You know what’s better than seeing cool old exploitation movies? Seeing them in big crowds of people who are fucking psyched about them. And thanks to Lars and Zack from the Alamo Drafthouse, people living in LA, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland will have a chance to do just that.
Zack and Lars are the madmen behind Weird Wednesday and Terror Thursday at the Alamo, and they program some of the most bizarre, most psychotronic, most depraved and most delightful movies you’ve never heard of. That aesthetic is what they’re bringing on this tour, which is guaranteed to be the best thing that’s hit any of these cities in years.
The movies they’re bringing are incredible, many of them not available on DVD. I want to follow this tour like a Deadhead, and I’m actually considering going to San Francisco to see Raw Force, which I’ve never seen. And I really, really, really want to see The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger. I mean, how do you not want to see a movie with a title like that?
Here’s the full tour guide and schedule:
What: CINEMAPOCALYPSE
2009, a film screening tour of the West Coast.
When: April 16-25,
2009
Where: Various venues
in
Francisco
below or http://cinemapocalypse.blogspot.com
Film-going residents of Austin,
Texas get a steady diet of classic “exploitation” or “B-Movies,” but now the duo
of programmers behind the famed Weird Wednesday and Terror Tuesday series at the
renowned original Alamo Drafthouse Theaters — and the yearly showcase of
cutting-edge genre movies at Fantastic Fest — are joining forces with Fantastic
Fest and the American Genre Film Archive to bring the same bill of fare to Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The tour is called CINEMAPOCALYPSE
2009 and it consists of 8 nights of screenings in 4 cities at 6 venues. The full
schedule follows this text.
Lars Nilsen and Zack Carlson
regularly present these off-color, faded, scratched obscurities to sell-out
crowds, and the non-profit American Genre Film Archive preserves 35 millimeter
prints of these cinematic treasures which might otherwise be lost. Of the 18
movies that constitute the program, 10 have never been officially released on
DVD. But the real appeal of the series is the entertainment value. Few people
aside from Quentin Tarantino have heard of most of these films but Nilsen and
Carlson have selected only a battle-tested few of the very best titles. All of
these movies are proven audience favorites and a stunning, revelatory and
surprising evening is guaranteed for all.
From Women-In-Prison Films like
CHAINED HEAT to genuine masterpieces like Gary Sherman’s VICE SQUAD; from
little-seen basement horror films like DEADLY SPAWN to jaw dropping mind-erasers
like the kung-fu zombie opus RAW FORCE, this series will open up an alternate
universe of cinematic possibilities for audiences willing to leave the multiplex
behind. The two programmers will provide humorous and informative introductions
for all films.
Unlike most screenings of
“drive-in” classics, these events will NOT feature audience participation aside
from the inevitable laughter and applause. Mystery Science 3000 emulators will
not be allowed to unsheathe their jibes on these evenings. These unique films
will be respected and thus TRULY enjoyed!
CINEMAPOCALYPSE 2009 SCHEDULE
:
Thursday April 16
PSYCHOSEXUAL MANIACS Triple
Feature!
Co-presented with Grindhouse Film Festival
at the New
Angeles
JULIE DARLING
Dir. Paul Nicolas, 1983, 35mm,
100 min, R – NOT ON DVD!
I’ve never had kids and I never
will. I’ve watched enough movies to know they’re bad news. Even if they aren’t
possessed by the devil, they still learn to hate you and all you stand for –
even as they eat all your food and wreck your sex life! If I ever waver in my
determination to remain child-free, I’ll just thread this movie up and feel my
testes retract. In this cinematic curio – kind of a cross between a Lifetime
Original Movie and a Spaghetti Western, an actress named Isabelle Mejias gives a
performance to remember as a daughter with a serious daddy hang up. There’s not
a huge volume of physical violence in the film but the spriritual violence
wrought by the cunning and manipulative teenager is hellishly intense. Starring
Anthony Franciosa as the lucky dad and Teutonic Amazon Sybil Danning as the
girl’s unlucky new step-mom. It’s only appropriate to warn you that the
wrong-meter goes into the red here several times, which is just where I like it!
