FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 – MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 – MIDNIGHT
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 – MIDNIGHT
WINTERBEAST
dir. Christopher Thies, 1992
92 min. USA
“In this movie, reality is devoured, digested, and recreated for our benefit.” — Joseph A. Ziemba, BLEEDING SKULL!
A film which truly justifies the term “unclassifiable,” WINTERBEAST was shot on and off for nearly half a decade and with a mix of super 8mm and 16mm, resulting in a one of a kind piece of outsider art-horror filmmaking that must be seen to be believed. When The Wild Goose Lodge is overrun with mutilation-minded beastoids, it’s up to Sergeant Whitman and Forest Ranger Stillman to take care of business! But what about the creepiest lodge proprietor who ever creeped around in a plaid suit, Mr. Sheldon? And what about Whitman’s shape-shifting mustache?! Loaded with surreal dialogue, mind-blowing stop motion animation, homemade gore effects, and more than a few genuinely creepy moments, this forgotten cult gem has been newly restored and reconstructed from its original film elements.
Restoration courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome and the American Genre Film Archive.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 – MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17 – MIDNIGHT
THE MASK OF SATAN aka DEMONS 5: THE DEVIL’S VEIL
dir. Lamberto Bava, 1989
94 min. Italy.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Seven Italian teens on a ski trip fall into an icy crevasse in the mountains, where they discover a corpse with a strange mask. One of them immediately removes the mask (of course), releasing an ancient curse.
A (very loose) retelling of Mario Bava’s classic BLACK SUNDAY set at a haunted ski lodge in the 80s, MASK OF SATAN aka DEMONS 5 makes the most of its clearly meager budget and delivers a heaping dose of wintery WTF.