Supertrash @ Bagdad Theater
Date Posted: January 21, 2008 Posted By: ArtPDX
Night Gallery, Floating World Comics and the Bagdad Theater have teamed up to bring you a weekend of 9 unforgettable movies, live burlesque dancers, the return of The Famous Mysterious Actor Show and a stunning exhibit of re-imagined movie poster art sponsored by Seattle publisher Fantagraphics. Mark your calenders! Super Trash kicks off Friday, Feb 1st at 5:30pm.
The Exhibit:
Dozens of comic artists, illustrators and graphic designers have picked their favorite cult/trash movies and re-created the movie posters in their own style. For the duration of Supertrash, expect to find the walls of the Bagdad adorned with never-before-seen poster concepts for the following cult classics:
Basket Case, Brain Dead, Candy Tangerine Man, Christine, Daddy Day Care, Daimajin, Easy Rider, El Topo, Embryo, Emperor of The North Pole, Exorcist 2: The Heretic, Freaks, Ghetto Freaks, Groundhog Day, In a Lonely Place, Justine, Legend of Boggy Creek, Lifeforce, Mac and Me, Nightmare Alley, Nosferatu, Orca the Killer Whale, Red Dawn, Six String Samurai, Supervixens, Suspiria, Swamp Thing, The Hand, The Island, The Man from Hong Kong, The World’s Greatest Sinner, Vampiros Lesbos, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory and more.
A partial list of artists involved: Al Columbia, Renee French, Peter Thompson, Brian Churilla, Chris Cilla, Joesph Cross, Mona Superhero, Jim Rugg….
Picured: “Mad Love” by Joseph Cross
The Famous Mysterious Actor Show
Offbeat, irreverent, original, drop-dead hilarious and often times hard to describe… The FMA Show is a live, late-nite talk show “performance”. The Famous Mysterous Actor, or “Famous” as he is known to his fans, performs his monologue - sits behind desk - jokes with sidekicks - schmoozes with his real life guests - and yes, he does it all from behind his wrestling mask. After packing houses in various clubs around town, the show was surrealy picked up by Comcast and filmed live for television. At the peak of the shows success it mysteriously disappeared. When questioned about the two year hiatus, Famous seemed suprised as if he did not know that the show was off the air. All questions will be answered Saturday, February 2nd at 6:45pm.
Special guests: Wm. Steven Humphrey (Portland Mercury), psychedelic punk legend Sky Saxon (The Seeds, Psych Out) and burlesque performers from Tease-O-Rama.
Tease-O-Rama
When movies just aren’t enough! The lovely ladies of Tease-O-Rama come to the rescue performing burlesque acts between films. Be one of the many admiring judges as the vaudeville vixens bring you back the glamor of days gone by where the tease outweighed the sleaze.
The Movies:
- RE-ANIMATOR (1985, Dir. Stuart Gordon, 95 mins)
A masterpiece of hideous gore and faultless drama. - MAD LOVE (1935, Dir. Karl Freund, 68 mins)
Peter Lorre shines as a lust-bent doctor capable of anything! - ROAD HOUSE (1989, Dir. Rowdy Herrington, 114 mins)
The most macho-hot movie ever put out! - PSYCH OUT (1968, Dir. Richard Rush, 101 mins)
A sleazy expose of San Francisco ‘free love’ with Jack Nicholson as a stoner rocker on the trail of an acid casualty played by Bruce Dern-streaming-Jesus. - ROBOCOP 2 (1990, Dir. Irvin Kershner, 117 mins)
Incredibly undervalued sequel, stuffed with maniacal design and misanthropic ideology, Frank Miller’s first film job. - BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986, Dir. John Carpenter, 99 mins)
No dis to Raging Bull, Scarface, or Blade Runner, but for select hordes, BTILC is the greatest 80s rush. - BUFFALO 66 (1998, Dir. Vincent Gallo, 110 mins)
A lowlife fantasy chock with feline romance, family crap, and noirish cruising…love or hate it, it’s cool. - RETURN OF THE DRAGON (1972, Dir. Bruce Lee, 100 mns)
Bruce Lee versus Chuck Norris!!! - NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968, Dir. George A. Romero, 96 mins)
The one that makes you believe the dead will eat you.
The Schedule:
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Friday Feb 1
5:30: ‘Trailer Trash’ video
7:00: Re Animator
9:00: Mad Love
11:00: KUFO’s “Midnight Movie” Big Trouble in Little China. KUFO radio jocks Cort and Fatboy will broadcast on-site from Bagdad. -
Saturday Feb 2
12:00: Return of the Dragon
2:15: Big Trouble in Little China
4:20: Robocop 2
6:45-11:00: Psych Out w/ The Famous Mysterious Actor show
Midnight: Night of the Living Dead -
Sunday Feb 3
2:00: Big Trouble in Little China
4:05: Robocop 2
6:30: Roadhouse
9:00: Buffalo 66
11:00: Re Animator
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
Tickets: $5 per show; $15 all-day pass
Supertrash is sponsored by:
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