In February, the inaugural installment of the Supertrash Film
Festival took over the Bagdad Theater with three days of burlesque,
art, and pulp cinema. Now—a scant three months
later—Supertrash is back, bringing with it another batch of
beloved classics from the ’70s and ’80s, as well as some not-so-beloved
non-classics and a bunch of “bonus features,” from an exhibit of
burlesque and crime scene photos to an Elvira pinball contest to (and
this might be the most worrisome phrase ever written) an “on-site
massage therapy with added didgeridoo.”
Okay, what the fuck about the didgeridoo massage, but
whatever—the movies here, or at least a few of them, are the
draw. Kicking off the fest is Francis Ford Coppola’s underrated
Rumble Fish (1983), based on S.E. Hinton’s badass young adult
novel (S.E. Hinton rules!), and over the next two days, there are some
other good bets: the 1973 Dirty Harry flick Magnum Force; 1987’s
goofy Corey Feldman/Corey Haim team-up The Lost Boys; and the
sweet, sweet sounds of Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Celebration (1979), which “captures a 1974 Texas-style Woodstock in all its
drunken, stoned prowess.” (If anybody’s as cool as S.E. Hinton, it’s
Willie.)
Other screenings include the Sherman Hemsley comedy Ghost
Fever (1987), and Boarding House (1982), an “unclassifiable
supernatural-slasher-sexball comedy.”
Admission is $5 per film, or all-day passes are available for $15. More info: myspace.com/supertrashfest.
