Hellfire Video Club Saves The World With Turkish Star Wars
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Fri 9 November 2012 // 20:00
(Fri 9th / doors 8pm / £4/3)
This month Hellfire video Club is heading East. A bit. During the 70's and 80's Turkish cinema got into the bootleg business - cranking out scores of remakes of popular western titles. These libellous "homages" were shot cheap and fast and packed with as much sleaze and grue as possible. The Turks have made bonkers and indecipherable remakes of films as far-reaching as "Straw Dogs", "Rambo" and "The Wizard of Oz".
As a primer for the uninitiated we are very excited to be screening "Dünyayý Kurtaran Adam / The Man Who Saved the World” (1982) aka TURKISH STAR WARS! Surely one of the most insane films ever made: With a plot loosely revolving around a mad space wizard trying to steal human brains, this film delivers a psychedelic gut punch of head-spinning editing, shoddy monsters, inept kung fu, Google translation-style subtitles and footage from the George Lucas original ham-fistedly wedged amongst all the Anatolian insanity! Add one of the most powerfully mind-blowing montage scenes known to man and you have an amazing cinematic experience. This is strictly VHS quality, so remember to bring your migraine medication!
In the bar HFVC DJs will be spinning some choice slices of Turkish funk and psych alongside other world-wide-weirdness.
This month Hellfire video Club is heading East. A bit. During the 70's and 80's Turkish cinema got into the bootleg business - cranking out scores of remakes of popular western titles. These libellous "homages" were shot cheap and fast and packed with as much sleaze and grue as possible. The Turks have made bonkers and indecipherable remakes of films as far-reaching as "Straw Dogs", "Rambo" and "The Wizard of Oz".
As a primer for the uninitiated we are very excited to be screening "Dünyayý Kurtaran Adam / The Man Who Saved the World” (1982) aka TURKISH STAR WARS! Surely one of the most insane films ever made: With a plot loosely revolving around a mad space wizard trying to steal human brains, this film delivers a psychedelic gut punch of head-spinning editing, shoddy monsters, inept kung fu, Google translation-style subtitles and footage from the George Lucas original ham-fistedly wedged amongst all the Anatolian insanity! Add one of the most powerfully mind-blowing montage scenes known to man and you have an amazing cinematic experience. This is strictly VHS quality, so remember to bring your migraine medication!
In the bar HFVC DJs will be spinning some choice slices of Turkish funk and psych alongside other world-wide-weirdness.