This month's move theme: The gods we worship.
Hints: This month's movie is a strange 80s euro-horror, with some pretty wild effects work in parts. It also contains an inordinate amount of sheets being hung to dry... indoors... with fans blowing on them... This month's movie also apparently involves the "perfect passive participle of intexō" somehow.
The best quality version available: This movie also follows a weird trend of us hanging on to a title to screen in hopes of a better quality version getting released, only for us to finally give up and agree to screen the lesser-quality version. Then, as soon as it's too late for us to switch titles, someone will announce a Blu-ray restoration. That's the case with this month's movie! But since the restoration isn't available yet, we're screening the best quality version Tim could find.
Content Warnings: [Third item in this list is spoilerish.] This month's movie is on the spookier side, contains arachnids, and [this one is the SPOILERISH one] ....... a creepy infant.
But speaking of the gods we worship...: We're a bit distracted this week, because less than 48 hrs ago, the Tape Freaks household became an unofficial kitten rescue! While Tim was on his way to Cinema of the Macabre, he ran into an alley neighbor and by comparing notes, figured out a litter of five kittens living in our mutual neighbor's garage had been on their own for five days, and mom would not be able to ever return :( So Colette (me, the writing half of Tape Freaks) sprung into action! All Colette's knowledge gleaned from following too many kitten rescues came in handy all at once, and in just 4 hours those kittens went from starving, kinda dirty and confused, to full, clean and kinda stunned to have been hand-washed by a human. Now the Tape Freaks household consists of two humans, two senior cats, five chickens, and five foster kittens! Scroll for pics, and be sure to check out this month's Mutual Aid Suggestions, because these kittens are all spoken for (by our now kitten-frenzied neighbors), but our favorite metro-area cat rescues are full of babies (and adults) who need forever homes!
Mutual Aid Suggestion: So our metro (and most other regions right now) needs more vets, and independently owned veterinary clinics. (Private equity firms are buying up our vet industry like they did our human healthcare industry, and we don't need pet-healthcare to end up like human-healthcare. We also need human healthcare to be more like pet healthcare has been, and for both to be freely accessible, paid for by our taxes. Especially the taxes we just dump into the coffers of the military industrial system, but I digress.) So while you're getting yourself enrolled into vet school (or law school, or running for local office) check out these kitten rescues and support them financially, through volunteering, or by adopting through them! Kitten Revolution, Feline Rescue, and Bitty Kitty are all organizations that adopt kittens out, and are always looking for volunteers and monetary donations. MN SNAP is an organization that provides affordable vet services for people who are utilizing needs-based public assistance programs (federal or state), and offer one of the most comprehensive lists of affordable pet care services I have encountered so far; please support them any way you can, and spread the resources they have compiled far and wide! And if you want to support the burgeoning Tape Freaks Animal Rescue, consider snagging one of Tim's tees, like this little on-the-nose number. See you tonight!
Get Your Tickets Here: Tape Freaks presents: Mystery Movie @ the Trylon, 7pm $5
