October 21 2008
Coming soon — Incredibly Strange TV
posted by Steven Shaw at 4:06 pm
Starting mid-November, Sky TV’s MGM Channel is teaming up with
Incredibly Strange Film Festival curator Ant Timpson (he’s also the creator of the 48HOURS film making competition) to screen a whacked-out crop of psychedelic, exploitative and just generally freaky films.
Yep, screening from 10:30pm every Saturday night beginning November 15, MGM Channel will play a double feature of cult craziness. Films from the likes of Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and the Shaw Bros. Each Saturday’s lineup will be themed (‘Meyer and the Maniac’, ‘Tune In And Drop Off The Couch’, ‘Return Of The Raincoat Brigade’…) and most of these films have never before been beamed to NZ TV screens. Not even on the old black and white you had in your room when the folks upgraded to colour…
“Late night TV should not be about infomercial and dating lines,” says Ant Timpson, “It should be about coming home from a night out, turning on the TV and letting the devil dance on your pupils.”
He’s also asking film fans to submit TV station “bumpers” — short promos along the lines of this one (the footage is from an old Dristan ad — “Like sending your senses to Arizona — it screened here in the late 60s or early 70s). Go here to see more bumpers.
For more on what Ant Timpson has to say about Strange TV here and to keep an eye on the schedule (it’ll be announced October 31st), go to Incrediblystrange.co.nz.
Note that all Incredibly Strange titles are rated R18 and may contain language, sexual content and violence that will definitely offend some viewers.
Video: A clip from acid trip film The Big Cube (drugs are bad, m’kay?)