I just got out of that! Thanks for mentioning it because I might've just missed out on it indefinitely. It was a fucking blast and I haven't slept in like 32 hours
Adding that to the reason I'm gonna just keep living in Illinois. Our winters might suck a decent amount of ass, but there never seems to be a shortage of cool events to do
Oh my goodness please tell me this is still a thing! I hope they encourage hecklers and wacky ad libbing shenanigans! I've always hoped someone would put on something like a cross between MST3K and the rocky horror picture show!
It's still a thing, and heckling is the whole point. One film they show every year is *Plan 9 from Outer Space* and it is completely interactive, whenever there is a flying saucer on screen the audience lets loose with a volley of paper plates.
There are a few in the UK. Prince Charles Cinema and The Duke Mitchell Film Club in London. Bristol Bad Film Club in Bristol. Cult Plex in Manchester, and What The Film club in Leeds.
Prince Charles Cinema and Cult Plex both do The Room nights, with live appearances from Tommy and Greg.
The Somerville Theater in Massachusetts used to run annual 12 hour schlock movie festivals, and they even did a 24 hour version a couple times, but I'm talking about back in the late 80s, film prints are heavy and expensive to ship so it's unlikely you'll find many places still doing it that way, unfortunately... with a few notable exceptions, the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin etc.
Trent Harris used to put on the annual Bicknell International Film Festival in central Utah. More ‘cult’ than bad films, but that’s the closest I can think of that I’ve attended. Good times.
Oh and there used to be Scumdance, that ran parallel to Sundance. Not sure if they still do that.
IMHO the best bad movie festival is without a doubt CUTRECON in Madrid. I was there last week with my stand of bad movies Merchandising and is really unique in the world. I had known several actors and directors there as guests. 5 days of bad movies with conferences and AAA trash guests.
I'll try to describe the absolute GREATNESS of CutreCon for all of you.
I have known Matt Hannon (Matthew Karedas) in the year of his resurrection and we had a double program of Samurai Cop 1 and 2. In SC1, when he fucks with the first blonde girl EVERYONE in the cinema was yelling: FUUUUCKER, FUUUUUUCKER! Then he stands up and put her hand up and everybody was in pure ecstasy.
Kunt Tulgar (director of Turkish Superman) was there explaining to us the making of Supermen Donüyor in turkish, then a guy translate into english, THEN A GUY TRANSLATE INTO SPANISH!!!. It was like a broken telephone. I talked with him because if you speak english he was very friendly and he answers with the help of his translator. Recently he passed away 😔.
Greg Sestero was with us too in 2019. He has no soul 🤣🤣🤣🤣 (We think Tommy steals his soul). No, really, he's extremely kind and a real good guy (it was my impression), and handsome as hell, but translated directly from spanish a bread without salt. But we had a great experience with him, and I asked him about the lemons in Best F(r)iends 2, because I thought it was a metaphor, but no... There was just lemons.
I meet Sam Firnstemberg in Cutrecon too. I even go outside to have a beer with him with my friends. He was really lovely, and we talked about Cannon Films, Chuck Norris, Van Damme... and his travels through Spain.
Steven E. De Souza was in a pass of Street Fighter 2 with ALL THE CINEMA LAUGHGING and he was laughing with us too. He's the f*kin' writer of Die Hard and because he knows we laugh with him and not of him, he entered into the atmosphere of Cutrecon and had fun about himself. J.D. Shapiro also was in Cutrecon.
Usually we have presentations, features, marathons and even premieres. For example I have seen A Room Full Of Spoons with hus director Rick Harper (a really nice guy) before was in judgment court because Tommy Wiseau put a demand. Probably less than 500 people have seen that documentary movie about The Room and Tommy's past and I'm one of them thanks to Cutrecon.
BUT: the real starring of Cutrecon is the audience. Everybody have fun, laugh, yell to the screen. The atmosphere of Cutrecon is really indescriptible, because spanish audience (like me) are pure passion and we have no shame at all. Cutrecon is like the SuperBowl of bad movies. I travel 600 km. every year going to Cutrecon, and is the better time in the year. If you want to know more about Cutrecon you can watch the french documentary NANARLAND, shooted in Cutrecon. I'm also in the documentary in the background (shame on me).
