March. More at BloorCinema.com.
Filed under: Kill Them and Eat Them, Movies, Reviews | Tags: ragnarok, tomb of anubis
Ragnarok over at The Tomb of Anubis gave Kill Them and Eat Them a review which I must say is pretty spot-on, in my opinion anyway. Here’s an excerpt:
[...] Funny how one good location, or one good actor (because while Sandy McDonald has only this one movie to his credit, he either does a lot of stage work or just knows what the hell he’s doing), or one talented dude in the FX department, can raise a movie above its station and make a seasoned veteran of crap-watching like me take notice. [...] Not only are the set pieces and the plot light-years ahead of KTaET’s super-independent movie brethren in terms of complexity; this flick gives us not only killer mutant cannibals ripping people’s faces off, it gives us not one, but two killer mutant cannibal vs. killer mutant cannibal slugfests. Granted, the monsters look like the retarded incest babies of the Creeper from Jeepers Creepers and one of the hotdog-mouthed fish beasts from Horror of Party Beach, but that’s still way more monster-on-monster action than the first Alien vs. Predator had, goddammit!
Read the whole review here.
Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers | Tags: france, mauvais genre, tours
Legend of the 7 Bloody Torturers will screen at the the Festival Mauvais Genre, April 11-13 in Tours, France. More details soon. Visit the official festival site.
