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2012 B-movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival: Official Lineup

By Mike Everleth ⋅ September 4, 2012

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The theme for this year’s B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival, held in the city of Breda in the Netherlands, is “Apocalypse.” So get ready to watch the world end dozens of different ways on Sept. 5-9 at various venues around the city.

The fun kicks off on the 5th with the German movie Hell by director Tim Fehlbaum. If you didn’t know, “hell” means “bright” in German and, given that title, this flick is set appropriately in a post-apocalyptic future where global warming has decimated the planet and surviving tribes battle for water and food.

Other post-apocalyptic visions include Milan Konjevic’s Zone of the Dead starring legendary zombie killer Ken Foree; Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro’s Bazillian underground hit Beyond the Grave about a world where magic and madness rule the world; and Rob van Eyck’s bizarrely twisted Afterman and Afterman 2.

Not all the films at the fest feature the end of the world, though. BUTFF will be debuting the highly anticipated new film from Spanish surrealist Carlos Atanes called Gallino: The Chicken System, a nearly indescribable movie that the filmmaker calls a “pornophilosophical movie.”

Plus, there are loads of movies filled with deranged maniacs and sick freaks, such as the controversial Morituris by Raffaele Picchio that features acts so sadistic many viewers don’t make it to the end of the film; plus there’s Matthias Olof Eich’s Break and Matt Farnsworth’s The Orphan Killer.

Other films in the lineup include Spencer ParsonsSaturday Morning Massacre, which is another big hit on the underground circuit that updates a beloved children’s mystery cartoon; classic ’70s exploitation flicks like Andy Sidaris’ Seven and Jerry Jameson’s Brute Corps; the documentary about accused and arrested Canadian makeup artist Remy Couture, Art/Crime; the ghost hunting Evil by Peter Bebjak; the “hooker reincarnated a gun” fun of Calibre 9 by Jean-Christian Tassy; and tons more.

As usual, the BUTFF is jammed packed to the gills with extreme cinematic visions. The full film lineup is below and please visit the official B-movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival website for more info.

September 5

8:00 p.m.: Hell, dir. Tim Fehlbaum. In the future, global warming has wiped out most life on Earth and a small band of humans struggle for survival.

September 6

4:00 p.m.: Masks, dir. Andreas Marschall. A young actress decides to take some classes to hone her craft and becomes involved in a dangerous and controversial process that pushes her to extremes.

4:00 p.m.: Phoebe Phoenix, dir. Gerry Schuster. While a singer’s career completely stalls out in her own universe, unbeknown to her she becomes a big hit in a parallel universe thanks to an unscrupulous producer.

6:00 p.m.: Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy. A murdered hooker gets revenge from the grave against her killers when her spirit possesses a gun.

6:00 p.m.: Zone of the Dead, dir. Milan Konjevic. A group of police officers are transporting a dangerous prisoner when they get caught in a zombie apocalypse. Starring Ken Foree.

6:00 p.m.: Evil, dir. Peter Bebjak. A team of ghost investigators stumble onto their most extreme and frightening case.

8:00 p.m.: Seven, dir. Andy Sidaris. A group of seven mercenaries must stop an evil cabal from taking over the state of Hawaii.

8:00 p.m.: Break, dir. Matthias Olof Eich. A group of girls on a weekend getaway run afoul of deranged maniacs.

8:00 p.m.: Pablo & Poezie, dir. Leo Verheul. In this documentary, Dutch poet Mayor Jules Deelder attends a poetry festival in Colombia.

10:00 p.m.: Brute Corps, dir. Jerry Jameson. A couple hitchhiking through Mexico comes across a group of sadistic ex-military men.

10:00 p.m.: Morituris, dir. Raffaele Picchio. Three men brutally torture two women.

10:00 p.m.: Monk3ys, dir. Drew Cullingham. Three men become trapped in a room in which they may or may not be the subjects of a disastrous psychological test.

September 7

2:00 p.m.: “Korte Films Studente”

4:00 p.m.: Masks, dir. Andreas Marschall. A young actress decides to take some classes to hone her craft and becomes involved in a dangerous and controversial process that pushes her to extremes.

4:00 p.m.: “Student Films + BUTFF Student Award”

6:00 p.m.: Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy. A murdered hooker gets revenge from the grave against her killers when her spirit possesses a gun.

6:00 p.m.: House in the Wind of Death, dir. Francesco Campanini. In 1947 Italy, a disgraced movie star and a gang of robbers hide from the police in a house that’s possessed.

6:00 p.m.: “Shorts Blok 2”
Les bessones del carrer de ponent
Sink Hole, dir. Greg Hanson
There Goes My Baby
Metal Creepers
Historia Muerta
Rotten Romance
Washed Ashore
Justus: Cinema of the Dead

6:00 p.m.: Afterman, dir. Rob van Eyck. A lone man tries to survive in a vicious post-apocalyptic world in which men have been reduced to savages.