Director Paul Nicolas also made CHAINED HEAT, my pick for greatest Women In
Prison movie of all time. Be here! (Lars)
POOR PRETTY EDDIE a.k.a. REDNECK
COUNTY RAPE
Dir. Chris Robinson & David
Worth, 1975, 35mm, 92 min, R
This goodtime backwoods holocaust
is both an exploitation masterpiece and a searing assault on all races, genders,
social classes and good taste. Respected singer/actress Leslie Uggams dives deep
into the cinematic netherworld as road-weary celebrity Liz Wetherly who stops
off at a rural hotel for a little R&R…which in this case stands for Rape and
Revenge. After being violated by the psychotic Elvis-obsessed hotel handyman,
Liz finds little sympathy from the sheriff (DR. STRANGELOVE’s Slim Pickens) or
the assorted colorful locals, including Shelley Winters, consummate hillbilly
Dub Taylor and Ted “Lurch” Cassidy. Unable to break free of the community’s
filth-caked grip, she spirals ever deeper into the tangled web of paranoia,
hatred and mental illness that the entire local populace feeds on like an
anguish buffet. Most notable is the film’s inevitably brutal climax, a perfectly
composed extermination of the human spirit like nothing you’ll ever experience
again. (Zack)
PSYCHO FROM
Dir. Jim Feazell, 1981, 35mm, 94
min, R – NOT ON DVD!
Already a cult favorite among the
most discriminating hicksploitation connoisseurs, this cheap, sleazy slice of
lone-star low-life is finally poised to infect the rest of the country. All
Texans are familiar with this film but the very mention of its title is oddly
taboo. It’s a little like the mentally deficient cousin with the weird ears who
lives in the basement and eats bugs. We just don’t talk about it. Well, maybe
now’s the time to start because there’s a lot to love about this movie. The
titular psycho, Wheeler, is one of the most memorable characters in regional
filmdom. John King III deserved an Oscar for his performance as the mommy
obsessed killer with the weird laugh and the unorthodox fried chicken eating
technique. But it may be Tommy Lamey as Wheeler’s toothpick-worrying sidekick
Slick who provides the most memorable moments in the film, notably a long foot
chase that takes up probably a third of the run-time and provides laughs galore
– as you’ll see. PSYCHO FROM TEXAS features more scummy dialogue, K-mart
fashions, mean rednecks, continuity lapses, incongruous BOING sound effects and
country cuties than any film you can name. Do not miss! (Lars)
New
West Beverly Blvd.
www.newbevcinema.com
* * * * * *
Friday April 17
BARREL OF MONKEYS Double
Feature
Co-presented with New
Angeles
SURF 2 – END OF THE TRILOGY
25th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Dir. Randall Badat, 1984, 35mm,
91 min, R – NOT ON DVD!
One of the supreme party romps of
the genre’s defining decade, here is a No Rules celluloid powerhouse that
doubles as a 300-fisted beachfront avalanche of insanity! Honestly, this
greatest-mohawked-surfer-zombie-comedy-ever-made is best summarized by
writer/director Badat: “Menlo Schwartzer – the geekiest mad scientist of all –
wants to rid the world of surfers by transforming them into garbage-ingesting
zombie punks! But no way dude can he stop their most awesome party!” SURF II
(no, there was not a SURF 1) packs more early ‘80s drive-in mania into one movie
than even a brain in the final stages of rabies can handle. Drooling undead new
wave boneheads, valley girls, electronically transgendered geekazoids in
underwater fortresses, the guy who played everyone’s favorite corpse in WEEKEND
AT BERNIE’S, spazztastic video game combat and an appearance from actor Fred
Asparagus as “Fat Boy # 1”! Speaking of the stellar Z-caliber cast, this picture
sports a career-best lead performance from Supreme Alpha Nerd Eddie Deezen, as
well as surprise roles from Ruth Buzzi, Carol Wayne and BLAZING SADDLES’ Cleavon
Little. Combine with the pogo-inducing soundtrack by Oingo Boingo and The Circle
Jerks and you have the most entertaining IQ-remover The Video Age ever shat out!
Totally retardular!!! (Zack)
CARNIVAL MAGIC
Dir. Al Adamson, 1981, 35mm, 85
min, “G” – NOT ON VHS, DVD or ANYTHING ELSE!
