Director and star Charles Pinion in attendance for a post-screening Q&A!
PRESENTED BY SLEAZOIDS PODCAST!
Canadian Theatrical Premiere Of New Restoration!
SLEAZOIDS Podcast presents the new restoration of the wild and delirious 1988 “psycho-punk splatter-comedy” Twisted Issues, the directorial debut film of Shot-on-Video Horror/Cinema of Transgression legend Charles Pinion, whose other wonderfully strange and disturbing underground oddities include: Red Spirit Lake and We Await.
Pinions background as visual artist and punk rock/exploitation movie enthusiast is on full display in Twisted Issues. Which began production as a videotaped documentary time capsule and love letter to the punk music scene of Gainesville Florida, including such bands as: The Smegmas, Psychic Violents, Just Demigods (and many more!), and due to the collective of underground punk-skater creatives involved quickly transformed into a no-budget, experimental and surreal revenge horror-comedy. One about a murdered teenage skateboarder named Paul who is brought back from the dead by a mad scientist, has a fencing mask put over his head, skateboard deck drilled into his foot, and and is sent back out into various graffiti-covered neighborhoods, dingy beer-soaked house parties and 7/11 street corners with a single-minded intent to gruesomely K*ll the punk attackers who wrong him in a series of vicious impaling, eye-gouging, face-crushing, and sword-stabbing.
Boasting the same level of run-and-gun street authenticity that made the grimy New York exploitation movies of Abel Ferrara and Larry Cohen so striking, bizarre Italian horror primary color gel lighting, abrasive borderline avant-garde editing, resourcefully disgusting no-budget gore make-up, and a harsh and aggressive punk-rock soundtrack, Twisted Issues’ lo-fi do-it-yourself videotape aesthetic often makes it feel like one long stream-of-consciousness musical montage slasher sequence. Equal parts anarchic and ugly, it ends up working as both a work of passion for extreme and silly (and gory!) genre cinema, but also an angry, humorous portrait of youthful rebellion. Pinion saw a wonderful community of playfully transgressive counter-cultural artists who likely would’ve been forgotten by time, but now here they are preserved and immortalized in pure art-punk videotape glory. (SLEAZOIDS PODCAST)
You may also like the following events from Revue Cinema:
Also check out other
Entertainment events in Toronto,
Arts events in Toronto,
Music events in Toronto.
|