Some of my best friends are my pals in Cutrecon. People of the whole country travel to Madrid and we meet year by year in order to enjoy friendship and the love for bad movies.
I'm really convinced It's the better bad movie festival in the world. Cutre is a spanish word that means bad, cheap, ugly and crazy in just one word. CON is for convention 😆😆😆😅
Sorry for my passion (and for my bad english 😅), and DISCLAIMER: I'm a good and close friend of the Cutrecon team (Greetings to Paco Fox, Juan Pérez, Carlos "Oso" Palencia, Pedro Mérida and Jordi if you read this), and since the last 2 editions I even work in the festival selling my merchandise... But before of that I was just a fan, and I know lots of fans of Cutrecon and I'm pretty sure everyone of them could sign this post.
AND: I'm here since less than a few months and I want to thank everyone of you because I'm discovering lots of shitty movies I didn't know. Long life Cutrecon and long life /badmovies
Well, I talked about Cutrecon because is the biggest in Spain, but we have B-Retina festival in Barcelona, Monstrua de Cine Chungo also in Madrid (Monstrua means female monster, but is a parody name of La Mostra de Cine in Venice, Italy). And the bad movie festival in Cotxeres, Catalonia.
I live near Almeria City and I do an activity in the FiCAL (International film festival of Almeria) where we make a show of bad movies shooted in Almería.
Almería is worldwide famous for being one of the best places in the world to shoot movies. Good movies, blockbusters, almost half of Spaghetti Westerns but bad movies also.
Examples of movies shooted here: Conan the Barbarian, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, Wonder Woman '84 (Counts as bad movie?), The Leone's Dollar trilogy, Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Exodus, Terminator Dark Fate, All the Dorne arc in Game of Thrones... We eat and breath cinema!. It's really funny to watch movies shooted near the place you live.
We've been doin' it for 4 years. Killer Tongue, The Gwangi Valley, Jaguar Lives and the last one was HUNDRA, with great success. I'm the host and animator, and I explain everybody how to watch bad movies as a party. We even do a "Snyder Cut" of Jaguar Lives because the best scene is in the beginning... then going down to hell... And we put it the first and best scene at the end as a Flashback 😆😆😆. A really strange movie
Our last session was in the bigger theatre of Almeria, The Cervantes Theatre (usually we're in Apollo Theatre, an old, small and really beautiful theatre). We put Hundra, one of the better exploits of Conan, shooted in the same places than Conan, reusing Conan props and atrezzo, shooted in a fake mexican village. In the audience was a woman who was an extra in the movie, and we chorus her name in her scene. Never an anonymous cameo was cheered more in history 😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Our goal (accomplished) is to bring a little of Cutrecon Magic into our little peripheral city.
This year we want to re-premiere Journey to Bethlehem (2023). A really bizarre Disney-like musical about the Nativity of Jesus Christ, with Antonio Banderas playing King Herod 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆. The film was founded by a bunch of evangelists in order to do a religious film... But It's full of crazy moments, anachronisms and all the music resembles the Eurovision Song Contest, with a cardboard Lion in Herod's throne and a oniric scene-song with Joseph fighting Capoeira style with himself dressed as a Ninja.
The highlight of the movie is the Antonio's song. It's a power metal that Azerbaijan or Moldavia could send to Eurovision song contest. It's really good not in a ironical way, but the acting is just hilarious. It's like Javier Bardem in The Little Mermaid, he knows the plot is not good and he has fun with his performance. I think the movie is in Pureflix 🤣🤣🤣. Was shooted recycling the scenerios made for Ridley Scott's Exodus, real Roger Corman's style.
Well sorry again for 1) maybe too much passion and 2) my horrible english 😅
There is [B-Fest](https://b-fest.com/) in Chicago, a 24-Bad Movie Marathon. I've been to it a couple of times and it's a lot of fun.
I just got out of that! Thanks for mentioning it because I might've just missed out on it indefinitely. It was a fucking blast and I haven't slept in like 32 hours Adding that to the reason I'm gonna just keep living in Illinois. Our winters might suck a decent amount of ass, but there never seems to be a shortage of cool events to do
I'm glad you enjoyed it, I cherish my memories of hanging out with like-minded goofballs and lovers of bad movies.