8:00 p.m.: Morituris, dir. Raffaele Picchio. Three men brutally torture two women.

8:00 p.m.: The Orphan Killer, dir. Matt Farnsworth. A serial killer attempts to teach his sister the true meaning of family loyalty.

8:00 p.m.: Afterman 2, dir. Rob van Eyck. Once again, a man tries to survive an absurd post-apocalyptic world.

10:00 p.m.: Bloodline, dir. Edo Tagliavini. A journalist returns to the scene where her twin sister had been brutally murdered years ago.

10:00 p.m.: Beyond the Grave, dir. Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro. In a post-apocalyptic world that’s ruled by magic and mayhem, a police officer desperately searches for a possessed serial killer.

10:00 p.m.: Zyklon Zombies, dir. Thomas van Troostenberghe & Davy Bonny. After Nazi experiments have turned prisoners into zombies, the dead come back for revenge.

September 8

12:00 p.m.: Gangster Exchange, dir. Dean Bajramovic. Two Serbian mobsters must transport a toilet filled with cocaine across the border.

12:00 p.m.: Saturday Morning Massacre, dir. Spencer Parsons. In this parody of old ’70s mystery cartoon shows — you know which ones — a group of meddling kids investigate a series of brutal murders that have taken place at an abandoned schoolhouse. (Watch online)

12:00 p.m.: Four Boxes, dir. Wyatt McDill. Three kids attempt to figure out if the disturbing videos they found on the Internet are actually real murders taking place.

2:00 p.m.: Bloody Mary 3D, dir. Charlie Vaugn. A vengeful spirit is accidentally summoned from a mirror.

2:00 p.m.: Remington and the Zombadings, dir. Jade Castro. A young man starts to transform into a homosexual after being cursed by a drag queen.

4:00 p.m.: Breakdown Reward, dir. Elias Georgopoulos. Three low level crooks steal a treasure from some mobsters who will go to any length to get it back.

4:00 p.m.: “Kort Film Blok Animatie”
Bobby Yeah
Princesse
The Last Bus
A Morning Stroll
The Game
Prohveti sünd
Lazarov

4:00 p.m.: Die Farbe, dir. Huan Vu. In this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story, “The Color Out of Space,” a son sets out to find his missing father.

6:00 p.m.: Evil, dir. Peter Bebjak. A team of ghost investigators stumble onto their most extreme and frightening case.

6:00 p.m.: Bloody Bloody Bible Camp, dir. Vito Trabucco. Kids attending a Bible camp out in the woods are stalked by a masked killer.

6:00 p.m.: Inside the Whore, dir. Reinert Kiil. On the set of the film Hora strange things begin to affect the cast and crew. But, is this “making of” film a documentary or a mockumentary?

8:00 p.m.: House in the Wind of Death, dir. Francesco Campanini. In 1947 Italy, a disgraced movie star and a gang of robbers hide from the police in a house that’s possessed.

8:00 p.m.: A Little Bit Zombie, dir. Casey Walker. Although a meek HR manager turned zombie is consumed with eating brains, he battles that desire so as to keep his impending wedding on track.

8:00 p.m.: Art/Crime, dir. Frédérick Maheux. This documentary covers the tragic tale of Rémy Couture, a Canadian special effects makeup artist who was arrested on charges of obscenity and corruption of morality.

10:00 p.m.: Gut, dir. Elias. A man who feels like he’s just sleepwalking through life watches an incredibly disturbing video that shakes his universe to the very core.

10:00 p.m.: Gallino, The Chicken System, dir. Carlos Atanes. A pornophilosophical movie.

September 9

12:00 p.m.: Breakdown Reward, dir. Elias Georgopoulos. Three low level crooks steal a treasure from some mobsters who will go to any length to get it back.

12:00 p.m.: Zone of the Dead, dir. Milan Konjevic. A group of police officers are transporting a dangerous prisoner when they get caught in a zombie apocalypse. Starring Ken Foree.

12:00 p.m.: “Shorts Blok 3”
Coffeebreak
Die Die My Darling
Help me
Leyanda
Die waffen des Eros
Unfarewell
Greeting From Belgrade
Hansel und Greazel

2:00 p.m.: Bloody Bloody Bible Camp, dir. Vito Trabucco. Kids attending a Bible camp out in the woods are stalked by a masked killer.

2:00 p.m.: “Masterclass: Remy Couture”

4:00 p.m.: The Orphan Killer, dir. Matt Farnsworth. A serial killer attempts to teach his sister the true meaning of family loyalty.

6:00 p.m.: The Humanoid, dir. Aldo Lado. This is a ’70s era Italian rip-off of Star Wars.

6:00 p.m.: Crack Whore, dir. Lance Polland. A prostitute gets revenge against some good ol’ boys who take advantage of her.

8:00 p.m.: “Mysterie Movie”