OK, so we ran down the actual T-Fest line-up. However, we watch a lot of stuff off hours as well. A nod to Chad R, T-Fest’s official historian and secretary for keeping track of everything.
The first film we watched, on Thursday night before the Fest, was the shot on video Each Time I Kill (2007), the last ‘movie’ by cult director Doris Wishman. Apparently she was made by then, because John Waters and Fred Schneider made cameo appearances in it. Basically an “ugly” teen girl–basically wearing a bad wig and comic opera bad teeth and with ridiculous make-up pimples–gets a magic locket that allows her to kill girls and steal one physical trait of theirs.
Weirdly, you’d expect a story like this to feature a descent into madness, with the protagonist targeting mean girls first and then picking more and more sympathetic victims as time goes on. Nope, she immediately kills her best friends, first thing, to steal her clear skin. Basically she murders her friends for things she could have gotten from a dermatologist, an orthodontist and a hair stylist. A better movie would have made that part of the narrative, but nope. That said, the movie wasn’t *awful,* it was at least kind of watchable, particularly if you like shots of shoes.
Next Sandy showed The Rottweiler, a not extremely good Spanish horror flick about an escaped prisoner who is pursued by a cyborg dog. The high point is easily Paul Naschy playing the villain, but he’s not in the film nearly enough. Otherwise it’s too long and overly arty and basically displays a lot of things about European cinema that gives one gas. Also this is one of those deals where the ‘hero’ is the one who gets a whole lot of innocent people killed. Not absolutely horrible, but unlikely to show up on anyone’s rewatch list.
