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Details of the amazing Nightmare USA Film Festival
4th Mar 07
 Ever thought that it would be pretty fucking wicked to do a www.zombieclub.com type of day at a cinema somewhere? Yeah us too, but the chances of that happening are, like, nil. Or at least that's what we thought until we got to our monthly fabpress newsletter with news of what could be the best cinema day out you'll ever have. Well, if your twisted sense of humour is anything like ours anyway.
And to add insult to injury, the 5th May is my birthday! What are the chances, eh? Let's just say that we'll be there front and centre...
Nightmare USA Film Festival
Ten Hours of Grindhouse Movie Mayhem!
MAN-EATING PIGS! ... FLAME-THROWING MANIACS! ... PSYCHOTIC LOTHARIOS! ... BLOODY BROTHERS! ... TELEKINETIC DEMONS!
The Location:
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
The Time:
5 May 2007, from 12 noon till 11 p.m.
(first film starts at 12.30 p.m. sharp)
The Tickets:
Tickets are priced at £25 per person, and are available to over-18s only on a strictly first-come-first-served basis.
Nightmare USA Film Festival: Ten Hours of Grindhouse Movie Mayhem! is a combined all-day film festival and book launch for the brand new FAB Press book:
Nightmare, USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
Films to be screened (scroll down for further info about each film):
DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE (Joseph Ellison, 1979)
PIGS (aka Blood Pen) (Marc Lawrence, 1972)
- UK THEATRICAL PREMIERE
VICTIMS (Daniel DiSomma, 1977)
- UK THEATRICAL PREMIERE - subject to confirmation
SQUISH (Frederick Friedel, 2007) - WORLD PREMIERE!
BLOODY BROTHERS (Fred Friedel, 2003)
- WORLD PREMIERE
BOARDINGHOUSE (John Wintergate, 1982)
- UK THEATRICAL PREMIERE
Plus:
# Book signings
# Licensed bar and cafe available all day
# Merchandise stall
# 35mm projection show
Head over to www.fabpress.com to book your tickets now!
The Films...
DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE
Don't Go in the House is Psycho Redux for the video nasty generation... with flame-throwers!
Choice dialogue excerpt:
The voices inside Donny's head: 'She was evil... Now you can do any thing you want to do. You're free!'
Donny: 'Can I play my music loud?'
Trivia of note:
Full uncut 35mm print of this notorious horror movie that was banned as a 'video nasty' in the 1980s. Though most of the so-called 'nasties' are tame in comparison to current ultra-violent horrors such as Hostel and Saw, this film's opening scenes still have the power to shock jaded modern audiences.
PIGS
Pigs is a love story between a psychotic teenage girl and a grave-robbing pig-farmer.
Choice dialogue excerpt:
Miss Macy: 'They're not pigs you know... they're dead people. He feeds those pigs dead people, and then he eats the pigs!'
Sheriff Cole: 'I don't think there's a law against turning dead people into pigs.'
Trivia of note:
UK Theatrical Premiere! The 35mm print we will be showing is actually Blood Pen - an alternative version of the film, with a completely unique, specially-shot, opening sequence not available on any home video format!
VICTIMS
Paulie is coming apart; his every encounter with the opposite sex costs another woman her life, while stirring up memories of his prostitute mother, her brutal pimp, and the sexually abusive hooker who molested him as a child...
Choice dialogue excerpt:
Paulie: 'I guess I went a little ape...'
Hooker: 'A little? You came on like you were tearing up the forest!'
Trivia of note:
UK Theatrical Premiere! Almost impossible to see since its extremely limited early-80s video release, this criminally-neglected gem of terrifying psychological horror will be receiving quite probably its only ever UK screening courtesy of director Daniel Di Somma's personal archive print of the film. Note: Subject to confirmation
BLOODY BROTHERS + SQUISH
Psycho twins separated at birth embark on separate, simultaneous, violent sprees across the Connecticut landscape, all the while closing the distance between each other, and their inevitable respective fates.
Choice dialogue excerpt:
Sandra: 'No... you don't understand. I'm being kidnapped!'
Rapist: 'Well, isn't that a touching story?'
Trivia of note:
WORLD PREMIERE! Put together from the highlights of director Fred Friedel's classics Axe and Date with a Kidnapper, this is full-tilt exploitation filmmaking with no holds barred, and all the fat trimmed from its bones. A relentless, breathless chase through the American rural landscape to find at its conclusion, inevitably, the country's heart of darkness.
But before that, Squish. Squish is the moving tale of an escaped mental patient who hides out in a factory full of huge industrial presses!
BOARDINGHOUSE
A Lothario with psychic powers rents out rooms in his rambling house to pretty college girls, but his plans for a harem are undone by a malevolent force residing within.
Choice dialogue excerpt:
'I cut myself with the apple... er, the knife.'
Trivia of note:
UK Theatrical Premiere! Probably the weirdest American horror film of the '80s (and that's really saying something!), this is filmmaking from another dimension that will leave jaws agape in stunned admiration and bemused befuddlement. We strongly recommend that you enter this screening drunk or stoned, or both, for maximum amazement...
Posted by
Jim
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