MADCAP & BOOKMANS CELEBRATE MOVIE MADNESS MONTH WITH TROLL 2 HIT DOCUMENTARY, SPANISH HORROR: REC 2

Phoenix AZ—July 14, 2010

MADCAP & BOOKMANS CELEBRATE MOVIE MADNESS MONTH WITH TROLL 2 HIT DOCUMENTARY, SPANISH HORROR: REC 2, JAPANESE CULT HIT: HAUSU & GRINDHOUSE RELEASING DOUBLE FEATURE

BEST WORST MOVIE DOUBLE FEATURE
Friday August 6 & Saturday August 7 - The Room (8pm) & Birdemic: Shock & Terror (10pm)
$10 Double feature or $7 per Film

The Room (2003) back by popular demand! The unintentionally hilarious steaming pile of relationship drama that been hailed as Floor Plan 9 from Outer Space and without a doubt, the worst film ever made, including movies made on Betamax cameras in special education high school classes. Gag me with a plastic spoon! This will be followed by Birdemic: Shock & Terror (2008). Perhaps the most discussed and anticipated avian-based disaster film since The Birds, Birdemic is equal parts both epochal tale and cinematic warning shot. It tells the story of a couple unexpectedly and unforgettably caught in the eye of a feather-based storm an apocalyptic attack winging down from the skies in a twisted morass of feathers, talons and blood-soaked claws. Officially Rejected from Sundance 2009, it has to be seen to be believed!

EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTS
Friday August 6 & Saturday August 7 – Gone with the Pope (8pm) & Pieces (10pm)
$8 Double feature - 35mm

Gone with the Pope (2010) A renowned nightclub entertainer, singer and movie actor known as "Mr. Palm Springs," Mitchell directs and stars in GONE WITH THE POPE as an ex-con who hatches a plan to kidnap the Pope in exchange for the ransom of "a dollar from every Catholic in the world." Gone with the Pope was shot in 1975 but remained unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981. The film reels sat until Bob Murawski offered to take a shot at piecing the movie together. Murawski took charge of the restoration and spent 15 years giving Mitchell's low-budget movie an A-list treatment in between editing Sam Raimi's Spider Man 1, 2 & 3, Drag me to Hell, and The Hurt Locker. Pieces (1982) A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old! Pieces is a wild, unrated gorefest, with enough splatter and sleaze to shock the most jaded horror fan! "Not only is this the ultimate chainsaw movie, it's the ultimate slasher film. It has everything you could possibly want, by the bucketful. Full on chainsaw violence, absurd amounts of nudity, and the greatest ending in horror history. “(Eli Roth)

GRINDHOUSE REDUX
Friday August 13 & Saturday August 14 – The Carhops (8pm) & The Teasers (10pm)
$8 Double feature - 35mm

The Carhops (1975) Kitty Carl and Fay Dewitt star in this lighthearted, sexy story of a girl's attempts to find Mr. Right, or at the very least, some hot action. After moving out of the reach of her controlling mother, Kitty is looking forward to a life of freedom and dating. Luckily the neighborhood girls are generous with their men. The Teasers (1987) A bright beautiful young schoolgirl (Gloria Guida) uses charm to earn good grades from her instructors. After her relationship with an older man, she realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.

EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTS
Thursday August 12 (8pm), Friday August 13 & Saturday August 14 – House (6, 8, 10pm) $8 – 35mm

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. Never before released in the United States, and a bona fide cult classic in the making, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.

EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTS
August 14 – Hell on Wheels (8pm) & Total Badass (10pm) with Director Bob Ray
$8 Double feature

Hell on Wheels (2007) takes a from-the-trenches look at the dizzying clash of athleticism, exhibitionism, egos, politics and business that is modern-era roller derby. A group of hard-hitting Texas women overcome myriad obstacles in resurrecting and revamping the sport, only to find internal strife ripping the fledgling organization apart. Two leagues emerge from the clash, and what follows ignites an international roller derby revival. Shot over a five-year period by director Bob Ray (who will be presenting the screening) the story is extremely compelling, sometimes laugh-out-loud outrageous and above all inspiring. Total Badass (2010) is the Texas tale of a hilarious, crazy-ass writer/publisher/singer/weed-dealer/sex addict/Guinea pig enthusiast/dad/pirate radio host/raconteur and general man-about-town as he rides out the last six months of felony probation and, ultimately, must change his ways when a financial crisis befalls his estranged family.

EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTS
Thursday August 19 - Best Worst Movie (6pm) Troll 2 (8pm), Friday August 20 & Saturday August 21 – Best Worst Movie (4 & 8 pm) Troll 2 (6 & 10pm)$10 Double Feature – 35mm

Best Worst Movie (2009) is the acclaimed feature length documentary that takes us on an off-beat journey into the undisputed worst movie in cinematic history: Troll 2. In 1989, when an Italian filmmaker and unwitting Utah actors shot the ultra-low budget horror film, Troll 2, they had no idea that twenty years later they would be celebrated worldwide for their legendary ineptitude. Two decades later, the film’s now-grown-up child star (Michael Paul Stephenson) unravels the improbable, heartfelt story of the Alabama dentist-turned-cult movie icon and the Italian filmmaker who come to terms with this genuine, internationally revered cinematic failure. Troll 2 (1990) Joshua's family takes a trip to NILBOG, which, unbeknownst to them, is the kingdom of the goblins, as told to young Joshua by his grandfather Seth, who just happens to be dead. Now it's up to Josh, magical time stopping Grandpa Seth, and a bologna sandwich to save the family from the evil Goblin Queen, who uses everything from magical rocks to an ear of corn, to destroy Josh's family.

COMEDY AND FILM
Thursday August 26 – Everything is Terrible! (8pm) $10

For a couple years now, the cultural historians over at Everything is Terrible! have worked hard to dredge up all the groan-inducing infomercials, workout videos, PSAs and otherwise terrible footage from the '80s and '90s that they could find. They take forgotten VHS tapes of all kinds and edit them down into easily digestible viral videos. Everything Is Terrible! was started in 2007 as a way for a group of friends with a serious VHS habit to swap footage. It has since evolved into a full blown internet phenomenon, appearing on The Onion A.V. Club, Boing Boing, NPR, MTV, Web Soup, and G4’s Attack of the Show! And if that wasn't already the coolest Popsicle in the fridge, the EIT! crew will appear in the flesh to coax you into their disturbingly hilarious world, with a live, fully-costumed, fog-machined show that's been described as "a mix of The Holy Mountain, The Never Ending Story and the cult orgy from Eyes Wide Shut all shoved into one”.

EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTS
Thursday August 26 (8pm), Friday August 27 & Saturday August 28 – [REC] 2 (6, 8 & 10pm) $8 – 35mm

[REC] 2 (2009) The highly anticipated sequel to one of the scariest films of all time, [REC] 2 picks up 15 minutes from where we left off, taking us back into the quarantined apartment building where a terrifying virus has run rampant, turning the occupants into mindlessly violent, raging beasts. A heavily armed SWAT team and a mysterious government official are sent in to assess and attempt to neutralize the situation. What they find inside lies beyond the scope of medical science—a demonic nightmare of biblical proportions more terrifying than they could have possibly imagined. Above all it must be contained, before it escapes to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting world outside.