11.00 AM - FRIDAY 27TH AUGUST - EGGSHELLS

Total Icon Retrospective - Director Tobe Hooper’s little seen and long thought lost debut feature is now a must-see hippy trippy head space fantasy time capsule containing many portents of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE to come. Hooper: “It’s a real movie about 1969, kind of verite but with a little push, improvisation mixed with magic. It was about the beginning and end of the subculture. Most of it takes place in a commune house. But what they don’t know is that in the basement is a crypto-embryonic hyper-electric presence that managed to influence the house and the people in it. The presence has embedded itself in the walls and grows into this big bulb, half-electronic, half organic. Almost like an eye, but like a big light, it comes out of the wall, manipulating and animating. I’ve always described it as being a mixture of Andy Warhol’s TRASH and Walt Disney’s FANTASIA”.

90 mins

Director: Tobe Hooper

Mahlon Forman – Mahlon
Boris Schnurr (Kim Henkel) - Toz
Ron Barnhart – Ben Skabarsak
Amy Lester – Amy
David Noll – David

USA 1969

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