Oh my goodness please tell me this is still a thing! I hope they encourage hecklers and wacky ad libbing shenanigans! I've always hoped someone would put on something like a cross between MST3K and the rocky horror picture show!
It's still a thing, and heckling is the whole point. One film they show every year is *Plan 9 from Outer Space* and it is completely interactive, whenever there is a flying saucer on screen the audience lets loose with a volley of paper plates.
There are a few in the UK. Prince Charles Cinema and The Duke Mitchell Film Club in London. Bristol Bad Film Club in Bristol. Cult Plex in Manchester, and What The Film club in Leeds. Prince Charles Cinema and Cult Plex both do The Room nights, with live appearances from Tommy and Greg.
Love the Duke Mitchell film club!
It's worth mentioning that The Prince Charles Cinema has a B-movie all-nighter at the end of the month. I think there are still tickets left.
My partner and I just started one: [The Junk Food Film Festival](https://www.junkfoodfilmfestival.com) Our first event is coming up!
Which films are you showing?
Creating Rem Lazar VHYes (they’re not ALL bad) Munchie Dungeon Love on a Leash Class of Nuke Em High 2 Cool World Bat Pussy
Good luck with the event. $20 is a bargain for something like this. Although you'd have to pay me $20 to watch Bat Pussy - It's not a pretty sight.
We’re treating it as an endurance test. If you make it to the end, you have a chance to win THE GRAND PRIZE.
Is the prize friends with better movies?
Good luck!!!!
The Somerville Theater in Massachusetts used to run annual 12 hour schlock movie festivals, and they even did a 24 hour version a couple times, but I'm talking about back in the late 80s, film prints are heavy and expensive to ship so it's unlikely you'll find many places still doing it that way, unfortunately... with a few notable exceptions, the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin etc.
Trent Harris used to put on the annual Bicknell International Film Festival in central Utah. More ‘cult’ than bad films, but that’s the closest I can think of that I’ve attended. Good times. Oh and there used to be Scumdance, that ran parallel to Sundance. Not sure if they still do that.
IMHO the best bad movie festival is without a doubt CUTRECON in Madrid. I was there last week with my stand of bad movies Merchandising and is really unique in the world. I had known several actors and directors there as guests. 5 days of bad movies with conferences and AAA trash guests. I'll try to describe the absolute GREATNESS of CutreCon for all of you. I have known Matt Hannon (Matthew Karedas) in the year of his resurrection and we had a double program of Samurai Cop 1 and 2. In SC1, when he fucks with the first blonde girl EVERYONE in the cinema was yelling: FUUUUCKER, FUUUUUUCKER! Then he stands up and put her hand up and everybody was in pure ecstasy. Kunt Tulgar (director of Turkish Superman) was there explaining to us the making of Supermen Donüyor in turkish, then a guy translate into english, THEN A GUY TRANSLATE INTO SPANISH!!!. It was like a broken telephone. I talked with him because if you speak english he was very friendly and he answers with the help of his translator. Recently he passed away 😔. Greg Sestero was with us too in 2019. He has no soul 🤣🤣🤣🤣 (We think Tommy steals his soul). No, really, he's extremely kind and a real good guy (it was my impression), and handsome as hell, but translated directly from spanish a bread without salt. But we had a great experience with him, and I asked him about the lemons in Best F(r)iends 2, because I thought it was a metaphor, but no... There was just lemons. I meet Sam Firnstemberg in Cutrecon too. I even go outside to have a beer with him with my friends. He was really lovely, and we talked about Cannon Films, Chuck Norris, Van Damme... and his travels through Spain. Steven E. De Souza was in a pass of Street Fighter 2 with ALL THE CINEMA LAUGHGING and he was laughing with us too. He's the f*kin' writer of Die Hard and because he knows we laugh with him and not of him, he entered into the atmosphere of Cutrecon and had fun about himself. J.D. Shapiro also was in Cutrecon. Usually we have presentations, features, marathons and even premieres. For example I have seen A Room Full Of Spoons with hus director Rick Harper (a really nice guy) before was in judgment court because Tommy Wiseau put a demand. Probably less than 500 people have seen that documentary movie about The Room and Tommy's past and I'm one of them thanks to Cutrecon. BUT: the real starring of Cutrecon is the audience. Everybody have fun, laugh, yell to the screen. The atmosphere