Tonight in L.A. - Special Co-Presentation of the Cinefamily with Something Weird and the Grindhouse Film Festival
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Tuesday • October 12th, 2010
Special Co-Presentation of the Cinefamily with Something Weird and the Grindhouse Film Festival
Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 655-2510
Admission: $12.00
Special Guests: Frank Henenlotter, Jimmy Maslon and Mike Vraney
8:00pm
HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS: THE GODFATHER OF GORE (2010) Directed by Frank Henenlotter and Jimmy Maslon Produced by Mike Vraney Featuring Herschell Gordon Lewis, David F. Friedman, Mal Arnold, Ray Sager, John Bloom, Jerome Eden, Bunny Yeager and John Waters
Frank Henenlotter, one of our favorite directors and the man behind classics like Basket Case and Brain Damage, is back with the definitive portrait of Herschell Gordon Lewis, one of the godfathers of exploitation movies! Featuring John Waters, drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs, Lewis’s legendary early producer David F. Friedman, Herschell himself, and testimony from the people who were actually there! You'll witness Lewis’s beginnings in the bare-naked innocent era of “nudie cuties,” just before he shocked the world with Blood Feast, the first ever gore film -- and then you’ll be treated to a madcap whirl of his notorious, controversial career, featuring Two Thousand Maniacs!, She-Devils On Wheels, Blast-Off Girls, Just For The Hell Of It and the incredible The Wizard Of Gore! Experience a decade of motion picture madness, with tons of film clips, rare outtakes, and unintentional hilarity, as The Godfather of Gore leaves you laughing and screaming at some of the most amazing movies to ever play American theaters!
10:00pm
TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! (1964)
Written and Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis Produced by David F. Friedman Starring Connie Mason, Thomas Wood (aka William Kerwin), Jeffrey Allen, Shelby Livingston and Ben Moore
This indisputable masterwork from H.G. Lewis pits a carload of Yankee tourists (including Playboy pinup Connie Mason, one of our finest American worst actresses) against an entire town of vengeful Southerners with a bloody supernatural secret. Lewis’s follow-up to the smash hit Blood Feast finds just the right mixture of black humor, infectious music, and harrowing bloodshed, with three murder scenes involving a switchblade, a boulder, and the world’s nastiest barrel roll that have all become iconic horror moments. Audiences had no idea what to expect when this gore-sprayed sickie unspooled at drive-ins across the country, and today it still remains a shocking, unforgettable experience, despite its influence on everything from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to a pair of recent sequel/remakes. Still, there’s nothing quite like this deep-fried, banjo-pluckin’ original to get your feet tappin’ and the blood pumpin’.
Directors Frank Henenlotter and Jimmy Maslon along with producer Mike Vraney will be here in person for a Q&A in-between the films! Plus, DJ Jimi Hey will be spinning tunes before and in-between the films!=