CHRIS ALEXANDER'S BLOOD SPATTERED BOOK

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A wild, unhinged collection of eccentric essays on oddball horror, dark fantasy and cult movies that refuse to behave!

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TONS of rare colour stills and all new interviews with icons like Tobe Hooper, Amanda Donohoe, Mark Damon, Roger Corman, Mickey Rourke, Norman J. Warren, Alessandro Alessandroni, Fabio Frizzi, Michael Winner and many, many others!

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THIS FEBRUARY at THE BLOOR CINEMA
Chris Alexander’s
FILM SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL!
presents

"Daffy British Supernatural Biker Thriller"
PSYCHOMANIA
Plus
Ken Russell's
LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM
 
Film critic and media personality Chris Alexander (Fangoria, AM 640 Toronto, Metro) presents a new screening and lecture series…It's film school with a twist.
 
Twice a month, every month, Toronto’s legendary Bloor Cinema plays host to a fun filled, educational and totally irreverent master class in cinema history, featuring many oddball motion pictures that rarely ever make the list of any higher education film syllabus.
 
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010, 9:00pm
PSYCHOMANIA    


  
EASY RIDER meets A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by way of ROSEMARY’S BABY in this truly lunatic artifact of post-mod British kitsch. Nicky Henson (THE WITCHFINDER GENERAL) stars as the leader of a London biker gang called “The Living Dead”, a snotty gaggle of leather clad hooligans rebelling against polite society. When Tom’s psychic mother and sinister butler (THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY’s George Sanders) share with him the secret of eternal life through suicide, the gang begin offing themselves in outrageous ways, roaring back as the literal “living dead”. Full of weird violence, ridiculous dialogue and an incredible psyche-rock score by John Cameron, PSYCHOMANIA is a one of a kind cult classic that must be seen to be (dis)believed.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010, 9:00pm
Ken Russell’s THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM

Think you’ve seen it all? Think again! British enfant terrible Ken Russell fulfills the outrageous promise of his 70’s shockers THE DEVILS, TOMMY and LISZTOMANIA with this underrated and often forgotten wallow in lurid sex, vampirism, black comedy and sheer audaciousness, loosely (and we mean loosely) based on a novel by Bram Stoker. Ridiculously sexy Amanda Donohoe (Nicolas Roeg’s CASTAWAY) stars as the decadent, fanged aristocrat Lady Sylvia Marsh who rolls into the British countryside looking for virgins to sacrifice to her mammoth reptile deity. Along the way she runs afoul of a Scottish archaeologist (Peter Capaldi), two recently orphaned sisters (Sammi Davis and Catherine Oxenberg) and a broadsword wielding heir (an early turn by Hugh Grant), all of whom intend to bring her down…in more ways than one. Bursting with over-the-top eroticism, hallucinatory (and offensive) visuals and a wicked sense of humour, this is Ken Russell at his demented best.
 
 
Each screening features an in-depth, entertaining, informative and often humorous lecture from Alexander as well as post-film wrap up and discussion in the Bloor Cinema lounge.
 
Each screening costs $8 with your Bloor Cinema membership and $10 for non-members, with no commitment to attend any other screenings than the ones you wish to attend.
 
For more information go to www.bloorcinema.com and www.chris-alexander.ca
 
This series is kindly sponsored by Severin Films (www.severin-films.com), one of the leaders in eccentric, international exploitation films on DVD and the self professed “Criterion of Smut”and Anchor Bay Entertainment (www.anchorbayentertainment.com) Prizes are provided upon a post screening quiz for the savvier students...
 
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Here's the official cover art for my upcoming - and FIRST - published book, due out in January from legendary niche imprint Midnight Marquee (www.MidMar.com). Thanks to MM publisher and designer Susan Svehla for "getting" the tone of my garish writing and translating it visually. Well done!

More details about the book and where to get it coming soon!

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Chris Alexander’s
Film School Confidential!
presents
Richard Matheson's
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH

Plus

Legendary Canadian Filmmaker Larry Kent hosts as special screening of his 2005 film
THE HAMSTER CAGE

 
Film critic and radio personality Chris Alexander (Fangoria, AM 640 Toronto, Metro) presents a new screening and lecture series…
It's film school with a twist.
 
Twice a month, every month, Toronto’s legendary Bloor Cinema plays host to a fun filled, educational and totally irreverent master class in cinema history, featuring many oddball motion pictures that rarely ever make the list of any higher education film syllabus.
 
Your instructor is Chris Alexander, the “Friday Film Guy” on radio station AM 640 Toronto’s The John Oakley Show, writer for Metro Canada, Canadian correspondent for legendary horror magazine Fangoria and film history teacher at the Toronto Media & Film College.

Thursday, January 14th, 9:30pm
Richard Matheson’s THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (I AM LEGEND)
Forget Will Smith chasing lions and CGI monsters through the streets of NYC, this riveting 1964 Italian/US mood piece is the first – and thus far, best – adaptation of writer Richard Matheson’s groundbreaking existential horror novella I AM LEGEND. Iconic genre star Vincent Price (HOUSE OF WAX) plays Dr. Robert Morgan (Neville in the book), the only immune survivor of a devastating global plague that has turned humanity into shambling, blood hungry vampires. By day he stakes them in their lairs but at night, they claw at his windows and beat at his door, screaming his name and thirsting for his plasma. A lyrical, low budget chiller that rarely strays from the tone of Matheson’s text. Chris Alexander will provide an in depth introduction about Matheson and the effect both the novella and the film has had on vampire fiction.

Thursday, January 28th, 9:30pm
Larry Kent's THE HAMSTER CAGE
Filmmaker Larry Kent will be present for both the introduction and the post-screening Q&A
Legendary Canadian independent director Larry Kent (THE BITTER ASH, HIGH) joins Chris Alexander’s FILM SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL! for a special presentation of his twisted, award winning taboo smashing 2005 movie THE HAMSTER CAGE.  The ultimate in familial dysfunction, Kent’s sick masterpiece charts the sordid events that unfold during a weekend family reunion. Exploring incest, murder and child abuse, THE HAMSTER CAGE is in line with such unsettling but uncomfortably uproarious pictures as Todd Solondz’s HAPPINESS. A must see…especially with Kent himself there to add context.
Larry Kent is available for interviews by request.

 
Each screening features an in-depth, entertaining, informative and often humorous lecture from Alexander as well as post-film wrap up and discussion in the Bloor Cinema lounge.
 
Each screening costs $8 with your Bloor Cinema membership and $10 for non-members, with no commitment to attend any other screenings than the ones you wish to attend.
 
For more information go to www.bloorcinema.com and www.chris-alexander.ca
 
This series is kindly sponsored by Severin Films (www.severin-films.com), one of the leaders in eccentric, international exploitation films on DVD and the self professed “Criterion of Smut”and Anchor Bay Entertainment (www.anchorbayentertainment.com) Prizes are provided upon a post screening quiz for the savvier students...
 
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