It's Almost Time for Hooker to Hit Philly!

Fill the tank up, turn off the Journey, grab a Pabst and a shot of Jim Beam because 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk' will be hitting Bob & Barbara's Lounge this Tuesday, September 14th. Holy fuck. And there Pabst with a shot of JB (the special) is a mere $3.50! Here's what they (City Paper's Arts and Entertainment Blog) are saying --

"Bob & Barbara’s is really the only spot in the city that deserves to screen the east coast premiere of the Canadian movie Dead Hooker in a Trunk.

But deceased ladies of the night aren’t all that Greg Christie is interested in. “Mounting repertory film in Philadelphia has always been difficult,” says Christie. “I think its struggling right now in the wake of Netflix because showing the film, even if it’s on 35 mm, isn’t enough.”

The former TLA Video manager recently got back from a stint in Austin, where he was impressed by the formidable Alamo Drafthouse. “They have programming every night and it’s always sold out because it’s not just film,” says Christie, siting the ATX moviehouse’s drinks service and their penchant for activities on the side, like quote-a-longs.

So when it came to putting on his own weekly screening series at the lovable South street dive, Christie thought outside the box. “I’m trying to film events that are more interactive parties,” Christie says, “rather than just film screenings.” Christie’s solution is to bring in the Swellco & Swellco Video Circus, aka the minds behind Anti-Bestiality Educational Awareness and similar exploits, to perform burlesque once a month during his events.

For their first mutual offering on Tue., Sept. 14, Christie and Swellco will present the aforementioned Dead Hooker in a Trunk. Along with the movie screening and performance there will be a dead hooker costume contest and a performance by the one and only filthy Neil Diamond impersonator Dirty Diamond.

Other events include a screening of Cory McAbee’s sci-fi/Western/musical Stingray Sam and a film from the makers of Tokyo Gore Police and The Machine Girl, with a special presentation by Japanese burlesque group Tokyo Dolores.

“I don’t want to get pigeonholed,” Christie says about his film choices. “I want to program films that will work in a bar setting. We want to make Bob & Barbara’s a premier setting for independent and foreign film.”"

Mr. Christie you make fucking rad entertainment! Thank you for hosting the East Coast premiere for Hooker.

This is going to be fucking epic. There is a dead hooker costume contest - send us your pictures, we have gifties for you if you do (and I know there will be prizes at this screening, too!). There are prizes galore, performances by Dirty Diamond and the Dead Hooker Dancers, Louise LaTease and Keycifer, and all the cock rock your ears can handle spun by DJ Dan 5! I want to be there so bad - so I need you, girls and boys, to rock out as hard as you can and tell me what a rad time you had. I will party vicariously through you. It will be mega.


~Jen and Sylv


Tomorrow (September 11) is the last screening at Cinefantasy in Brazil! ¡Disfrute de su prostituta!

Arizona Underground Film Fest will be Hotter than Hell with DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK

It is with GREAT pleasure that we Twisted Twins announce the Arizona premiere of DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK at this year's Arizona Underground Film Festival!! Watch the fuck out, Arizona! Now it's your turn!! Here's what they're saying about the festival....

"Arizona Underground Film Festival is Arizona’s only premier underground cult film festival! Being a non-profit film festival, we make it our sole mission to showcase the work of filmmakers with defiantly independent visions. We are on a quest to represent every genre of independent film from across the world celebrating the artist, and their work.

Now in our third year we are taking Arizona by storm with screenings in both Tucson and Phoenix during the week of Sept 18th to 25th. This 8 day festival will cover categories from Narrative, Horror, Documentaries, Experimental, Animation, and we are proud to be the only festival to offer an Exploitation category. Join us in the underground!"

DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK will be playing on September 25th at the Screening Room (127 E. Congress Street Tucson, AZ). The festival is taking place from September 18th to 25th. If you are in, around, or near the Arizona area, this is your chance to see DHIAT for yourself and see what all the excitement is about!! Please drop us a line and let us know about you Dead Hooker experience!!

Spread the word, and come get some!!