Alright, it’s time to get
serious. Very serious. Because this is possibly the rarest movie on the entire
planet. As far as we can determine, only one print exists of this thing and
we’ve got it. And we’re going to share it with you. If you’re a fan of the
cinematic badlands, you’ve seen some pretty strange things. But unless you’ve
guzzled embalming fluid on the moon with Bigfoot you’ve never seen anything
quite as awe-inspiringly jacked-up as this “inspirational” kids’ movie from the
director of SATAN’S SADISTS and BLACK SAMURAI. Why anyone thought this was
appropriate for children we’ll never understand. Granted, it might be
educational for kids to see the lion tamer gratuitously slapping his girlfriend
around or a teenage girl apparently giving an ape hand-relief (we didn’t believe
it at first either), we don’t know if we’d be prepared to field Junior’s many
questions about the unsavory goings-on in the cheapest, most depraved carnival
this side of Tod Browning’s FREAKS. (Lars)
New
West Beverly Blvd.
www.newbevcinema.com
* * * * * *
Saturday April 18
for the Arts in
Francisco
MR. SCARFACE
Dir. Fernando Di Leo, 1976, 35mm,
85 min, R
One of the most entertaining
Italian crime movies ever made, as should be expected from neglected auteur
Fernando Di Leo. Di Leo made some of the toughest, funniest crime movies ever.
He was the master of tasteless ultraviolent comedy. He also had a sense of story
and characterization that even Howard Hawks would envy. Usually his films
feature a tough hombre who gets caught up in a struggle between two mafia
factions and gets over on the mobsters using superior intelligence and nerves of
steel. Along the way, Di Leo creates brutal and hilarious poetry among the
bloodshed. Here, Jack Palance plays a bad, bad man who runs a neighborhood crime
syndicate in
escalates to an all-out war he proves no match for a couple of nervy slacker
kids with a dune buggy and an over-the-hill consigliere (the great Vittorio
Caprioli) who still remembers the old days and the old ways. While not a comedy
as such, this film contains more laugh out loud scenes than all but the very
best comedies. But it also delivers shocking, intense violence and a pungent
ambience redolent of sleazy pool halls and greasy hair tonic. I can’t recommend
this movie highly enough. Pulp art at its very best. (Lars)
CHAINED HEAT
Dir. Paul Nicolas, 1983, 95 min,
R – NOT ON DVD!
The best women-in-prison movie in
the history of the world. Spend an hour and a half locked in a squalid cage with
a few dozen sweaty bad girls! Sound like fun? You bet it does! This is pure
women-in-prison exploitation with all the catfights, steamy shower scenes and
deviant sexuality you can handle. Maybe more! Linda Blair plays the new fish on
the cellblock. With ubiquitous ’80s Amazon Sybil Danning and CLEOPATRA JONES
star Tamara Dobson as warring inmates. Kinky Stella Stevens cracks the whip as
the captain of the guards and scuzzy John Vernon plays the warden (who has a hot
tub in his office). Sharp-eyed viewers will also recognize the great Henry
Silva. Others may disagree but I think this is a great first-date movie (but be
sure to bring enough for her cabfare home just in case). Either she’ll love it
or she’ll flee. What better way to separate the wheat from the chaff? After all,
who wants to get stuck with a good girl? (Lars)
Mission St
(at
& 3rd)
www.ybca.org
* * * * * *
Sunday April 19
TUFF Quadruple (!)
Feature
at the Midnites For Maniacs series at The
Castro in
Francisco
VIGILANTE
Dir. William Lustig, 1983, 35mm,
90 min, R
In the post-DEATH WISH era of
action exploitation, many a hard-working everyman was given the chance to set
things straight using every firearm within reach. Of the rich array of
middle-aged homicide fantasies, this raw, feral streetwar collision is the most
teeth-grittingly severe. Directed by top-drawer NY scum specialist William
Lustig (MANIAC COP) and starring Fred Williamson (BLACK CAESAR) and Robert
Forster (ALLIGATOR, MEDIUM COOL), who puts in a genuinely incredible performance
as a troubled blue-collar schmoe pushed to the brink of human endurance. When he
finally lashes out, no lowlife is spared from his four-wheeled, double-barreled,
white-knuckled wrath. This one’s for the toughest, leatheriest, ass-kickiest
score-settlers out there, so don’t come cryin’ to me when the sweat and blood
get in your eyes. If you can’t enjoy watching a 4-year-old kid take a point
blank shotgun blast, that’s your hang-up. (Zack)
RAW FORCE
Dir. Edward D. Murphy, 1982,
35mm, 86 min, R – NOT ON DVD!
