Holyfuckingshit: 2012!
Some HFS movies are like fine wines or single-barrel bourbons — they get better with age. Upheavals in fashion, cinematic style and the passage of time can turn an overlooked or odd little film into a bizarro gem ripe for rediscovery — and then there are the films which arrive fully-formed in their holyfuckingshitness. These truly special little nuggets pop into existance as if they were willed from their creators’ fertile imaginations directly onto the screen, specifically for the slack-jawed amazement of thrill-seeking cinephiles ever eager to plunder the unspooled celluloid pile of the zeigeist. We spent all of last year chasing the dragon, looking for that next hit of pure cinematic weirdness, and the results are in! HFS movies are made, not born. And these movies were made just last year. Holy fucking shit!
Watch the teaser trailer for “Holyfuckingshit: 2012″!
The Most HFS Movie of 2012!
We’re keeping this one a secret. Come on by, and see the single most mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, eye-popping, face-melting, bone-shattering, soul-crushing piece of batshit insanity we saw in 2012. We had to bring out all the adjectives to this one, but we’re keeping the proper nouns to ourselves –- like all good awards, part of the fun is waiting for the envelope. Free popcorn if you guess the right movie upon admission — or, if you’re feeling frisky, ask one of the Cinefamily programming staff. We’ll probably just tell you what it is.
Birdemic 2: The Resurrection (WORLD PREMIERE!)
When Birdemic first hit the Cinefamily screen back in 2010, none of us could’ve ever predicted its meteoric rise into the collective consciousness of film lovers everywhere, or the even-more-so inconceivable idea of a sequel to this epic slice of lunacy. The most discussed and anticipated avian-based disaster film since The Birds, Birdemic: Shock and Terror was equal parts epochal tale and cinematic warning shot from writer/director/dream factory foreman James Nguyen, one of the art form’s most persistent imagineers — and Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, continues the throughline of Nguyen’s intense attention to suspenseful detail. Picking up where the first installment left off, survivors Rod and Nathalie (Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore) are joined by new friends — a struggling filmmaker, an aspiring actress and several other spooked Angelenos — as they battle a flock of evil eagles and villainous vultures over the skies of Hollywood. Years in the making, Birdemic 2 is a testament to Nguyen’s dark, enduring vision.
Dir. James Nguyen, 2013, digital presentation, 90 min.
Watch the trailer for “Birdemic 2: The Resurrection”!
DOUG BENSON'S MOVIE INTERRUPTION: Cloud Atlas
SPECIAL NOTE: we’re adding an intermission for this one. The next installment of Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption, where Doug and his friends (who, in the past, have included everyone from Brian Posehn to Sarah Silverman and Zach Galifianakis) chill on the front row couches, mics in hand, and say whatever hilarious thing pops into their heads while a movie of their choosing unfolds on the screen. For Doug & Co.’s entry in Cinefamily’s Holyfuckingshit!: 2012 film series, it’s time for one of the decade’s most dynamite doozies: Cloud Atlas!
Dirs. Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski, 2012, 35mm, 172 min.
Watch the legendary “extended” trailer for “Cloud Atlas”!
Eega
“Eega is the best film about a man reincarnated as a housefly avenging his own murder that you will ever see. The film is completely insane, endlessly enjoyable, and absolutely unique. Only S.S. Rajamouli could show a fly causing a human to roll his car in a most spectacular fashion to end the first half of the film, and then follow it up by making that seem like mere distraction for the really good stuff.” — J. Hurtado, TwitchFilm
We Cinefamilians absolutely adore our “when animals attack” horror films — but what happens when it’s a human-reincarnated-as-a-housefly flick, and what happens when it’s not a horror film, but a Die Hard-level revenge actioner? The answer is the deliriously deranged Eega, a truly inspired over-the-top piece of 2012 wackiness from the world of Tollywood: one of India’s largest regional filmmaking hubs. Its loopy CGI rendering of a spiteful insect hero seeking to annihilate the mob thug who murdered his previous human iteration, and the out-there lengths to which the director Rube Goldbergs said carnage ensues, is a damned sight to behold.
Dirs. S.S. Rajamouli & J.V.V. Sathyanarayana, 2012, digital presentation, 145 min.
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for “Eega”!
