T-Fest on July 26th…

Updated on June 12, 2008 By Ken Begg 16 Comments

Once a year our good and generous friend Sandy Petersen, creator of The Call of Cthulhu RPG back in the day, invites some of us to his place to watch a dayload of crap movies. This year, T-Fest (as we call it’ T for Texas) in its fourth iteration will as usual be held in Dallas on Saturday, July 26th. It would probably run from something like 10 in the morning until 1 or 2 that night. Of course people would be free to come and go, and we usually take a good long dinner break at some point.

At least one of Sandy’s picks look to include extreme sexuality (it’s an Asian movie), so be forewarned. I get two picks, and for what its worth, they are both review subjects of the site here.

This is a private affair, but Sandy has plenty of room, so if you think you’d be available and interested in attending, drop me a note at ken@jabootu.com for more details. I can say in the past that people have uniformly had a good time. Well, except for Funky Forest.*

[*I kid, because I love.]

I will bump this up on occasion as warrented.

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  • Roger H

    Is it “In the Realm of the Senses?”

    The most graphic “mainstream” film I ever saw. Kind of what Kubrick was suppose to be doing with Eyes Wide Shut but, chickened out.

  • No, its a genre picture. I’ve seen In the Realm of the Senses, too, in a theater. I’d certainly have to concur that it’s pretty out there.

    Once we firm up the program I’ll list the movies out.

  • Lawyer Ku

    I plan on being there. I still want to know who brought Funky Forest last year. I have a petition to serve upon him for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. And, I believe, my chum the Rev DD, who shared the back row with me last year, would also like to have a word with the culpable party. Out back and out of sight.

  • Far be it from me to put another person’s life in danger, even if I myself am consumed with rage at having sat through that. I mean, if you learned their identity, you might beat on them like Godzilla would STOMP TOKYO.

    So to speak.

  • Ericb

    Mmm, let’s see, Illinois in January and Texas in July. B-moviedom is not for wimps.

  • Actually, it’s a question of making the outside less attractive then the movies being shown.

    That said, heating and air conditioning are wonderful things.

  • Lawyer Ku

    ‘Genre picture’ as in ‘horror’? The oriental movie isn’t “Audition” is it? From what I have heard, that might yield one Ken Begg-shaped cartoon cutout in the wall, Texas heat or no.

  • Huntress

    I still want to know who brought Funky Forest last year.

    What happened? I feel so “outsider” right now. :-)

  • Then join us, Huntress! Join us, and be made one of us.

    OK, not the best offer ever, perhaps. Still…

  • Chad R.

    Funky Forest is a chaotic, disorienting Japanese movie that’s sort of sketch comedy and yet also very much not. The main problem with it was that it’s very looong and I, for one, forgot to look at my watch when it started so I had no idea when the damn thing was going to end. I mean, it just kept going and going…Ugh. I’m going to start having flashbacks if I continue down this road. Afterwards it took a nice meal and Cleopatra Jones before I felt fully recovered.

    And if we screen Audition I’m going to take up smoking just so I have an excuse to duck outside during that one.

  • Dave G

    Any plans for a brief run-down/review of the day? I enjoyed your B-fest review from a while back.

  • And by long, he means Funky Forest is three hours long. And that’s not an exaggeration.

    Audition is not on the list.

  • I don’t know how to describe Funky Forest.

    Normally, T-Fest is a cheery affair. Lots of laughter, humorous comments directed and the screen and each other, a good time for all.

    Then Funky Forest went up on the screen.

    Our smiles melted away and were replaced were looks of confusion and horror. A few half-hearted japes were made, but slowly petered out as we tried to wrap our brains around the film.

    Our spirits were broken.

  • Or, more concisely:

    Funky Forest starts
    It goes on and on and on
    Happiness dies

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Lawyer Ku–Hey buddy! Nice to see ya!
    I think it was Dr. Freex who outed the culprit in his blog, intentionally or otherwise. Anyway, I know exactly who’s to blame, and I will have my vengeance someday.

    Kirk–Are you the Kirk that had a conversation with me about run-ins with spiders and such? Anyway. You’re absolutely right. The rapid-fire pace of the comments and jokes that started off the day never recovered after the thrice-damned Funky Forest. I still bear the scars. It hurt people. And it’s going to continue hurting people until it is stopped.

    Huntress–Think about the heavyweights of bad movie watching who were there–Mr. Begg, Dr. Freex, Mr. Petersen, Mr. Holland, and several of the regulars here. Think about them howling in anguish, or being reduced to numb, shellshocked silence (well, except for the dirty bastard what brung it.) We were forced to call an impromptu break in the middle of it, and some never returned. It was truly Lovecraftian in its horror.

    Mr. Begg–BRILLIANT.
    I love a good haiku, I do.

    Anyone interested in a rundown of last year’s T-Fest, who hasn’t read it already, is invited to hunt down my thoughts on it in the old Jabootu forum (still kickin’!) It’s under “Reader Reviews” with the title “Monsters, Murderous Motorcars and Millipedes.” You’ll need to pull up the option for “all topics” in that forum since it’s over a year old now. *end shameless self-plug*

  • Rev – Yup, that was me. When I think about Funky Forest, I always remember the long periods of horrified silence. The only comments were the occasional “What the f%&k?” or “G%^*@$^*t, who picked this ^(&%^$#@ film?”