Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies, Screenings | Tags: best of fest, hp lovecraft, Seattle
The HP Lovecraft Best of the Fest Seattle runs March 20 – 26 at the Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St. Seattle WA USA, phone # (206) 523 – 3935.
7pm
Casting Call of Cthulhu, Late Bloomer, The Book Dealers, Eel Girl, Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, The Canal, Maxwell’s Mind, Experiment 18, Between the Stars, Call of Cthulhu
9pm
The Outsider, Cool Air, AM 1200
Director David Prior (AM 1200) will be on hand for a Q&A on Saturday Mar. 21.
All films play daily at 7pm & 9pm; additional shows Sunday at 3pm & 5pm.
Opening Night Gala on Saturday. Doors at 6pm, films at 7pm. Advance gala tickets available here.
Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies, Screenings | Tags: andrew migliore, call of cthulhu, david prior, Grand Illusion, hp lovecraft film festival
On March 20-26 Seattle’s Grand Illusion cinema will host a ‘Best of the Fest’ selection from the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. A slate of short films including Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers will play nightly at 7pm. These will precede a screening of The Call of Cthulhu, a fantastic silent film made in 2005, but styled as if it were made in the 1920s, when the story was originally written:
Director David Prior (AM 1200) and Andrew Migliore (founder of the Lovecraft Film Festival) will introduce Saturday night’s screening. Get the full info here or here. You choose!
Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies, Screenings | Tags: facts in the case of mr hollow, festival mauvais genre, jean rollin, la nuit des horloges, the werepig
Several visually inventive films will screen at the Festival Mauvais Genre judging by this trailer that includes a couple clips from Torturers. The short screens on Monday April 13th at 1:30pm along with The WerePig, The Facts in the Case of Mr. Hollow, and nine other shorts in the International Short Film Competition. Get the full slate here.
Other films on offer include Tod Browning’s The Unknown starring Lon Chaney, playing with live musical accompaniment, and La Nuit des Horloges, the latest feature from Jean Rollin, accompanied by a screening of his 1968 work Le Viol du Vampire (aka Queen of the Vampires). Full festival info at www.festivalmauvaisgenre.com.
Filed under: Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Movies | Tags: backseat film festival, minghags, the stoned age
The 7th annual Backseat Film Festival screens 14 features plus 50 shorts and music videos, and most importantly there’s free booze at screenings courtesy festival sponsor Pabst Blue Ribbon! Premieres include Bam Margera’s Minghags the Movie and Adam Rifkin’s National Lampoon’s The Stoned Age (sounds like that Pabst will come in handy).
Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers plays Sunday March 8 at 4pm as part of Shorts Program II. Get the full schedule info here.
The new book The Gore Compendium is “a personal selection of gore, splatter and zombie-madness” movie reviews limited to 666 hand-numbered copies. I snagged copy #44, from which I’ll share their review of Flesh Freaks:
[...] Conall Pendergast – a young Canadian filmmaker – didn’t had the budget, nor a decent cast, but he did had the guts to create an ambitious movie that stands out of the zero-budget fright flicks. The story is entertaining, the acting is quite good [...] and sure, some of the fx work while others look pretty crappy, but at least this guy dared to work with full sized props instead of using grey-painted folks as cheap looking zombies. [...] The movie was shot on digital video in Canada and some parts at Central America where he filmed some wild animals to use as footage in true Mattei style. Now give this guy a budget, some good equipment, a decent cast, and let him do this one again! [sic]
Thanks, Z & M. The Gore Compendium is a great little read but unfortunately it’s currently available only in Europe. For more info check out the website and the myspace page.
