Back again for “Spectober,” Worse Than Jail Presents: Jail for Kids & Faces of Jail.
Faces of Jail & Jail for Kids is a bold, horror-centric back-to-back program about nightmares and bad kids by Matt Minter, aka Worse Than Jail. His films collage and merge a depraved mix of obscure, lost and forgotten video clips ranging from nightmares and children’s entertainment for disaffected youth to the world of alcoholic clowns, public access Star Trek parodies, and DIY tributes to The Muppet Show.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 – MIDNIGHT
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 – 7:30PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 – MIDNIGHT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 10PM
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 10PM
Faces of Jail
dir. Matt Minter (aka Worse than Jail), 2022
45 min, USA
Faces of Jail focuses on the nightmarish aspect of horror masks and what lies beneath them. Strangely grotesque and mysterious, Minter presents a mix of faces, masks, visages, and expressions in which the audience can see how masks in horror films take on different forms— from being abstract to strictly frightening.
Jail for Kids
dir. Matt Minter (aka Worse than Jail), 2022
45 min, USA
This film takes the audience on a journey through deranged children’s entertainment found via public access TV and obscure, lost and forgotten films. Today we like to think of the Teletubbies or Barney as a “creepy kids show” with subtle symbols and messages secretly meant to corrupt children, but Minter dives deeper and earlier than these shows to weave a mix of surprising content that’s too strange to be real.
Worse Than Jail is the internet alias of Kentucky-based artist Matt Minter. Minter is most notable for his horror-centric B&W illustrations, as well video work and association with the noise-rock group Wretched Worst. Worse Than Jail Video is a series amassing the filmic inspirations for Minter’s work. Expanding on Minter’s curatorial contributions to Los Angeles’ Cathode Cinema, the series will check off a list of exceptionally psychotronic obscurities.