Full festival info can be found here!!

XO,
Jen

Bangers and Mash and Dead Hookers galore!

Watch out, Europe! DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK is coming your way and the Abertoir Horror Film Festival is where it all starts. The never before seen edition of DHIAT has hopped the pond and we couldn't be happier.

"With more than 20 films on offer from around the world, including UK premieres, cult screenings and classics, we are delighted to be offering a massive variety of other events that will give fans of horror something truly memorable. Films, music, theatre, book signings, special guests, prizes and bar promotions will turn this peaceful seaside town into a haven for lovers of the macabre- so lock up your grannies, Abertoir is coming!"

For those of you in the Dead Hooker know, you may recall that earlier this year during Women In Horror month (started by femme fatale extraordinaire and beloved honorary Soska sister, Hannah Neurotica of Ax Wound zine) the film rocked hard at the Ghouls on Film Festival. A very special thanks to Nia Edwards-Behi for making it possible. It should come as no surprise at all that this incredible woman would play a pivotal role in bringing DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK back to the UK! This time, DHIAT will be rocking the gore~geous Abertoir Horror Film Festival at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre on the beautiful coast of Mid-Wales. The festival is running from November 10th to 14th. A very special thanks to Nia and our favorite guy across the pond, Andrew McQuade of Gorezone for making this dream a reality!!

Check out all the info on the fest here!!

And treat yourselves to the film festival trailer below!


Bloody best, boys and grrls!!
XO
Jen

Dead Hooker In A Trunk hits up a Pub in Philly

I don't know if it's always sunny in Philly, but I do know that it's always wicked awesome. That's due simply to the fact that Philadelphia is home to Bob and Barabara's Lounge. What, pray tell, is this incredible place? Well, since you asked nicely...

"Bob & Barbara's, owned by Jack Prince (former partner of JJ's Grotto) maintains its position as one of Philly's most authentic and funky Jazz venues. Although an extensive menu of chili dogs and chips is now available for your dining pleasure, the accent is on the music and good times. A racially mixed bar, Bob & Barbara's is the classic organ lounge. Tenor man Nate Wiley has passed, but The Crowd Pleasers jam Sunday nights until 2:00 AM. Drinks are a little more expensive during music sets, but not enough to break you. It's downright cheap, so long as you lay off the Courvoisier. Since B&B has been "discovered" Fridays and Saturdays tend toward the familiar repertoire (Misty, Satin Doll, and lowdown blues) which Nate describes as "liquor drinkin' music". If you're looking for a more straight-ahead boppish vein, come when the art students have left, for the jam sessions"
Sundays, they host a jam session. Veterans and newcomers alike are allowed as many choruses as will please the crowd, and no more. Less experienced players are tolerated, even encouraged, but never coddled.

There is an eclectic mix of music on other nights, and even a drag show on Thursdays. A welcome oasis on an otherwise somewhat desolate block of South Street."

On Tuesday, September 14th, our beloved baby, DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK will be pulling up a chair, ordering itself a SPECIAL (seriously, it's only $3.50??), and spending the night with the locals. There will even be Dead Hooker dancers (yes, I want pics and videos, please and thank you) and costumes and dead hooker hilarity to be had by all. Just don't put on Journey, whatever you do....

And definitely treat yourself to a special. WHAT'S a special?! Here's a hint....




Drinking age is enforced, so don't be getting any ideas, boys and grrls....


So, get your butts to THE place to be SEPTEMBER 14th!!

And send us your pics and we'll post 'em here, maybe even send a SPECIAL GOODIE to whoever sends us the BEST pic of the night!!

XO,
Jen

To Brazil, With (Dead Hooker) Love...

"Na bela Vancouver, quarto amigos começam mais um dia de trabalho e o terminam brigando por suas vidas quando eles descobrem o corpo de uma prostituta deixado em seu porta-malas. O grupo tem de deixar de lado suas diferenças para sumir com o corpo antes que eles sejam os próximos no porta-malas."

Translation?

