I think I teased the lineup for The Greensboro Summer Fest Massacre Part 2 last night and then forgot to follow up on it. There are two reasons stemming from last night's piece as to why:
1. I like to keep things in flux until I really lock down some movies.
2. Partially, I'm really hoping somebody knocks my socks off with a VHS surprise.
Since I haven't actually finalized anything that would last the whole weekend, I thought I'd share some ideas I've been tossing around with others. I'll address the pros and cons of the films below.
Chopping Mall - partying teens break into a mall overnight and run afoul of the Killbots patrolling the premises.
The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman - I can't tell you any more than this trailer can.
Dog Soldiers - Neil Marshall's (The Descent) debut film balances a fine line between horror and laughs when a military exercise turns up werewolves.
The Prowler - The slasher movie Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, Creepshow) is most proud of. It involves a killer with a pitchfork.
Friday the 13th Part 3 (in 3-D) - Featuring a whole host of bad 3-D effects, including laundry pole, joint passing, and spear-gun attack. Also the film where Jason gets his hockey mask.
My Bloody Valentine 3-D - I haven't watched it yet but the word is the film is a hoot for large groups and must be seen in 3-D.
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus - Cranpire says it's fest worthy, so it has a spot in the lineup.
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires - Hammer Horror meets Shaw Brothers Chop Sockey when Dracula heads East and Van Helsing enlists the help of kung fu warriors to stop him.
Dracula A.D. 1972 - exactly what it sounds like. May play as a double feature with Blacula.
Alien Apocalypse - Bruce Campbell vs Giant Termites in the future. This Sci-Fi Channel original is even cheesier than it sounds.
Night of the Comet - Space Zombies vs Valley Girls. Need I say more?
Zombie Lake - Cranpire recommended this. I think it's about dead Nazis but is not Dead Snow.
Uncle Sam - Evil Uncle Sam. Nuff said.
The first and major problem that I have is that a lot of these movies aren't horror comedies, which is what Summer Fest is all about. I don't mind scaring the good attendees too, but the July marathon is all about bringing in folks who might not normally sit in for two nights of horror movies. I like to open things up a bit and soften scaredy cats so they might come back for the really creepy stuff in October.
The other problem is that three movies I really want to show - Night of the Creeps, Terrorvision, and House of Long Shadows - aren't readily available. I'm also tempted to bring out old favorites like Slither and Night of the Lepus for repeat performances but want to leave open the possibility of discoveries. After all, that's how we found Teeth and Blood Car during fests past. Or Cranpire could bring something like Dead Heat and surprise us all again!
The final problem is how to figure in certain tv programs that became staples of Summer and Horror Fest: The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Invader Zim, a certain Paul Lynde Halloween Special, and newbie Tales from the Darkside. And, of course, Dr. Re-Animator!
Also, dare I add Redneck Zombies? Can our stomachs handle it???
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Voting ends tomorrow at 3 something or other pm, and what I'm seeing so far is a four way tie. I'm back working nights now, folks, so somebody break that tie! I'd love to watch four movies between tonight and Sunday, but it's not going to happen.
2 comments:
Someone you know (possibly even me) just found a copy of Terrorvision for 8 bucks, including shipping, on VHS. You should probably go ahead and add it to the HF line-up now.
So, I just watched TerrorVision for the first time in... oh, hell. Twenty years.
Three things jump out at me.
1. Having recently rewatched This Film Is Not Yet Rated for pedagogical purposes, I'm flummoxed as to why, in 1986, TV was slapped with an R rating. There's plenty of innuendo and 2D depictions of nudes, but there isn't a single F-bomb in the joint, and the violence is fairly cartoonish.
2. For being a self-aware genre parody, it's a little too spot-on regarding timing, editing, little visual "jokes" that happen -- all of which will be highly appreciated by the HF crowd -- and is, in some ways, a little too perfect. Especially since it seems like it had some sort of budget (even if low), I'm wondering why this movie was never put back out on DVD. My only thoughts would be the following: a. fair use problems circulating around the visual "jokes" in the movie (I'll give one away: in the background in one scene, we see our favorite ravenous French-Canadian puppet devastating a perfectly good cardboard model of the Empire State building); or,
b. the film may have been a student film - a senior project or thesis or something - that may have duplicitously been released on VHS (and on TV), or, otherwise, something that created bad blood or was not quite the end-product imagined.
3. I now know exactly where the idea for Slither came from.
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