Best of Fest Short: To My Mother and Father
Runner-Up: All Flowers in Time
Best of Fest Feature: Profane
Runner-Up: A Horrible Way to Die
Most Effectively Effectively Offensive: A Safe Distance Away
Runner-Up: Ninjas
Director’s Choice Short: Beating Hearts
Runner-Up: Good Morning Beautiful
Director’s Choice Feature: CHOP – The Movie
Runner-Up: The Beast Pageant
Audience Award: Hobo With a Shotgun
March 28, 2011 • Comments Off
DIRECTOR TRENT HAAGA IN ATTENDANCE
Join us tonight for the North American premiere of CHOP! The first screening starts at 9:15pm at the Kendall Square Cinema.
CHOP is reminiscent of newer revenge cinema, like Park Chan Wook’s SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and OLDBOY. Here, you have a fairly intricate series of bloody events put in place by someone wronged trying to make their victim pay for some secret transgression from earlier in their lives. Yet, a sense of humor remains prominent in the face of some genuinely unsettling brutality. The cast really pulls off this double-barreled tone. In particular, Billy Bakshi’s performance in the role of the condemned and amputated Lance Reed is as hilarious as it is horrifying. During the arc of the story, the roles of protagonist and antagonist are switched as potential motives are revealed, eventually enabling you to enjoy Lance’s suffering as much as the Stranger does.
Later tonight, join us for our KAIJU KARAOKE party at the Friendly Toast!
March 26, 2011 • Comments Off
LUCKY MCKEE AND PRODUCER ANDREW VAN DEN HOUTEN IN ATTENDANCE!
Join us as we present this one-night-only screening of Lucky McKee’s The Woman tonight at 9:30 p.m. with McKee and producer Andrew van den Houten in attendance!
Horror auteur, Lucky McKee, brings us his latest study in human cruelty, The Woman, co-written with the legendary Jack Ketchum. Controversially received at Sundance, this is a film that will divide audiences along undiscerning lines. Touted by critics as needless torture-porn-du-jour, this is certainly not light fare. There is a lot of vicious, female-directed brutality depicted.
However, to write this film off as anything but a scathing, feminist, thought-provoking criticism of that which it portrays is entirely missing its point. This is no slasher’s romp in the woods. This is the exploration of no-frills monstrosity; a psychopathic man and the havoc he wreaks on both his imprisoned charge and his equally imprisoned family.
This show is likely to sell out so buy your tickets ahead of time!
Afterwards, check out Machete Maidens Unleashed: Psych Pop from the Far East with DJ Brother Cleve at Think Tank. This party in honor of the Filipino exploitation doc Machete Maidens Unleashed! (screening tonight at 7:30!) features exotic sleaze, tiki-inspired cocktails, and live visuals provided by The Whore Church.
The party starts at 10:00 p.m. and goes until they kick us out the door sloppy drunk at 2:00 in the morning. There’s a $10 cover at the door (which includes free food and a drink ticket!), but this great event, like all our parties, is absolutely free with your festival pass!
And be sure to check out the other amazing feature films and shorts playing tonight and through March 31 at the Kendall Square Cinema as part of BUFF 2011!
March 25, 2011 • Comments Off
DIRECTOR JASON EISENER AND PRODUCER ROB COTTERILL IN ATTENDANCE!
“A Hiroshima of creative insanity. Every time you think the movie can’t become any more crazy, grotesque or disgusting, it takes out its penis and starts masturbating in public while raving about how cans of Progresso soup are running a shadow government.” –Matt Goldberg, Collider
Veteran actor Rutger Hauer gives the performance of a career as the Hobo, an honest homeless man trying to eke out an honest existence in ScumTown. Seeking to buy a lawnmower, he instead buys a shotgun, and takes on the crime boss Drake, and his two sons Slick and Ivan, awashing the streets in bloody red vengeance. What was once the SXSW/Grindhouse trailer sensation is now a feature length film starring Rutger freakin’ Hauer!
Peep the trailer and join us for this one-night-only engagement at the Kendall Square Cinema, Thursday March 24, at 7:00pm! Tickets are $10 and will likely sell out, so buy them in advance! The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director/producer team.
After the cinematic madness, join us at TT the Bear’s in Central Square for our opening night party!
Join us for a night of mayhem with a sci-fi/sexploitation twist!
Featuring Performances by:
Trabants (9:15)
Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band (10:15)
Math the Band (11:15)
Live VJ from WHORE CHURCH
Doors open at 8:30pm
18+
$10 in advance/$12 at the door
(Free for BUFF Passholders)
*BUFF Passholders OF AGE each receive 2 beer tickets!*
RSVP and buy your tickets!
March 23, 2011 • Comments Off
On Sunday March 20th, the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film will honor the independent film polymath, Larry Fessenden (producer of BUFF 2011 selection Satan Hates You), during its 17th Annual Chlotrudis Awards ceremony at the historic Brattle Theatre.
Mr. Fessenden will be in attendance to accept his special award from Chlotrudis to celebrate his extensive and varied body of work. The show begins at 5 pm, and tickets are $20 ($15 for Chlotrudis and Brattle members), and can be purchased online at the Brattle’s website!
Tickets are $20 for the general public/$15 for Brattle/Chlotrudis members; the event begins at 5:00pm.
March 14, 2011 • Comments Off
