WHITE HOT 'N' WARPED WEDNESDAYS!
Prepare to be amazed!
Dead Channels, Thrillpeddlers (and the 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; Doors open at 7:00pm
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, western, science-fiction, horror and a few 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 at 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 (2007)
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
www.myspace.com/socketthemovie
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 1972 feature ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE by Michael Kalmen with Rumi essaying the role of ‘Maxine'.
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
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
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
Followed
by the return engagement of BYSSHE
Written
and directed by Lanny Baugniet. 1968 (silent, 55 minutes)
A live
piano score will be performed by V. Vale from RE/Search
(see full description above)
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
www.myspace.com/thelegendofgodsgun
THE
LEGEND OF GOD'S GUN is is one of the most striking debuts in years –
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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