EZC Presents : A Deathly Double Bill

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Death Race 2000 (1975, dir. Paul Bartel)
Welcome to the year 2000, now a place plagued by a lack of morals and political unrest. The only thing that society looks forward to is the three-day Transcontinental Death Race, a high-speed competition that is won by the driver who collects the most points by killing spectators and pedestrians. But this year the drivers have something to worry about other than getting killed by rival contestants: there is a group of anti-race activists trying to stop the race for good. The games all-time champion, Frankenstein (David Carradine), takes on such colorful characters as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), Calamity Jane, Nero The Hero and Matilda The Hun.
Dystopian automotive mayhem that predated most other road warrior movies by a good half decade.
Death Wish 3 (1985,dir.Michael Winner)
Architect and part time vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City. A gang of punks kills his friend, he gets his collar felt by some rubbish cops and before you know it he’s back on the streets, waging war against the trash who’re terrorising the neighbourhood, organising the locals to fight back.
By far and away the most ridiculous of the Death Wish films, it’s hard to believe that Winner wasn’t having a laugh when he made this over the top gem, as Bronson merrily slaughters punks left, right and centre, with elephant guns, belt fed machine guns and rocket launchers. Throw in some hilarious one liners and extremely camp villains, this is a laugh riot from beginning to end.
Wednesday 29th May
The Banshee Labyrinth
Niddry St, Edinburgh
7.30pm, free
Aalso, quick reminder about our Best Of The Zombie Club All Dayer featuring:
Death Line
Hausu
Rome Armed To The Teeth
Penitentiary 3
Taoism Drunkard
Sunday 2nd June, from 12.30pm at the Banshee, free!

EZC Presents : The Best of EZC All Dayer!

Posted in Events, Movie night on May 23rd, 2013 by admin – Be the first to comment

Best of EZC!

To celebrate Edinburgh Zombie Club’s fifth birthday in June, we’re going to revisit some of our favourite films we’ve shown over the years in one glorious all day event. We’ll be showing:

  •  Death Line
  • Hausu
  • Rome Armed To The Teeth
  • Penitentiary 3
  • Taoism Drunkard
Death Line (aka. Raw Meat) – (1972), directed by Gary Sherman
Something deeply unpleasant is taking place between Holburn and Russell Square station, when a civil servant disappears on the underground over night, Detective Calhoun leads an investigation into the cannibalistic world of Death Line . Loosely based on the antics of Ayreshire’s very own Sawney Beane family, Pleasence as Calhoun is a total scene stealer from beginning to end. A British cult classic, watch out for Christopher Lee’s creepy cameo as an MI5 spook!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068458/
Hausu (1977) – directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Oshare and her school buddies decide to go on holiday to visit her grandmother in the countryside, only to discover that her nan is actually a stiff and the house is haunted with blood projecting lampshades, man eating pianos and floating heads. This is an utterly surreal and entertaining romp which could only come from Nihon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/
Rome Armed To The Teeth  dir. Umberto Lenzi, 1976
Inspector Leonardo Tanzi is a tough detective working the dangerous streets of Rome.He’s taken off the streets as his pansy waist bosses don’t like his brutal methods but with Tanzi out of action, the gangsters start a wild crime wave, banks are robbed, children are kidnapped, people are killed, and it’s all up to Tanzi to set things straight. Super charismatic Tomas Milian is stupendous as the wisecracking hunchback psycho villain who occasionally likes to gratuitously machine gun innocent bystanders.
A classic slab of Eurocrime, it cemented it’s place in our hearts  with it’s over the top violence, endless ball kickings and  extravagant moustaches.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075152/
PENITENTIARY III (1987, dir. Jamaa Fanaka)
Fitted up and sent down, ‘Too Sweet’ Gordone ends up being sentenced to hard time in a surreal prison where inmates are pawns in a series of brutal fights that are controlled by the sadistic and fey Serenghetti. Being a professional boxer, ‘Too Sweet’ is immediately in demand by both sides for the matches but refuses to play the game for either, which results in Serenghetti releasing his ultimate terror from the dungeon to wreak havoc on the prisoner – the Midnight Thud (The Haiti Kid). I could go on for pages about the character of the Thud, a crack smoking dwarf bum rapist with a taste for oranges and the apparent ability to fly by spinning his arms wildly and growling, but it would take away from the WTF factor of the film. Let’s just call him the greatest character ever written to film and the reason this film has legendary status among the ranks of the Zombie Club.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093714/
Taoism Drunkard (1984, dir Yuen Cheung-Yan)
Any attempt to explain the plot of Taoism Drunkard would ultimately prove as futile as it is utterly unnecessary. Directed by and starring the brother of legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, it is 89 minutes of no-budget non-stop kung fu chaos. What more could you ask for than a drunken kung fu priest who drives around town in a small wicker rat? A wannabe hustler attempting to woo a grieving widow by dressing as a 6ft flaccid dildo (but is thwarted by a bad case of crabs)? and a transvestite grandmother who’s unorthodox style of kung fu is at its most deadly after a few tokes on her trusty hash pipe, or when wielding a ridiculously massive cardboard sword?…Not to mention what must be cinema’s most chilling and ferocious rubber suited monster, straight from the bowels of hell itself, the unstoppable cock-hungry Banana Monster.
All of which is packaged together with plenty of surprisingly inventive and energetic kung fu, and cheekily (if not necessarily accurately) subtitled for comedy value by someone you presume probably should know better. Words simply cannot do justice to this sadly neglected classic of 80s Hong Kong nonsense! Possibly the funniest film we’ve ever shown.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085628/
Sunday 2nd June
The Banshee Labyrinth
Niddry St
Edinburgh
doors 12.30pm
Free.

