CREATE your own GRINDHOUSE WEEKENDER!
July 2nd 2007 03:30
With Tarantino and Rodriguez’s Grindhouse features due for release in Australia later in the year I came up with an entertaining indulgence for budding festival programmers. The concept is to imagine you are in control of a repertory cinema for a weekend. You’ve been given the Saturday and the Sunday to program two horror/exploitation double feature sessions.
The criteria are simple: select two movies that can be linked by either thematic content or stylistics. You can’t use two movies by the same director. You choose the order; deciding which film to play first, and which movies might suit the Saturday night rather than the Sunday.
You then need to concoct a descriptive “advertising” phrase (a few words) that sums up both movies. The most creative element is to conjure up two suitable, but fake, movie titles; the trailers would play between the two features.
Oh, if only I had access to actual 35mm prints of these and a cinema!! Here are three weekender examples of my own:
The criteria are simple: select two movies that can be linked by either thematic content or stylistics. You can’t use two movies by the same director. You choose the order; deciding which film to play first, and which movies might suit the Saturday night rather than the Sunday.
You then need to concoct a descriptive “advertising” phrase (a few words) that sums up both movies. The most creative element is to conjure up two suitable, but fake, movie titles; the trailers would play between the two features.
Oh, if only I had access to actual 35mm prints of these and a cinema!! Here are three weekender examples of my own:
Saturday night
"The Decadent & Depraved"
feature one:
Caligula (1979)
Intermission featuring trailers for
The Vicious Circle and Untamed
feature two:
Emanuelle in America (1976)
"The Decadent & Depraved"
feature one:
Caligula (1979)
The Vicious Circle and Untamed
feature two:
Emanuelle in America (1976)
Sunday night
"Extra-terror-estrial!"
feature one:
The Thing (1982)
Intermission featuring trailers for
It Came, It Killed, It Conquered and The Xenomorph
feature two:
Alien (1979)
"Extra-terror-estrial!"
feature one:
The Thing (1982)
It Came, It Killed, It Conquered and The Xenomorph
feature two:
Alien (1979)
Saturday night
"Urban Rage"
feature one:
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Intermission featuring trailers for
Ghost City Killers and This Blood is Mine
feature two:
Ichi the Killer (2001)
"Urban Rage"
feature one:
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Ghost City Killers and This Blood is Mine
feature two:
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Sunday night
"Eeeky Freaky Geeky"
feature one:
Phantasm (1978)
Intermission featuring trailers for
Snake Eyed Lady and Cyberotica
feature two:
Videodrome (1982)
"Eeeky Freaky Geeky"
feature one:
Phantasm (1978)
Snake Eyed Lady and Cyberotica
feature two:
Videodrome (1982)
Saturday night
"Excuse me but there’s something chewing on your leg!"
Feature one:
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Intermission featuring trailers for
Chomp! and Snarler’s Lair
Feature two:
Feast (2005)
"Excuse me but there’s something chewing on your leg!"
Feature one:
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Chomp! and Snarler’s Lair
Feature two:
Feast (2005)
Sunday night
"Bloodlust"
feature one:
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Intermission featuring trailers for
Fly by Night and The Glistening
feature two:
The Addiction (1994)
"Bloodlust"
feature one:
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Fly by Night and The Glistening
feature two:
The Addiction (1994)
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Comment by David
Feature 1. Psycho.
Feature 2. Texas Chainsaw Masacre.
Intermission:
1. Home Videos of Freud's Mother by Freud (on penis-cam).
2. Home Videos of Freud by Freud's Mother (on vag-cam).
David ...
PS: I watched Unnamed on SBS Saturday night. I enjoyed that one.
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Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
An "Ed Gein" double whammy, eh? So what's the double feature "ad" phrase gonna be? Methinks something like "Of Flesh & Blood" or perhaps "Southern Gothic" ...?
The Unnamed is an Italian horror-thriller right? Or was it South American? I think I've seen it on SBS too ....
P.S. I see you've royally upset a couple of people over at mindorgasms ... The thin ice of toying with suicide.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
correction my good man: There's the Emmanuelle movies with Sylvia Crystal ... and then there were the Emanuelle movies directed by Joe D'Amato. You'll notice the missing "m" in D'Amato's movies, to avoid being sued. D'Amato's Emanuelle movies starred the exotic beauty Laura Gemser and were generally a lot sleazier. Emanuelle in America is considered the sleaziest and most disturbing of the lot (snuff, bestiality, hardcore inserts). Not to be confused with the softcore, soft focus antics of Sylvia Crystal's series ... I own both.
Comment by David
Sorry, forgot the ad phrase.
Blood on Bone?
As to upsetting people? It's not only gays who need to come out of their closets.
David ...
Now there's a good thought for our horror movie. One titled Dead Skeletons. Doesn't that title conjure up a 1000 images already?
Comment by David
I love this:
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
"Blood on bone". Nice.
Dead Skeletons. There's another fake trailer.
Upsetting people? Par for the course, isn't it? The tone of black humour is so easily lost when it's just words on a screen.
I put a new quote up each month, and I was struggling to find one for July. Then I found the Audition quote. Nice.
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
Feature one:
Herk Harvey Carnival of Souls
Intermission featuring Trailers:
The Devil's Yo-Yo and Brain Frenzy
Feature 2:
Adrian Lynne's Jacobs Ladder
Sunday Night
"Plague of Parasites"
Feature One:
Don Siegel's Invasion of The Body Snatchers
Intermission Trailer:
"The Terror Within" & "Decayed Violations"
Feature two:
David Cronenberg's Shivers
Saturday Night
"Eat Shit and Die"
Salo: 120 days of Sodom
and
Man Behind The Sun
Sunday Night
"Im a big girl now"
Brian De Palma's Carrie
and
Lucky Mckee's May
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
Okay, I'll start with Sunday:
"A fine day for a picnic"
"Them!"
and
"Plan 9 from Outer Space"
Get it, Bryn? JD? What's the connection? You tell me.
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
Forgot that part.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Armenta, the trailers are intended to be fake, you make up the titles!
The link between Plan 9 and Them! ...?? Hmmm, that they're both B-grade b&w schlockers? .... Do ants feature in Plan 9 ..??
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
"Is that Catsup on your Wiener?"
and
"Plastic Utensil Trilogy"
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
Things you normally find at picnics:
Ants (Them!)
annnnd...
Paper Plates!! (Plan 9)
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Get it?
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
They used paper plates wrapped in tinfoil, suspended from fishing line to simulate the alien spacecraft in "Plan 9".