It has come to my attention that there are those living outside the Austin area who grow weary of hearing and reading about the enchanted wonders of America’s greatest movie theater, the Alamo Drafthouse. Such individuals should avoid this post, which concerns the slate of “the strangest, the most heart-pounding and the most challenging new genre films” scheduled for the 2008 Fantastic Fest, to be held at said Drafthouse from September 18-25. Here are a few highlights:
JCVD – Jean-Claude Van Damme enters the Shatner phase of his career as he “portrays an aging action star whose career in Hollywood is all but washed up. Returning to his homeland in Brussels, he lands in the middle of a bank heist and may have to actually save the day.”
I Think We’re Alone Now – There’s no shortage of horror movies scheduled for this year’s festival, but this one may be the most terrifying of all. “This fascinating and deeply disturbing documentary takes you deep into the worlds and obsessions of Kelly McCormick and Jeffery Deane Turner, who have been separately stalking 80s pop icon Tiffany for nearly 20 years.”
Feast 2 – Certainly the first sequel spawned by Project Greenlight – unless there’s a Return to Shaker Heights I’m unaware of – this John Gulager opus picks up the morning after the original. “There are more monsters and they are even angrier/hungrier,” as if you couldn’t guess.
Donkey Punch – Described as “the vilest movie ever made,” this Brit-flick named after a sexual act I won’t begin to describe concerns sexy young people “hanging out on a ‘borrowed’ yacht for a day of drugs, debauchery, and ultimately donkey punching. After a particularly jarring donkey punch in a group sex orgy, the girls on the boat realize that maybe they can't trust the guys they just met in a nightclub after all.” The first screening will be followed by the “potentially inappropriate” Donkey Punch Boat Party on Lady Bird Lake. And here we always figured LBJ for a Dirty Sanchez man.
Check out the full schedule at the Fantastic Fest site.
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