EZC Presents – A Cannibal Triple Feature

Posted in Movie night on February 21st, 2013 by admin – Be the first to comment

EDINBURGH ZOMBIE CLUB PRESENTS:

A CANNIBAL TRIPLE FEATURE

The Hills Have Eyes (1977, dir. Wes Craven)
A hapless family of city folks break down in the Californian desert and find themselves stranded in the hunting grounds of a family of in-bred cannibals. After spending the night under siege, the survivors fight back against the cannibals, discovering hidden talents for violence.
Based loosely on the old Scottish tale of Sawney Beane, this is up there with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Southern Comfort as a classic of the redneck violence genre.
Troglodytes (2011, dir. Thanos Kermitsis)
In the office of a psychologist, a war veteran starts reminiscing his so far untold war experiences…. sometimes, the horror is still there, even when everything else is over.
A cheeky, unauthorised adaption of Gordon Rennie’s Tunnel Rats, this short film turned out to be a pretty decent effort.

C.H.U.D. (1984, dir. Douglas Cheek)
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Cannibal tramps. Do you really need an more explanation as to why this is a great film?

Wednesday 27th Feb
The Banshee Labyrinth
Niddry St, Edinburgh
7.30pm, free.

EZC Presents – A Creepy House Double Bill

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The House With The Laughing Windows (1976, dir. Pupi Avati)
A remote Italian village harbors unspeakable secrets as young Stefano  discovers when he arrives to restore a decaying painted fresco on the local church’s walls depicting the slaughter of St. Sebastian. Townspeople whisper that the original artist painted directly from real life, with models tortured and murdered all in the name of art. Suddenly a new, terrifying chain of murders begins, and Stefano finds himself caught in a chilling web of madness and unspeakable horror from which he may never escape!
An unusual, atmospheric giallo.
The House By The Cemetery (1981, dir. Lucio Fulci)
Dr. Norman Boyle, of the New York Historical Society, accepts a research assignment abandoned by a colleague who has committed suicide. The project requires the researcher to temporarily take up residence in a New England mansion along with his wife, Lucy and their son. Norman discovers his colleague had become consumed with the history of the home’s original owner, a turn-of-the-Century surgeon named Dr. Freudstein who possessed a fondness for illegal experiments. Further investigation reveals Freudstein had found a way to stay alive by using cells derived from fresh human blood. The Boyles find out the hard way that the maggot-stuffed, undead doctor remains lurking in the shadows of the house, killing anybody who crosses his path.
A classic Fulci gorefest, it’s up there with “The Beyond” and “City of the Living  Dead”, and in common with those films, it favours an unnerving atmosphere mixed with visceral shocks over coherence. Just sit back and enjoy the decapitations.
Wednesday 28th November
The Banshee Labyrinth
Niddry Street
Edinburgh
7.30pm, free!

EZC Presents – Halloween Night

Posted in Movie night on October 13th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment

HALLOWEEN NIGHT

 

Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982, dir. Tommy Lee Wallace)
A doctor stumbles across an evil plot involving black magic, Halloween masks and a stolen chunk of Stonehenge. Can he thwart the evil plans of the Silver Shamrock mask company before they slaughter thousands of kids on Halloween night?
After Halloween II, John Carpenter decided the saga of Michael Myers had run its course and had the idea that series should feature different tales set on Halloween, and this uncredited Nigel Kneale penned little shocker is a refreshing change from the rest of the series. However, it didn’t do well at the box office, and the producers played safe by bringing back Michael Myers for subsequent movies, which is a shame as this is an effective horror movie in its own right, with Carpenter regular Tom Atkins giving a solid performance as the hapless doctor, plus a trademark Carpenter score.
Night Of The Creeps (1986, dir. Fred Dekker)
To fulfill a fraternity pledge, two college friends attempt to steal a cryogenically frozen cadaver from the university laboratory. Unfortunately, the body is infected with an alien experiment gone awry and the campus is soon crawling with zombies. It falls to a couple of kids and a hard-boiled cop to save the world from the creeps…
Fred Dekker’s love letter to the B-movie, Night of the Creeps is a perpetual treat and a master class in goofball horror. A throwback to simpler times, if you’re entertained by zombie cats, hot chicks with flame throwers, and any film that comes up with new, creative uses for lawn mowers, then this is your movie.
WEDNESDAY 31ST OCT
THE BANSHEE LABRYNITH
NIDDRY ST
EDINBURGH
7.30PM, FREE!
PLUS MORE FILMS RIGHT THROUGH THE WITCHING HOUR!

EZC Presents – Holidays From Hell

Posted in Movie night on August 7th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment

Race With The Devil

Two couples taking a motor home trip trip in the American south rubberneck what they think is a hippie orgy, only to discover it’s a murderous Satanic ritual. They make a blundering getaway, only to be pursued across the state by the Satanists, who’re hellbent on sending them to the big man downstairs.

A great mix of backwoods horror with the Satanic scare movies popular at the time, this is a fantastic movie, with some great action sequences and a creepy, paranoid atmosphere there doesn’t let up until the unforgettable ending.

Sleepaway Camp

Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela’s arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Not the goriest of slasher movies but its twist ending ensured its place in horror history.

This month’s night is on the 29th of August and, as always, we’ll be starting at 7:30pm in the Banshee Labyrinth. This month we’re proud to be part of Scala Beyond!

All Night Horror Madness!

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It’s time for another round of All Night Horror Madness at the Cameo! Without further ado, here are the details:

After three amazing, sell-out shows ALL NIGHT HORROR MADNESS has earned a blood-spattered reputation as the wildest kind of fun legally possible within the walls of a Scottish cinema. And now the legend returns to Edinburgh to continue its unstoppable reign of carnage!

You’re invited to the Cameo Cinema to devour a 4th stunning selection of stonewall classic horror films on the big screen. FIVE HORROR MOVIES IN A ROW! Through the entire night of Saturday 10th March 2012.

Come and savour an atmosphere The Edinburgh Reporter calls “electric” and the event The Journal describes as “an authentic, vintage technicolour rainbow of blood, guts, gore and bones, considered one of the best nights on the Scottish calendar.”

Featuring…

  • Underground 80s grime epic BRAIN DAMAGE…
  • Wes Craven’s surreal masterpiece A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET…
  • Demented Italian trash shocker THE NIGHTS OF TERROR…
  • Ultimate 80s zombie party classic THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD…
  • And all kicking off with a SURPRISE MOVIE!

Three films screening from vintage 35mm prints…Five more ultra-rare screenings of the goriest, funniest and craziest horror movies of all time. Plus vintage horror trailers and a free raffle!

Saturday 10th March 2012 11pm till early…£17.50/£15.50 (conc.)

Book early to avoid disappointment on/at: 0871 9025723 or www.picturehouses.co.uk

Well there you have it. A stonking line up I’m sure you’ll agree!

 

 

 

EZC Podcast – George Kennedy

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You’d think that with only three of us we’d struggle to fill an hour. Well, you’d be wrong. The usual content warnings apply.

 
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EZC Presents : Token Zombie Film Night

Posted in Movie night on January 22nd, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment
EDINBURGH ZOMBIE CLUB PRESENTS
TOKEN ZOMBIE FILM NIGHT
featuring…
NIGHTMARE  CITY (1980, dir. Umberto Lenzi)
A mysterious plane lands in an Italian airport, disgorging a bunch of radioactive, tooled up zombies, who overwhelm the cops and spread mayhem across the city. These are no ordinary zomibes, they can drive, shoot guns and lay traps and conquer the city with the ruthless efficiency of an invading army.
You could see it as a salient warning over the use of nuclear power, but in fact it’s just ridiculous, unrelenting gory fun.
WILD ZERO (2000, dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi)
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
A piece of preening insanity, this features guitar/flamethrower combos, hordes of zombies, a UFO plus a drinking game that can be played along with it.
WEDNESDAY 25TH JANUARY 2012
THE BANSHEE LABRYNITH
NIDDRY ST
EDINBURGH
7PM, FREE!
BRING YOUR UNWANTED DVDS FOR THE SWAP BOX.

Bunker

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