Once this show is over, you’ll be
tearing your eyes out of your head and setting them ablaze. Because you have
NEVER seen such a brain-blasting bonesmasher as the epochal omegawave that is,
was and always will be RAW fucking FORCE!!! If you think you’ve been entertained
in the past, here is a white-hot scholarship to
what’s inside, goddammit. Blue-skinned undead samurai? Check! Cannibalistic
rump-chasing monks? Yes sir!! Drunken kung-fu yacht party? To the max!!!
Wall-eyed flesh-trading seaplane pilot with a Hitler moustache? Man ohhh MAN!!!
In absolute honesty, all this is just the tip of the trashberg! Blowtorches
blaze, teeth fly, bullets zing, dialogue is botched and cages full of virgins
are sent to their heartless demise! So packed with action, you’ll have to blink
every 3 seconds to keep your eyes from catching on fire! The legendary Cameron
Mitchell (THE TOOLBOX MURDERS) semi-stars in this Filipino/American
co-production that would have brought the world to its knees if it wasn’t
200,000 YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME! If you see just one movie in your entire life,
it better be here, now, tonight: RAW FORCE! If you’re blind, deaf and comatose,
only one film will STILL kick your ass through the wall: RAW FORCE!! Look, I
don’t care if you’re reading this at a funeral…scream it out loud right now:
RAAWWW FORRRCE!!! (Zack)
ESCAPE FROM
Dir. John Carpenter, 1981, 35mm,
99 min, R
Snake Plissken is the ULTIMATE
Sci-Fi Male. Why? Because he’s played by the Ultimate Real Life Male: a man
named Kurt Russell, who was at the height of his effortlessly steely machismo
when he teamed with ultimate filmmaking Badass John Carpenter for the first (and
many say greatest) of several flawless collaborations. So if you love BIG
TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA and THE THING – and you sure as hell do – this is the
unshaven, post-apocalyptic whamblaster that started it all! The year is 1997
A.D. Cold-blooded criminal Snake has 24 hours to enter the lawless, bloodthirsty
prison island known as “
(HALLOWEEN’s Donald Pleasance) from the clutches of a crazed gang leader played
by the late, great Isaac Hayes! Along for the explosive destruction, mayhem and
grit are Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Van Cleef and Ernest Borgnine. A beautiful ’80s
sci-fi masterpiece absolutely slampacked with testosterone-fueled violence and
tough guy rage. Watching this movie on the big screen will make you a true man,
even if you’re a woman! (Zack)
LADY TERMINATOR
Dir. Jalil Jackson, 1988, 35mm,
87 min, R
White people have been too stupid
to notice, but the nations of the South Pacific have provided the world with
some of its most neck-snappingly exciting movies. This isn’t a recent
development…Filipino and Indonesian exploitation films have held a firm grip on
these nations’ entertainment industry and output since the glory days of Eddie
Romero, the bold auteur responsible for the
trilogy and fistfuls more of the finest
Seas
logic and feasibility in a relentless drive to distill maximum entertainment,
and in no film has this impressive approach triumphed more wholly than Lady
Terminator. After a man steals a snake from a sex witch’s vagina, she threatens
to exact revenge on his great great granddaughter. 100 years later, a
scuba-diving female anthropologist is violated by the same naughty snake,
causing her to unleash a wave of shirtless, lazer-eyed homicide in a kill-crazy
goddamn rampage. And it’s not all white hot bulletry; Lady T’s favorite
non-firearm method of execution involves a hearty chomp from her carnivorous
vagina. In fact, genital terror is expanded to new dimensions throughout this
film. Male crotches are riddled with bullets, mangled, eaten and worse. Would
you believe this vicious she-demon even pauses to give a gunned-down corpse a
kick in the dingle? What a totally cruel supernatural tramp!! (Zack)
The Castro Theatre
Castro St
www.castrotheatre.com
* * * * * *
Wednesday April 22
Grindhouse Film Festival at the Hollywood
Theater in
Cinemapocalypse VS. Grindhouse Film
Festival in TRAILER WAR!!!
