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Bristol Bad Film Club announces birthday double bill
Back in 2013, a bunch of local bad film enthusiasts met in a room above a pub in Clifton. Too lazy to travel to London to watch a screening of The Room, they decided instead to launch their own club catering for those who shared their peculiar tastes.
There were plenty of them. Over the next ten years, the Bristol Bad Film Club staged more than 200 screenings, all of which sold out, raising more than £46,000 for local and international charities and causes.
Now it’s time to party. To celebrate this landmark achievement, the Other BBFC is invading a cinema renowned for its devotion to film of a rather higher quality, the Watershed, with a double bill of dubious entertainment. First up is the new one from Neil Breen, who gave a grateful world Fateful Findings and Twisted Pair. Cade: The Tortured Crossing tackles the topical issue of AI with its novel tale of an AI identical twin who restores a spooky old mental asylum and trains its former patients to become warriors for humanity and justice. Alas, his brother has other ideas . . .
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That’s followed by old favourite Samurai Cop (pictured above), which has been described as “both the best and the worst action film ever”. Made in 1990 by Iranian expat film maker Amir Shervan, this boasts a feast of 1980s cop movie cliches, bad editing and absurd fight scenes. “Imagine a low-budget version of Lethal Weapon where Mel Gibson spends most of his time being racist to the Japanese, attempts to sleep with anything that moves and walks around in his pants a lot,” drool the Bad Film enthusiasts.
“From the sheer cheese of the main character’s behaviour to the gratuitous amounts of nudity, everyone is guaranteed to get a laugh, or at least an awkward boner…” enthused one reviewer.
The event takes place on Friday 11 August. You can get individual tickets for each film, with 30% off the total price if you book for both. Go here to buy tickets and for more information.
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