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 [...]
Fresh on the heals of his visit to the Hypnodrome to catch our Hypnodrome Head Trips show, film director Guy Maddin is featured in today’s New York Times. His latest film, the silent Brand Upon The Brain, incorporates live musicians, singers, and actors who perform on stage as the “soundtrack.” A live screening/peformance of Brand [...]
The highly anticipated (at least in my household) Tarantino/Rodriguez double feature GRINDHOUSE opened this weekend, and although it came in 4th at the box office (behind an Ice Cube family comedy?!), it’s far and away my favorite movie since, well… KILL BILL. I was lucky enough to see it at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater, an [...]
Perez Hilton has posted the first public glimpse of Johnny Depp in the title roll of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, currently in production in London. Sweeney Todd is the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Grand Guignol Broadway musical about a throat-slashing barber and his meat-pie-making accomplice (Helena Bonham Carter). Variety is reporting the film [...]
