The Turkish “Star Wars” Will Mess You Up
Like most genre-loving geeks worth their salt, I was extremely relieved that Star Wars: The Force Awakens did not suck. … Continue reading The Turkish “Star Wars” Will Mess You Up
A conversation with Seattle
Like most genre-loving geeks worth their salt, I was extremely relieved that Star Wars: The Force Awakens did not suck. … Continue reading The Turkish “Star Wars” Will Mess You Up
My cult cinema itch usually gets a healthy scratching from the Seattle International Film Festival, and SIFF 2014 proved to be … Continue reading SIFF 2014: A Cult Cinema Geek’s Take
It’s October, the month when even dilettantes and fair-weather fiends dip their sensitive tootsies into the well of horror. But … Continue reading Halloween Starts Early at the Grand Illusion This Weekend
If you’re looking for real seat-of-the-pants cinematic adventure and surprise on a movie screen this weekend, you’ll find it in spades and in glorious 35mm here. Continue reading Kung Fu, Spaceships, and Disembodied Heads Trump Hobbits this Weekend
Fun things to do in Kirkland tonight, number one: Seeing the Spanish werewolf comedy at the Kirkland Performance Center.
Game of Werewolves makes its third and final SIFF appearance at 9:00 p.m., and it’s shaping up to be one of the liveliest, most fun festival surprises from this corner. It tells the story of Tomas (Gorka Otxoa), a struggling writer who visits his rural hometown of Arga after a twenty-year estrangement. He’s been invited back by the townspeople under the pretense of a celebration in his honor.
But Tomas is the last of a cursed family’s bloodline, and his former neighbors are convinced that his death on the centenary of the village curse is the only way to eradicate the werewolf that’s been plaguing Arga lo, these many years.
It’s lazy to compare it to Shaun of the Dead, but like that horror-comedy classic, Game of Werewolves references classic horror tropes, hurtles its likable characters into a terrifying scenario, and watches them react in often-humorous ways. Fortunately, writer/director Juan Martinez Moreno’s definitely created (pardon the pun) his own animal.
Continue reading “A Chat with The Director of Game of Werewolves“
Jolly Old Saint Nick operates from a floating castle in the air. He uses an armada of James-Bond-cum-Rube-Goldberg devices to assess which kids are Good Little Boys and Girls. And he scores narcotic wacky dust from Merlin the Magician to knock out the small fry for toy delivery. He’s the good guy. Continue reading Santa Takes on The Devil in a Grudge Match in Ballard Tonight!
Happily, three local theaters are offering prime cuts of bizarre cinema this weekend, and if you’re in the mood for a strange cinematic cocktail during these summer days, seek the enclosed recommendations out.
One of these theaters, amazingly enough, is AMC’s Pacific Place Cinema in the heart of downtown Seattle. Continue reading Gallows Giggles, Exploitation, and Old-School Horror at Local Theaters This Weekend