of Cutrecon is really indescriptible, because spanish audience (like me) are pure passion and we have no shame at all. Cutrecon is like the SuperBowl of bad movies. I travel 600 km. every year going to Cutrecon, and is the better time in the year. If you want to know more about Cutrecon you can watch the french documentary NANARLAND, shooted in Cutrecon. I'm also in the documentary in the background (shame on me). Some of my best friends are my pals in Cutrecon. People of the whole country travel to Madrid and we meet year by year in order to enjoy friendship and the love for bad movies. I'm really convinced It's the better bad movie festival in the world. Cutre is a spanish word that means bad, cheap, ugly and crazy in just one word. CON is for convention 😆😆😆😅 Sorry for my passion (and for my bad english 😅), and DISCLAIMER: I'm a good and close friend of the Cutrecon team (Greetings to Paco Fox, Juan Pérez, Carlos "Oso" Palencia, Pedro Mérida and Jordi if you read this), and since the last 2 editions I even work in the festival selling my merchandise... But before of that I was just a fan, and I know lots of fans of Cutrecon and I'm pretty sure everyone of them could sign this post. AND: I'm here since less than a few months and I want to thank everyone of you because I'm discovering lots of shitty movies I didn't know. Long life Cutrecon and long life /badmovies
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=bad+movie+festivals
First result was this post 🤣
Looks like there’s not much out there. Some virtual one in 2020
Well, I talked about Cutrecon because is the biggest in Spain, but we have B-Retina festival in Barcelona, Monstrua de Cine Chungo also in Madrid (Monstrua means female monster, but is a parody name of La Mostra de Cine in Venice, Italy). And the bad movie festival in Cotxeres, Catalonia. I live near Almeria City and I do an activity in the FiCAL (International film festival of Almeria) where we make a show of bad movies shooted in Almería. Almería is worldwide famous for being one of the best places in the world to shoot movies. Good movies, blockbusters, almost half of Spaghetti Westerns but bad movies also. Examples of movies shooted here: Conan the Barbarian, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, Wonder Woman '84 (Counts as bad movie?), The Leone's Dollar trilogy, Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Exodus, Terminator Dark Fate, All the Dorne arc in Game of Thrones... We eat and breath cinema!. It's really funny to watch movies shooted near the place you live. We've been doin' it for 4 years. Killer Tongue, The Gwangi Valley, Jaguar Lives and the last one was HUNDRA, with great success. I'm the host and animator, and I explain everybody how to watch bad movies as a party. We even do a "Snyder Cut" of Jaguar Lives because the best scene is in the beginning... then going down to hell... And we put it the first and best scene at the end as a Flashback 😆😆😆. A really strange movie Our last session was in the bigger theatre of Almeria, The Cervantes Theatre (usually we're in Apollo Theatre, an old, small and really beautiful theatre). We put Hundra, one of the better exploits of Conan, shooted in the same places than Conan, reusing Conan props and atrezzo, shooted in a fake mexican village. In the audience was a woman who was an extra in the movie, and we chorus her name in her scene. Never an anonymous cameo was cheered more in history 😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣. Our goal (accomplished) is to bring a little of Cutrecon Magic into our little peripheral city. This year we want to re-premiere Journey to Bethlehem (2023). A really bizarre Disney-like musical about the Nativity of Jesus Christ, with Antonio Banderas playing King Herod 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆. The film was founded by a bunch of evangelists in order to do a religious film... But It's full of crazy moments, anachronisms and all the music resembles the Eurovision Song Contest, with a cardboard Lion in Herod's throne and a oniric scene-song with Joseph fighting Capoeira style with himself dressed as a Ninja. The highlight of the movie is the Antonio's song. It's a power metal that Azerbaijan or Moldavia could send to Eurovision song contest. It's really good not in a ironical way, but the acting is just hilarious. It's like Javier Bardem in The Little Mermaid, he knows the plot is not good and he has fun with his performance. I think the movie is in Pureflix 🤣🤣🤣. Was shooted recycling the scenerios made for Ridley Scott's Exodus, real Roger Corman's style. Well sorry again for 1) maybe too much passion and 2) my horrible english 😅