Director Charles Pinion in attendance for post-screening Q&A hosted by Annie Rose Malamet (Girls, Guts, & Giallo) . Brief Intermission between films.
Red Spirit Lake (1993, 69 Minutes)
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harnass the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate. A meditation on The Old Dark House replete with UFO abductions, castration, frank nudity, witchcraft, fatal fistings, and slughterous saunas; Red Spirit Lake is a cacophony of subversive hyper violence, psychotic surrealism, salacious sexual chaos, and picturesque winter vistas with an an insurgent soundtrack featuring music by Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, and The Lunachicks.
We Await (1996, 54 Minutes)
Set in San Francisco's Mission district, a con artist is held captive by an unhinged cannibal family that ingests copious quantities of hallucinogenic, green fungal goo covertly harnessed from an otherworldly, sentient crystal housed in their third third floor apartment of horrors. We Await is a shot on video, urban riff on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that slowly descends into a psycho sexual, drug-fueled, analog aurora borealis nightmare like no other; boasting a blistering soundtrack featuring music by Crash Worship, Neurosis, and Unsane.
About the Filmmaker:
Charles Pinion is a visual artist and director who made the punk rock skateboard zombie movie Twisted Issues, the post-Cinema of Transgression witches in the snow movie Red Spirit Lake, and the gritty San Francisco cannibal movie We Await. His 3D feature American Mummy premiered at the Revelation Film Festival in Australia. His latest is the short film Try Again, "a hopeful film about suicide". Charles lives, writes, paints, and walks his dogs in Los Angeles.
About the Host:
Annie Rose Malamet is an internationally recognized lesbian vampire expert, freelance film writer, and perverted aesthete. She is the creator of the popular podcast Girls, Guts, & Giallo, where she examines controversial and subversive cinema through the lens of queer leather and sex work history and sensibilities. Annie has lectured and presented work at festivals and colleges in both the United States and Europe. She has appeared as a cultural expert in the Shudder documentary Queer for Fear, the PBS show Historian’s Take, and on BBC Radio 4. Her essays and reviews have been in various publications over the last decade. She has contributed essays and audio commentary for special editions released through Second Sight, Severin Films, and Vinegar Syndrome.