"Set in beautiful Vancouver, four friends set out on an everyday errand and end up in a fight for their lives when they discover the body of a dead hooker left in their trunk.
The group has to put aside their differences to dispose of the body before they're next."

Today is the day! DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK is making it's Brazilian Premiere (yes, with subtitles) at the 5th annual CineFantasy Festival Curta Fantastico!! It shall be playing today with an encore presentation September 11th! Thank you, Brazil, for inviting our Dead Hooker to your party. We can't wait to hear what you think of the film! We are honored to be a part of this year's film festival.


Check out full details on the film festival at their official site HERE.

Party hard, Brazil!!!

Blood soaked best,
Your Twisted Twins
Jen and Sylv

Holy Fuck, Boston, It's Tonight!

What the Boston Phoenix has to say is...


Get your finest off the hangers and get a crisp five dollar bill out of your wallet - 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk' plays at ALL THINGS HORROR'S Five Bucks for a Night of Indie Horror Event TONIGHT!! Show starts at 8pm at the Somerville Theater (55 Davis Sq) and Hooker will be playing with three fantastically fukt short flicks - 'Side Effects', 'Taste of Flesh, Taste of Fear', and 'Rubber Whore Hell'. Looks like it's going to be a rad night! Please let us know what you think of the show, we'd love to hear from you all, girls and boys!


Also, it's a very special anniversary as All Things Horror celebrates its first. I think these fine gents are the bees knees and couldn't be happier for them! Mike, Chris - congratulations and keep up the fabulous work. Here's to a great screening and many more years of cool reviews and events to come!

~Jen and Sylv

Okay, You Be the Doctor and I'll be the Dead Hooker...

"I received a copy of the film with accompanying vinyl, catchy, creative and collectible bumper sticker from who, I can only imagine, are the fabulous, flying Soska Sisters. This led me to believe that somewhere in this great blue marble a force beyond me, somewhat awe inspiring and highly influential (that's Kristy Jett folks)told me to write this review. And then something about, if I write... they will come.. then I got freaked out and peed. After seeing the movie, I peed again, vomited and put my jock strap with pre-inserted cup on (because if the Soskas are coming, it's worse than if they entire cast of Hostel was given your home address and a buy one, get one free coupon)."

This is just a small part of the beginning of the new review of 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk' from the hilarious and charismatic from Dr. James 'Jimmy' Terror of Dr. Terror's Blog of Horrors. What is the Blog of Horrors?

"DR. TeRRoR's BLoG oF HoRRoRs

Introducing, for the first time on this stage or any other, a HORROR Host for a generation that does not want or realize that it NEEDS A HORROR HOST... yet... From the bowels and brains of American International to the rib cage and eye sockets of Amicus, Dr. James Terror will write your eyes shut with, well ... TERROR!!! (and perhaps a bit of camp now and again for flavor)"

The doctor's use of language is comical, graphic, and awesome. It's a very fun and informative blog - without spoilers - meaning you can read them without finding out who kills who, what goes into where, and Bruce Willis was dead all this time until you're good and ready. I really enjoyed reading this review, it's great for those of you who haven't seen Hooker yet and are going spoiler-free until you do. Here's one of my favorite parts --

"There's nothing like a creepy old man with a goat. Further I say there's nothing quite like that man fucking a dead body. I haven't seen necrophilia like that since grade school (Clerks). This movie is the Breakfast Club in drag or the blood equivalent of drag. What happens when the whiny emota-Christians with their hymnals meet up with the dope swallowing, vamp-punk, pee while standing up crowd? It's Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein. It's Molly Ringwald giving her earring to Judd Nelson... or at least it feels that way. Stereotype bending, youth growth film with the best damn hand gun blasts to the head and love that chainsaw scene. Savini would love the originality of the texture of the brains (if not realistic it certainly was aesthetically pleasing)."

Thank you, doctor. I'm feeling much better after that. I'll read it twice more and call you in the morning. So stoked that you dug the flick! Thank you for passing along the word about it. Very fucking rad. Read the whole medicinal piece here. Enjoy!

~Sylv