Yes, we are looking forward to Robert Rodriguez’s remake of Barbarella due out later this year. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Barbarella we present a special late night, big screen, 35mm blockbuster presentation of the sexiest sci fi flick of the 20th Century.
Free admission in Barbarella-inspired costume! (June 7 screening only)
“This is eye candy from start to finish– *including* one of the most baroque title sequences ever concocted (long before digital technology made this kind of playful titling standard). It’s Franco-Italian design all the way through, a celebration of petroleum products and the best of the lava lamp aesthetic. Hard to tell if it’s a parody of sci-fi or a parody of porn, or same difference is probably the point. There are some very stylized, sadomasochistic uses of Jane Fonda’s long legs, at the same time that Fonda delivers the wittiest lines, in a very witty screenplay by Terry Southern (of Doctor Strangelove fame): “Decrucify my angel immediately!” (Kids, see if you can spot the Chucky in this 1968 precursor.) Skeptics should stay the course to learn what Duran Duran has to do with Barbarella. And Barbarella with the Black Queen. And the Black Queen with the Rolling Stones. And if you don’t know what camp is, then you have to see Barbarella: even if the film is more sublime than camp, a kind of psychedelic Brechtian fantasia.” Essential Sci Fi, J Skinner
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 5th-22nd, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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.
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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.
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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.
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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.
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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.
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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.
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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.
Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 6-19, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.
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