We’re setting our most violent,
reprehensible and ungodly 35mm explosives for the absolute supreme Battle of
Celluloid Insanity.
kingpin Dan Halsted will be going head-to-head with the visiting exploitationeer
duo of the Cinemapocalypse Tour to present a dehumanizingly fierce barrage of
classic film trailers featuring the very excruciatingest horror, kung fu, scifi,
prison, nudie, cannibal, manimal, exploitation, hicksploitation,
blacksploitation and sploitationsploitation! These miniature bursts of mankind’s
most twisted and unhealthy brainwaves are destined to transform you into the
next stage of human life after dyn-o-miting you through the back of the theater.
Make no mistake…this show will pummel your fragile reality right in the
nuts!
The Hollywood Theater
N.E. Sandy Blvd
www.grindhousefilmfest.com
* * * * * *
Thursday April 23
HICKSPLOITATION Double
Feature
at the The Grindhouse Film Festival at the
Street
GATOR BAIT – NOT ON DVD!
Dir. Ferd & Beverly
Sebastian, 1974, 35mm, 88 min, R
Picture yourself on a state
highway in the rural south in 1974. In the distance an apparition flickers on a
drive-in screen. It’s a beautiful woman with long red hair and skin the color of
mother’s milk. She lifts a 12-gauge to eye level and squeezes the trigger. It’s
not a hallucination. It’s Claudia Jennings, a common sight on drive-in screens
throughout the country in the 70’s and that rarest of things, a genuine female
action star. The movie is GATOR BAIT, a huge hit that kept drive-in audiences
coming back again and again. Like most movies that made it big on the chitlin’
circuit, GATOR BAIT really delivers. The story of a sexy swamp rat named Desiree
who’s half woman and half savage, it features the scariest inbred hillbillies
outside of the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and a revenge plot that builds to a
thundering, foot-stomping climax. As an actress Claudia Jennings doesn’t have a
great deal of range, but then neither does a sawed off shotgun. Under the right
circumstances both can be devastating. Jennings, who was a Playboy Playmate of
the year, had an outstanding career in low-budget exploitation films before
dying in a car crash at age 29. There’s never been another one like her. GATOR
BAIT is a true drive-in classic. Don’t miss it. (Lars)
PSYCHO FROM
Dir. Jim Feazell, 1981, 35mm, 94
min, R – NOT ON DVD!
Already a cult favorite among the
most discriminating hicksploitation connoisseurs, this cheap, sleazy slice of
lone-star low-life is finally poised to infect the rest of the country. All
Texans are familiar with this film but the very mention of its title is oddly
taboo. It’s a little like the mentally deficient cousin with the weird ears who
lives in the basement and eats bugs. We just don’t talk about it. Well, maybe
now’s the time to start because there’s a lot to love about this movie. The
titular psycho, Wheeler, is one of the most memorable characters in regional
filmdom. John King III deserved an Oscar for his performance as the mommy
obsessed killer with the weird laugh and the unorthodox fried chicken eating
technique. But it may be Tommy Lamey as Wheeler’s toothpick-worrying sidekick
Slick who provides the most memorable moments in the film, notably a long foot
chase that takes up probably a third of the run-time and provides laughs galore
– as you’ll see. PSYCHO FROM TEXAS features more scummy dialogue, K-mart
fashions, mean rednecks, continuity lapses, incongruous BOING sound effects and
country cuties than any film you can name. (Lars)
The
Clinton St
www.clintonsttheater.com
www.grindhousefilmfest.com
* * * * * *
Friday April 24
PSYCHOPATHS UNLEASHED! Triple
Feature
at the The Grand Illusion Cinema in
VICE SQUAD
Dir. Gary Sherman, 1982, 35mm, 97
min, R
A highly recommended descent into
the sulfurous pit of hell known as
Hauser burst onto the scene with his intense, over-the-top performance as the
psychotic killer pimp Ramrod. Seething and ranting, a homicidal twisted nerve,
Hauser is incredible. This is his show all the way, he even sings the theme
song, “Neon Slime!” Along the way, Hauser jumps the fence from villain into
full-on monster territory, making VICE SQUAD not only one of the most exciting
films you’ll ever see, but one of the scariest as well. In this truly grim urban
fairy tale, a hooker named Princess (Season Hubley) must make it through a long
night in a very dark forest (the streets of L.A.) without being gobbled up by
the big bad wolf (Hauser), who himself is being chased by the mighty hunter (the
LAPD detective who earlier allowed him to escape.) Pure entertainment from the
gifted director of RAW MEAT and DEAD AND BURIED. (Lars)
NIGHT WARNING a.k.a. BUTCHER,
BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER
Dir. William Asher, 1983, 35mm,
96 min, R – NOT ON DVD!
