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September 29, 2017

Trailer Trash: The Lineup

Some of you asked for it, some of you didn't even know you needed it, but here's the list of trailers played during Trailer Trash: Reanimated! Thanks to our lovely projectionist John Moret, this was his first stab at splicing a Trailer Trash together and he did fantastic! This show is tons of work, but seeing a crowd have that much fun is a pretty sweet pay off if you ask us.

FIRST HALF:

WALK DON'T RUN SNIPE

COMING SOON WOLVES

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ODDBALL

CLOAK AND DAGGER

THUNDER RUN

SPACE RAIDERS

YOR THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE

BEASTMASTER 2

GHOST WARRIOR

SEVEN BLOWS OF THE DRAGON

UNBEATABLE DRAGON

AMERICAN NINJA 3

LINK

PROPHECY

XTRO

THE MANITOU

PROPHECY

SQUIRM

THE DAY THAT TIME ENDED

TIMERIDER

ELIMINATORS

7-11 COKE ADVERTISEMENT

COWBOYS IN BRAZIL SHILTZ AD

GOOD GUYS MEET AT THE SNACKBAR COWBOYS

SECOND HALF:

GRINDHOUSE COMING ATTRACTIONS SNIPE

ATARI / KOOL CIGARETTS AD

CLONES

SCANNERS

ASYLUM

MILLOF THE STONE WOMEN

SCARS OF DRACULA

CREEPSHOW

RETURN TO HORROR HIGH

PROM NIGHT 3

DEAD HEAT

VICE SQUAD

GATOR

JAWS 3D

GODZILLA VS MEGALON

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

HYPERSAPIEN THE PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER STAR

THE TERRORNAUTS

GREEN SLIME

FLESH GORDON

DUNGEONMASTER

September 28, 2017

First Clue: October's Mystery Movie

Clue #1: This month's movie is Tim's pick, and he's picked a pretty sweet genre mashing movie to screen for us!

Tape Freaks Presents: October's Mystery Movie at the Trylon Cinema, Wednesday, October 4th @ 7:00pm, only $5!

****Purchase advance ticket here****

September 26, 2017

Trailer Trash: Re-animated

We're VERY excited to have Trailer Trash re-animated at the shiny new Trylon theaters! Tickets are a bit more this time around, but this show doubles as a fundraiser to cover the Trylon's building costs from their epic re-model. And in true Trailer Trash tradition, there are two screenings (7:00 & 9:00), so come early or come late, but come see all the weird stuff we can fit on to six reels!!

Trailer Trash: Re-Animated, at (the newly gussied up) Trylon, Wednesday September 27th @ 7 & 9pm, $12 (all ticket sales going straight to the Trylon!)

September 5, 2017

Third Clue: September's Mystery Movie

Clue #3: This months movie was filmed as a standalone horror flick, but the distributors decided to change the title to infer it was a sequel to a better known, and totally unrelated, movie.

>>>THIS MONTH'S SHOW WILL BE AT DIFFERENT LOCATION!! Read on to find out more!<<<<

>>>>THE TRYLON IS IN THE MIDST OF A REMODEL SO OUR SHOW IS TEMPORARILY ON THE ROAD!!! Come check us out this month at the community room in the Carleton Artist Lofts! <<<<

Tape Freaks Presents: September's Mystery Movie at the Carleton Artist Lofts community room, Wednesday September 6th @ 7:00pm. Suggested donation $5

Back to School: Return to Horror High

Another guest writing spot by Izzi Xiques, this time as a joint effort with Colette, because this movie is SO flippin' confusing...

Return to Horror High right off the bat is misleading as it has absolutely nothing to do with the Horror High that came out over a decade before. But that's only where the confusion starts, I actually had to watch this film twice to try and decipher what the hell was going on.

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!!!

As much as I can figure out, the plot is basically this: in a high school abandoned because of a murder spree in which the killer was never caught, a production company is shooting a film based on the murders, and as you'd expect the cast and crew start getting picked off by an unknown killer. Now, you might think "obviously the murderer is back”, but it’s not that simple. At least I don’t think it's that simple, because this movie is so confusing that I don’t even know if it’s simple or not. [Spoilers ahead, I think???] The story is told through a series of flashbacks within flashbacks, movies scenes within the film and dream sequences, and because of all these layers, you start to question what's flashbacks and what's present day. You'd think that would be pretty apparent, but it's not in ways you couldn't possibly imagine.

The film opens with police investigating the death of an entire film crew. A detective and some officers are getting the gory story of what happened by questioning the lone survivor (the screenwriter) and we are pretty quickly thrown into a flashback. The flashback is mostly there to set-up who's who in the production crew. The film's producer keeps forcing the screenwriter to write in more sex and boobs, one of the actors is dropping from the production to take a better gig, the director is frustrated with everything, and actors and crew keep hanging out in inexplicably dark corners of the school far away from everyone else. Once the murders get going, it's hard for the crew to distinguish between the special effects and people who have been murdered. But it's not just the people in the film who are confused by what's "real" and what's part of the film production.

Things start getting really confusing for the audience when a scene (complete with full cinematic coverage and editing) suddenly ends when someone yells "cut". It turns out that scene was being shot by the film crew, and we were watching it play out as though it were the finished product. And, if that wasn't confusing enough, later on in the film an a different fully-cinematic scene turns out to have been a dream sequence! (There's a final element of confusion to this flashback salad, but it's a total spoiler. Let's just say that it leaves you wondering even deeper what's "real" and "fake", even though it was clearly intended to give the viewer a more concrete idea of what was what.)

The conclusion to this who-done-it horror doesn't give much clarification either, but let’s just say there is a javelin throw, a bunch of dead brides, a twist you couldn't see coming if you tried, and a teen pregnancy. There's also a tease for a sequel that never came.

But even though this trashy 80’s slasher is actually the most complicated and confusing film I’ve ever seen, I highly recommend watching it. If not for any other reasons than it's peppered with awkward (and nonsensical) sex montages, features a young George Clooney and a Brady Bunch daughter all grown up, and was shot by pretty decent cinematographer (Roy H. Wagner). At least you can say all of those things make sense!

September 3, 2017

Back to School: Deadly Eyes

We wrote this up for our eco horror theme a few years ago (check out that post here), and although it's not really a movie about school, it's got one particular school element that stands out.

Breaks into his house so he'll discover her like this.
Dudes LOVE when you break into their homes... right?

One of this killer-rat movie's main characters is a teacher who's being pursued by one of his (very young) students. She's pretty relentless in her efforts to get him to date her but, he doesn't ever consider that as a possibility. And he doesn't just shut her down and move on with his dog-sized rat fighting day; he shuts her down and pursues a woman his own age. His reactions are so out of the ordinary, especially for that time period, that it's one of the few elements I can recall about this flick. (I mean, aside from the TERRIFYING effect of dachshunds wearing rat costumes.)

I don't know who was responsible for those decisions in this film, but I would LOVE to thank them in person. It's not everyday you get to see men behaving appropriately when it comes to minors (on screen or otherwise) but when I do see it in film, it makes an impression. Makes you wonder what kinds of impressions are being imprinted when the opposite is portrayed... *

But is this dude actually deserving of all that lady attention? Not particularly... but it's Canada, eh?

*JK, we totally know.

September 2, 2017

Second Clue: September's Mystery Movie

Clue #2: Most of the character names in this month's movie are references to well known genre directors.

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