In case you missed Stake Land on Friday and Saturday, tonight's 9PM screening at the AMC 2 is your last chance to see the film which earlier today received the Cadillac People's Choice Midnight Madness Award!
I am officially throwing down the gauntlet: Fubar II set the bar for enthusiasm pretty high last night. This is the first time I’ve ever seen Colin have to yell into the mic to be heard over the crowd check it out below!
Midnight Madness audiences are known as some of the best and most enthusiastic crowds a film can have. I've been going to Midnight Madness for 12 years now, and I would wholeheartedly agree! But at tonight's World Premiere of Fubar II, a sold out theatre full of metalheads and 'hoser bitches'* put every single Midnight Madness audience that had come before it to shame.
More Midnight Madness Picks -- this time from Rue Morgue Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Dave Alexander. Besides producing a heck of a mag every month, he programs Rue Morgue's monthly Cinemacabre screenings at the Bloor Cinema, runs MSN Movies' Blogtastic Voyage, and knows the lines to Magnum Force verbatim.
1. Fubar 2
Being from Alberta, the hoser headbanger epic that is Fubar is close to my heart (well... maybe closer to my liver...), so I plan on putting on my tightest pair of black jeans, crackin' a few cold ones before the screening and just givin' 'er for this opening night MM film. With a bigger budget, eight years for the story to germinate in co-writer/director Michael Dowse's head, and a killer premise that sees dirtbags-in-arms Dean and Terry seeking fame and fortune in the Northern Alberta oil patch, I fully expect the good to be cranked waaay up on this one, and the suck to be turned down. Besides, with their balding buddy Tron returning, there's no way this one can funkin' blow.
2. Stake Land
I love director Jim Mickle and writer/star Nick Damici's Romero-influenced rat apocalypse movie Mulberry Street, so I expect their politically-charged vampire apocalypse tale to make a big, bloody splash. Glass Eye Pix – Larry Fessenden's company – has a great track record and seems like the perfect indie film fit, plus I like the grim atmosphere of the trailer and that they use a Leadbelly tune on the soundtrack. I'm anticipating the welcome antithesis to a certain popular tween wuss-vampire franchise. That's right, suck it, Twilight, Stake Land will PWN you. OMG! LOL!
3. Super
James Gunn made one of my favourite horror comedies, Slither, plus the little seen superhero spoof he wrote called The Specials has some great moments in it (if not quite enough budget to match its ambitions). With that nerd cred, you can expect serious laughs out of movie about a costumed vigilante armed with a monkey wrench. But wait, we've also got The Office's Rainn Wilson in the lead, Ellen Page in the role of sidekick, and shore it up with the likes of Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon and Michael Rooker in supporting roles? That's a recipe for spandex-busting wannabe superhero shenanigans if ever there was one.
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Super screens:
Monday, September 13. 9:30AM Varsity 8
Saturday September 18 6:00PM Scotiabank 4
Fubar II screens:
Thursday September 9. 11:59PM Ryerson
Saturday September 11 12:00PM Varsity 8
Stake Land screens:
Friday, September 17. 11:59PM Ryerson
Saturday September 18, 12:15PM Scotiabank 4
Sunday September 19 9:00PM AMC 2
Only three sleeps to go before the insomnia begins! If you're still having a tough time deciding which Midnight Madness titles to see this year, I'll be posting a handful of picks from some fine feathered friends of ours in film-critic-land."My picks for Midnight Madness this year entail everything from samurais to hosers to John Carpenter. Bunraku --who could resist a samurai that reunites Indecent Proposal stars Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore? Fubar II promises more headbanging fun and John Carpenter's The Ward places the director right where he belongs... in a mental institution. Also VERY curious about James Gunn's film Super. Anyone who could write Tromeo and Juliet and Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed clearly has something interesting to say!"
The Toronto Underground Cinema is giving Torontonians two opportunities to see the original Fubar on the big screen before seeing its sequel, Fubar II opens Midnight Madness on September 9th.
"Fubar II world Premier at TFFF (Toronto F*cking Film Festival) on Sept 9. Don't like sequels? Well, FU2 buddy. Again."
"My neighbour told me if I don't put up some blinds soon he's gonna duct tape the outside of my windows. I was like great, free duct tape."
"Ten minutes of rock is worth twenty minutes of meditation."