Leith Short Film Festival
Many apologies for the very late notice on this one. While I was shambling my zombie way through Elvis Shakespeare this evening I noticed a poster for the Leith Short Film Festival. Maybe you live around the corner and get can there now, or maybe, like me, you’ll try and make it along tomorrow night.
A bit late with this one but I hope you’ll forgive us. This month we cover two EZC evenings, Eurocrime and 1974 as well as announcing our upcoming all day event. There’s even going to be a special guest there. More info in the podcast and here as well, once I get around to typing it up. For now, enjoy the melodious sound of our voices.
How many zombies does it take to write an e-zine? Erm, we’re not sure, but some of them have done it! This just dropped into the inbox at Eidnburgh Zombie Club Headquarters.
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Rome Armed To The Teeth (aka Roma a mano armata) – dir. Umberto Lenzi, 1976
Inspector Leonardo Tanzi is a tough detective working the dangerous streets of Rome. His violent method of dealing with criminals is brutal but very effective. He becomes enraged that most of the criminals he catches are released within only a few hours, only to repeat their crimes shortly afterward. Soon Tanzi is taken off the gang-control squad and placed at a desk job by his boss who is not happy with Tanzi’s violent procedures. Consequently, with Tanzi off the streets the gangsters start a wild crime wave, causing widespread corruption and anarchy in the streets. 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 true Eurocrime classic, Rome Armed To The Teeth delivers everything you could want from this sort of film- endless car chases, brutal violence and moustaches.
Contraband (aka Luca il Contrabbandiere) – dir. Lucio Fulci, 1980
Luca Di Angelo is an idealistic family man and dockside worker whom works for a shady underworld smuggler in hauling illegal merchandise, imported cigarettes and booze, down the coastal waterways of Naples, Italy. Things in his life become complicated when his brother and a number of fellow smugglers are murdered by a rival smuggler from France, known as the Marsigliese, whom is determined to become drug kingpin of Italy and wipe out all competition. Luca must join forces with rival Naples smugglers, a powerful Italian Mafia, as well as the local police to track down the French sadist when he abducts Luca’s wife.
What marks Contraband out from other films in the genre is its level of violence and gore. Like any good 70s crime flick, there are countless bullet wounds, bloody beatings and funky fistfights but Fulci ratchets the action up to an almost absurd level. Bullets rip out throats, shower the street with guts, punch big holes in peoples’ faces, and send brains rocketing out the back of skulls. It takes its time to get going, but once it does, there’s no let up, right up until the final, blood soaked shoot out.
Wednesday 28th April, Banshee Labyrinth, 29-35 Niddrie St, Edinburgh. Doors 7pm, first film starts 7.30pm. NOTE NEW VENUE!
The Edinburgh Zombie Club is shuffling its way to a new home. Leaving the good people of the GRV behind, we’re off to our new home at The Banshee Labyrinth! It’s on Niddry Street, it has beer and we’ll be showing movies on the last Wednesday of every month. There’s no change to the door policy; it’s still free and you’re all still welcome! Viva la zombie!
Keeping to the schedule, it’s time for another podcast. Up for discussion this month is the apocalypse, bad hair, golf carts, our new home and men with moustaches getting kicked in the balls.
If you haven’t guessed already, these podcasts may contain adult humour. By that, I mean mean crude humour. You’ve been warned, blah blah blah.
It’s the fourth Edinburgh Zombie Club Podcast. No new voices this time so it’s straight down to the business of discussing last month’s theme; Hong Kong Category III cinema. After that we introduce next month’s theme; Italian Post-Apocalyptic movies!
2019, After The Fall Of New York (aka. 2019 – Dopo la caduta di New York) – Dir. Sergio Martino, 1983
Sergio Martino’s wonderful Italian rip off has to be seen in all it’s leather studded glory and will no doubt become an EZC favourite, you’ll recognise blatant nods to Planet of Apes, Road Warrior, Logan’s Run, Death Race and Escape From New York through out, but there’s enough camp hijinx and fun to get away with it all. It’s certainly the apex in Italian plagiarist sci-fi and easily one of the better films to come out that era, alongside the likes of Enzo Castellari’s Bronx Warriors and New Barbarians. Filled with ridiculous costumes, car chases, bad model skyscrapers, a bizarre fertility subplot and the usual script inconsistencies – “2019” is a real treat for both Post Apocalyptic aficionados and new jacks alike, it also has some of best VHS artwork of the 80’s era, hands down.
Endgame (aka. Bronx lotta finale) – Dir. Joe D’Amato, 1983
Mr. Sleaze bag himself, Joe D’Amato, had a crack at the Post Apocalyptic genre with this ditty. Made up of an inept cast more famous for their porn credits than acting ability – “Endgame” depicts the a post nuclear fall out New York in 2025 where a Running Man-esque TV programme rules the roost and our lead character (the very expressionless) Al Civer is the bait for a plethora of end level boss types. It’s completely daft and predictable, but keep an eye for the rapey fish men which have to be seen to be believed – a nice mutant twist on the sub-genre. A lot of it appears to have been filmed on location in an abandoned quarry too, so nil point for originality, but it makes up for it with some pretty cool fights and weird SS Officer types strutting about like they own the place.
Wednesday 31st March from 7pm onwards. Upstairs in the top floor studio of the GRV, Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. Just head straight up the staircase on your left hand side after entering the front door. Free entry as always!
In our third podcast we welcome The Edinburgh B-Team to the party so that they can tell us all about their upcoming event, their loves of bad cinema and whatever else happens to be on their minds.
We look back with fondness on the A Zombie In The Title double bill from last month and look forward with glee for the upcoming Category III extravaganza we’ve got lined up. If you like monkeys, you might be upset. It’s a bit longer than normal but that just means there’s more fun to be had.
In other exciting news, the podcast is now on Itunes. Your humble admin isn’t particularly iTunes-savvy so let me know is this address doesn’t work and I’ll get that bloke Jobs onto it.
Our friends in trash, the Edinburgh B-Team, have an exciting upcoming event!
Jekyll & Hyde and Cult Fiction Movies would like to invite you all to an evening in the company of Mr David Hess. Star of the infamous video nasty ‘Last House on the Left’. Also in attendance will be Giovanni Lombardo Radice star of ‘Cannibal Ferox’, ‘House on the edge of the park’ (Alongside David), ‘City of the Living Dead’ and many more. The Jekyll will be closed to the non ticket holding public specifically for this icon of the horror genre on March 14th 2010 in an evening packed with everything a budding movie goer could hope for in this fine old gothic venue. There will be movie showings in the crypt bar all evening with intros from David himself, who will be partaking in a Q&A session on the balcony section of the pub along with an opportunity to get your favourite movies signed. The event will be brought to a close with David playing a live set featuring songs from the soundtrack of ‘Last House’ originally composed by himself .
Tickets will be priced at £6/£5 concessions (with an additional small autograph charge). The concessionary price is offered to students, members of the Edinburgh B-Team and The Edinburgh Zombie Club. Tickets are available from the following outlets.
The Jekyll & Hyde, Cult Fiction Movies and Ticket Scotland
We’ll be there, and you should too!
