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SF IndieFest presents
ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL
Horror, Sci-Fi, Mayhem and Merriment
June 5th - 22nd, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center in San Francisco
SF IndieFest unleashes ghosts, madmen, monsters, and futuristic merriment at the 5th annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival running June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco. For tickets or more information please call (415) 820-3907 or click on www.sfindie.com.
If the myriad traumas of daily life in the big city get to be too much, and it seems like only neuron-shattering screams or a trip to an alternate universe will ease your mind, then the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival is just what the mad doctor ordered. Once again Hole Head presents the finest in contemporary horror, horror-comedy, sci-fi and dark fantasy with more than 30 films from America and abroad, all the mayhem that fits on a celluloid print.
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A duo of locals bring death and damnation
Imagine Alameda overrun by zombies and you get an idea of what goes on inside Kevin Tenney’s head. The filmmaker – formerly of Alameda who has since fled to Sacramento – delivers an opus of pus with BRAIN DEAD, the story of six people stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with – what else? – a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their doorstep.
San Francisco filmmaker Robert Pratten gets psycho-sexual with, MIND FLESH a Cronenberg style horror thriller about obsession. The story of a cabbie still nursing the psychological torment of a an event that occurred in his youth, MIND FLESH gets dirty when it’s revealed that this trauma has opened up a portal from his mind to the physical world. As his lurid thoughts become manifest, the planes of reality get disrupted like a bad acid trip. When extraterrestrials show up to help mend the breach in reality, the cab driver must take his taxi to the dark side of his past and confront the evils he faced in his youth.
Asian horror will blow you away - literally
Is the image of Rose McGowan’s machine-gun-sporting leg from GRINDHOUSE’s PLANET TERROR still stuck in your head? Good, then you’ll love THE MACHINE GIRL. Straight outta Japan comes Noboru Iguchi’s pop machinist fantasy of a school-girl’s vengeance. After her family is slaughtered and her arm severed, the heroine of this tale sticks a machine gun in her stump and slaughters everyone in her path.
From Thailand comes ALONE, a tale of twins by filmmaker Banjong Pisanthanakun. Pim and her sister were born conjoined and their strong bond led them to commit to stay together forever. However, the strength of their love led them down a path of dangerous co-dependence and the bitterness that sprang between them resulted eventually in their surgical separation. Pim’s sister doesn’t survive the operation, plunging Pim into a world of guilt. Years later, Pim returns to Thailand from Korea – where she has sought refuge from her pain – and the spirit of her dead sister angrily thrusts herself into Pim’s life.
Five tales of fright and fun from the US and one from the UK, too
Based on the Imperium Comics series, TRAILER PARK OF TERROR, Steven Goldmann’s film of the same name chronicles six troubled high school students and their chaperone, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, on their return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker’s Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere. The hapless group seeks shelter for the night in a seemingly abandoned trailer park they find down the road. However, when the sun sets, it’s not refuge they find. Instead, terror finds them in the form of Norma, a damned redneck reaper with a killer body who dispenses vengeance and death aided by her cursed companions, a bloodthirsty brood of Undead trailer trash.
Childhood trauma, perhaps a theme in this year’s Festival (see MIND FLESH and ALONE), appears once again in Jon Knautz’s JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER. Jack Brooks has a nagging girlfriend, dead-end therapy sessions, and is taking night classes that put him to sleep. Class is about to get more interesting though, as Jack’s new professor is the victim of an ancient curse. Soon enough, Jack is forced to confront his old demons…along with a few new ones.
Bai Ling stars in Pearry Reginal Teo’s THE GENE GENERATION, a gene-bending sci-fi thriller. To wipe out the dregs of society, the government is planning the destruction of the last remaining city on Earth. In its place, they will build a new city, populated only by the best and brightest of the gene pool. As word of this spreads, DNA hackers begin stealing genes to increase their DNA profile. In response, the government hires assassins to wipe out the hackers. Michelle (Ling), one of the assassins, must commit to her duty to the government over her desires for love – a pact that sends her ultimately on a quest for revenge and redemption.
Matthew Kohnen’s WASTING AWAY is a fresh take on the zombie flick. Tired of the constant droning of zombie after zombie as they stumble awkwardly toward their prey? Always wondered what the heck was going on inside the brain of one of those zombies? Ever feel like a zombie yourself? WASTING AWAY is an oddball comedy from the perspective of the flesh munching monsters themselves. Isn’t this the zombie film you’ve always been waiting for?
An undoubtedly true story based on the recently recovered journals of Texan Dale S. Rogers, THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD is the new tale of terror by Duane Graves, produced by the team that brought you THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Set in a rural Texas community where moonshine flows faster than the local river, townspeople are tormented by a ferocious beast inhabiting the woods. Rogers’ journals are the only remaining evidence of the harrowing events, for the first time recreated for the world to witness.
From the UK comes Matthew Hope’s, THE VANGUARD. Set in the post-oil future where the world is controlled by an entity known only as The Corporation, one man lives a solitary life, iImmune to the drug force fed by Corporation scientists that turns humans into primitive, ape-like beings called Biosyns. Hunted by the Biosyns, and by Corporation militants called Trackers, this one man must search across the wilds of the countryside to unearth truths that will shatter The Corporation’s grip on humanity. With his blood as a possible antidote to the toxic Biosyns, he is the last hope for humankind’s existence.
Kentucky Jones lassoes the Brava Theatre
As a terrific coda for two weeks of horror, sci-fi and fantasy, head over to the Brava Theatre June 18 – 21 to catch the Primitive Screwheads (Hole Head’s sibling theatre troupe) and their brand spanking new production of KENTUCKY JONES AND THE CARPET OF DOOM. When terrorists seek a powerful ancient artifact only one man can stop them: the calamitous Kentucky Jones. Witness the hilarity as he battles terrorists, snakes, and other miscellaneous heathens. Audience members be warned: be prepared to duck!
Ticket prices and general information
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco. Advance tickets prices are $10.50 (no service charges!) for films. The Hole Head Pass is $100. The Pass is good for all screenings June 6-12, the Hole Head Launch Party on June 5 and to see the play KENTUCKY JONES AND THE CARPET OF DOOM June 18-22 at Brava. The pass is not good for the repeat screenings June 7 – 19.
Advance tickets are available at www.sfindie.com. Same day tickets are only available at the theater. Pass holders get first priority on seating. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. For all screenings please arrive 15 minutes before show time to assure seating.
The complete lineup of films and events will be announced on May 13th.
For more information please call (415) 820-3907 or click on www.sfindie.com.
Director Uwe Boll has had enough of AWESOME Hollywood action director Michael Bay’s disrespect, and has challenged to the Transformers director to a 12-round boxing match to settle it all.
“Michael Bay responded to my note about him in a very insulting way for me. He said that he doesn’t care about me and this was very insulting because I care about him and I think that with the money he has for his movies, he sucks big time. I think it’s time to meet in the ring actually.
So it’s my message to Michael Bay, Michael, in between your pool parties in LA or your casting sessions with the strippers you should start training now. And I’m sure you look good, you look thin. I saw you at the Hollywood Film Festival, I think you’re a fit guy and you do like private karate bullshitAsia bullshit crap fighting stuff in LA where you think you’re super cool that you do that with your 500 bucks trainer everyday.
So let’s meet in the ring in September or October. Pay-per-view. Mandalay Bay. Las Vegas. Twelve rounds of boxing. Boll against Bay. And it’s also independent against the studio system and I think that this day in Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas we will clear it up who is not only the better director who is also able to fight more for that what he wants.”
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