Posted SXSW Film Preview: The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle to Austinist
After data entry drone Dory is fired for freaking out on an annoying coworker, he finds work as a nighttime janitor in a boring Seattle office building. Alone in this low-pile carpet universe, Dory and his crew drink, smoke, and party down in the empty cubefarm. But what they don't realize is that they've become the subject of an off-the-record corporate experiment involving a bio-engineered food additive that produces some, er, bizarre side-affects, including hallucinations, stomach cramps, and asexual reproduction. Sort of.
Posted SXSW Film Preview: Best Worst Movie to Austinist
Whatever the reason for its initial failure, Troll 2 (once regarded as the "Worst Movie Ever Made") has gone on to become a bona fide cult phenomenon, riding a wave of grassroots word-of-mouth popularity that most Hollywood marketers would trade a kidney for. In Best Worst Movie, actor/filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson (along with actor-turned-dentist George Hardy) revisits the cast and crew of Troll 2, chronicling their varied reactions to the film’s newfound success. Recommended.
Posted SXSW Film Preview: Pontypool to Austinist
Pontypool (adapted from the novel "Pontypool Changes Everything" by Tony Burgess) is a quasi-zombie flick set in a rural Ontario town, where a strange virus is causing outbursts of violent behavior among the locals. If director Bruce McDonald's horror flicks are half as good as his cerebral dramas, Pontypool could well be one of the best Midnight flicks at SX this year.