Ticket are only $15 at the door ($12 online…PURCHASE HERE)
We are back with a new Indie Film Festival. This time it’s… B-Movie Madness!!
Our first festival was to shock and awe Chicago with some of the best underground, extreme horror you can imagine. Well I think we shocked a few people, but this time its a bit different. On Saturday, January 17th at the Portage Theater we will be showcasing some of the best Indie B-Movies and Horror Comedies around. Our lineup includes….
Better Off Undead
The Driller Killer
The Stalking Hand
It’s My Party, and I’ll Die If I Want To
Four of the best and most original horror comedies. Each with a little special something… The feature film, It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To, will feature a “Choose your own adventure” version of the film in which you the audience will be able to participate and choose how you want the movie to play. Not just the ending, but the whole movie. Its truly an original idea for a horror movie, and hell any movie for that matter. We will be having giveaways and trailers throughout the festival!
Check out the synopsis for each movie along with the trailers below…
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Better Off Undead
Marcus, Chris and Evan find themselves stuck in any normal day, when without warning, zombies begin to infest the city. Not knowing exactly what to do, the three attempt to seek shelter at Marcus’ house, but first they have to get there. Facing the undead, Marcus, Chris and Evan try to survive the zombies and each other.
Written and directed by John Pata, and starring Drew Schuldt, Dale DeVries and Jordan Brown, BETTER OFF UNDEAD was filmed in Oshkosh, WI and features music by The Lemurs, Lead Me Not, Johnny and the Phux, and The Suicide Machines.
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The Driller Killer
An artist slowly loses his mind as he and his two female friends scrape to pay the bills. The punk band downstairs increasingly agitates him, his art dealer is demanding that he complete his big canvas painting as promised, and he gets into fights with his girlfriends. When the dealer laughs at his canvas he snaps, and begins taking it out on the people responsible for his pain and random transients in the manner suggested by the title.
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The Stalking Hand
When a young man get fresh with his date her father, a preacher, goes insane and severs the young man’s hand with a chainsaw. The sever limb, understandably bitter about the whole affair, spend eternity stalking and killing every living human it encounters.
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It’s My Party, and I’ll Die If I Want To
Seventy years ago, Jacob Burkitt murdered and dismembered his enjoy family and cast a dark shadow over the small town of Monessen, Pennsylvania. Now Sara’s friends have decided to make her 18th birthday a night to remember by throwing her a surprise party in the reputedly haunted Burkitt Manor. As her friends set up the party, the evil within the house awakens and begins killing off her friends one by one. Does Sara have what it takes to save her friends from almost certain death or will she too become victim to the horrors of Burkitt Manor?
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Guests:
John Pata
Lou Vockell
Russ Hurley
Tony Wash
The Scotchworthy Girls
Dr. AC (Horror 101)
and more…
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Vendors:
Jim Kay
Better Off Undead
Scotchworthy Productions
Dr AC and Wild Claw Theater
and more…
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I know it’s going to be cold in January, but get out of the house anyway and come enjoy the warm theater and laugh your ass off with some of the best in B-Movies!!
Ticket are only $15 at the door ($12 online…PURCHASE HERE)
Portage Theater
4050 N. Milwaukee Ave
Saturday, January 17th
5pm – 12am
B-Movie Madness!!!
