MIFF Trash Horror
What:
MIFF Trash Horror
Where:
Check the program from July 11
When:
Uh. Check the program
How much:
Tickets here from July 11
Film festivals occasionally throw a few obscure horror gems into their programs to up their cool quotient, but MIFF takes it a step further this year by gleefully embracing the long, trashy and often bizarre history that spawned the contemporary genre.
1968's Spider Baby is one of the most hilarious and fundamentally doomed cult film productions of all time, thus a hands-down festival highlight. Alternatively known as ‘The Liver Eaters', ‘Cannibal Orgy' and ‘The Maddest Story Ever Told', it will convert even the most earnest cinephile to the joys of trash.
Superstar MIFF guest this year George Romero's Martin is not only his strangest and most perverse film, but also one of his lesser known. Bringing him together with cult hero and special effects artist Tom Savini for the first time, Martin twists vampiric clichés into something freshly disturbing.
Four out of five films in the Ozploitation program are horror, and the most exciting in terms of big-screen spectacle is the rock video psychedelia of Razorback. Tarantino calls Russell Mulcahy a poor man's Ridley Scott, but with Razorback's nonsensical plot and hyperactive visuals, he's more a Melbourne-born Dario Argento.
Format: Festival
Mood: Make a therapy appointment now
Keywords: MIFF, George Romero, Spider Baby, Horror
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