Three nights only! February 12, 13 & 14 @ 8:00 At the Hypnodrome, 575 10th Street, San Francisco $25 – $35 general admission $69 for “Shock Box” seats (admits two) Tickets are available at BrownPaperTickets.com. Where can San Franciscans revel in an oddball weekend that alternatively celebrates the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Friday the [...]
Thrillpeddlers will be performing with the fabulous Cockettes as part of New York’s Howl Festival, September 6 – 10, 2008. It’s our first appearance on the East Coast, and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ll be performing pieces from our recent “Theatre of the Ridiculous Festival” as well as The Cockettes legendary “Pearls Over Shanghai.” [...]
Interesting Grand Guignol items are few and far between on Ebay these days, so it’s pretty exciting (to me, anyway) when several show up in one week: Original Theatre du Grand Guignol Program from 1952-53 From the listing: ANOTHER FABULOUS FIFTIES FRENCH THEATRE PROGRAM- “DU PLOMB CES DEMOISELLES”. OF COURSE WE HAVE THE GREAT VINTAGE [...]
Continuing our series of White Hot ‘N’ Warped cinema, Dead Channels brings us the mind-bogglingly awful B-grade (D-grade?) sexploitation shocker She Freak. This 1967 “update” of Tod Browning’s 1932 classic Freaks was directed by Byron Mabe and written by David F. Friedman (best known as the producer Herschell Gordon Lewis’ seminal gore films 2000 Maniacs [...]
The SF Weekly published critic Chloe Veltman’s formal review of our show “Flaming Sin: London’s Grand Guignol” this week (we’ve previously linked to her blog post about the show). Her review is the kind of thoughtful, in-depth look at our work that’s been all too rare over the years. While we certainly have fans among [...]
Attention all Grand Guignol collectors! A copy of the March 1950 edition of the men’s pin-up magazine SEE is up for sale on eBay. This issue features a rare article about the Grand Guignol theatre. It was one of the first articles I found when I started my research in the mid 1980s, and has [...]
A very special event at our Hypnodrome theatre on Sunday, April 20th, 7:00pm. Hosted by Rumi Missabu of the Cockettes and featuring many special guests. Sure to be a wild night!
The reviews are coming in for our current show “Flaming Sin: London’s Grand Guignol” and we’re, well… thrilled. We had no idea how people would react to an evening of Noel Coward sophistication, Grand Guignol excess, and a very “blue” floor show, but it looks like we’re not the only ones crazy enough to think [...]
We’re just one day away from the release of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd DVD, and the movie blogs are buzzing about it. Thrillpeddlers are featured in the documentary Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition, which seems to be a stand-out among the DVD’s bonus features. From Dread Central: Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition, takes a look [...]
If you weren’t able to tune into yesterday’s interview of Richard Hand and Eddie Muller on KALW’s “Open Air,” we’ve got you covered. Here’s the full audio of their segment, hosted by Alan Farley. You can listen to the program from your browser by clicking the “play” button on the audio player below, or use [...]
