July 31, 2005
Chicgago Underground Film Festival 411
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http://www.myspace.com/livefreakydiefreaky and visit the official website http://www.livefreakydiefreaky.com LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY! THURSDAY AUGUST 25 8:00 PM THEATER ONE LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY! JOHN ROECKER FEATURE 80:00 VIDEO MIDWEST PREMIERE "A jaw-dropping epic of bad taste" - THE OREGONIAN "A Disney movie gone Helter Skelter..." - JUXTAPOZ "The most deliciously tasteless piece of filmmaking since John Water's Pink Flamingos!" - PAPER MAGAZINE “Because we love you, here is the Chicago premiere of John Roecker’s very X-rated LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY! an ultra-twisted, two-years-in-the-making, pornographic, stop-motion animation musical comedy retelling of the Manson crimes (!), voiced by a legion of punk rock icons and featuring more assaulting bad taste than the entire John Waters canon! It’s the inaugural production of Rancid/Operation Ivy frontman Tim Armstrong’s Hellcat Films (Armstrong also narrates and composed part of the score) and given today’s climate, it certainly won’t be coming soon to a multiplex near you. So then, come along and witness the hellacious happenings of Charlie Hanson (Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong) and his stoned squad of psychedelic sociopaths Hadie (Lunachicks’ Theo Kogan), Hex (X’s John Doe), Squeeky (Jane Weidlin of The GoGo’s) and company as they have hardcore claysex (yes, we're talking puppet penetration shots!), raid bins and ultimately shock the plastic world with a brutal attack at the home of Sharon Hate (Kelly Osbourne under a pseudonym)! Other celebrity voices include Asia Argento, Nick 13, Lars Frederiksen, Jen Johnson, Matt Freeman, Kim Chi and Davey Havek! Is it offensive? VERY. So much so that animators quit throughout the production when they saw how far this was going and one U.S. booking had its dates cancelled after the cinema’s owner attended a screening and went ballistic. No joke, this film is inflammatory to an almost impossible degree. Sacred cows are torn limb from limb and virtually every line is calculated to outrage, sometimes with clever wit, often with the most volatile vulgarities imaginable. And of course, everything onscreen, from the trippy characters to the wicked-looking sets, is stylishly hand-sculpted the old-school way, giving the film the perverse feel of that early ’70s Rudolph Christmas special taken over by deviants who want to show you the funny side of necrophilic rape. Roecker and his punk-rock pals are going to creepy-crawl your value system, rearrange your furniture and leave you wondering what the hell just happened. Consider that a promise. And a warning.” - Mitch Davis
Posted by MK Magazine at July 31, 2005 12:45 PM