Listen up…this movie has the best
opening scene in film history. Absolutely, without a doubt, no first 5 minutes
of any other feature are more rip-rocious than what you’ll see tonight on this
screen. By the time the opening credits roll, you’ll be peeling your fingernails
out of the armrests. And here’s the kicker: the best is yet to come! Susan
Tyrrell stars in her greatest performance as a tragic, spastic auntie with a
more-than-healthy appreciation for her orphaned teen nephew. When folks get too
close to this happy family, heads start to roll. Enter Joe Carlson (Bo Svenson),
a tough-as-rusty-nails police detective who utters the word “faggot” with
practically every breath. Easily among the most perfect and underappreciated
slashers of the golden ‘80s. If you don’t go nuts for this one, get the hell out
of my house. (Zack)
TOURIST TRAP
Dir. David Schmoeller, 1979,
35mm, 90 min, PG
Terror nerds are well aware that
the American road holds myriad dangers. Many a frenzied sasquatch, invisible
space vampire and/or cannibalistic madman has transformed our turnpikes into his
personal open-air slaughterhouse, but in the great Halls of Highway Homicide, no
film dares examine the darkest precipices of rural insanity like the crushingly
inventive TOURIST TRAP. Rectangle-jawed screen ham Chuck “The Rifleman” Connors
plays mysterious Mr. Slausen, a dubious yokel who leads a life of quiet
isolation in the woods. When a couple carloads of recreation-hungry youths
happen across his private property, Slausen introduces them to a bold new
cavalcade of nightmares including — but not limited to — autonomous singing
mannequins, gender-bent nutsoids and a telekinetic knife-throwing fiend.
Goddamn! You may have watched a thousand car-broke-down-in-a-maniac’s-front-yard
movies, but until you’ve seen TOURIST TRAP, you’re still wearing your horror
Huggies. (Zack)
The Grand Illusion Cinema
50th St
www.grandillusioncinema.org
* * * * * *
Saturday April 25
at the The Grand Illusion Cinema in
THE SIX THOUSAND DOLLAR NIGGER
a.k.a. SUPER SOUL BROTHER
Dir. Rene
min, R – NOT ON DVD!
We can’t believe the title
either. But that’s why they called him Wild Man Steve. We all love Rudy Ray
Moore but he wasn’t the only comedian working the chitlin’ circuit back in the
day. Get ready to laugh your ass off at Wild Man Steve. Wild Man Steve can say
anything and make it funny. He has a slow, stoned delivery that makes even the
stupidest dirty jokes gut-bustingly hilarious. In a way, Wild Man Steve is the
ultimate cult comedian and this is an actual WILD MAN STEVE STAR VEHICLE! It’s
about a midget mad scientist (with a full-sized D-cup girlfriend) named Dr.
Dippy who helps the mob develop a formula that makes users super-strong,
bulletproof, and, after about two days, super-dead. Obviously it’s hard to get
sensible people to sign up for this treatment, so the mobsters grab the nearest
wino, played to perfection by Wild Man Steve. Steve is hilarious, ad-libbing
like crazy, stepping all over his costars’ lines. He even gives a little speech
in favor of legalizing pot that’s a small masterpiece of reason and logic. If
you are easily offended please stay away from this theater! (Lars)
THE DEADLY SPAWN
Dir. Douglas McKeown, 1983, 35mm,
81 min, R
McKeown’s low-budget backyard
scifi terror epic is the defining accomplishment in the mighty ‘80s Homemade
Horror genre. An alien meteorite unleashes a hideous, carnivorous beast that
gorges insatiably on the unwitting denizens of a
exponentially while it casts off knife-faced leechlets to further the
annihilation. No one is off limits; old ladies and adolescents and everyone in
between are all fair game for this unstoppable eating machine. From unbelievable
creature creations to some of the best dialogue ever captured, no shoestring
production before or since has contained a fraction of the fearless filmmaking
on display here. Shot for the cost of a new washer/dryer combo, THE DEADLY SPAWN
is a bona fide, undeniable fuck-you to major studio exploitation crammed with an
impossible amount of ambition, masterful latex effects and unbridled,
flesh-ripping satisfaction. (Zack)
The Grand Illusion Cinema
50th St