Bar Trash: Season Thirteen – SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES!
SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES! celebrated theatrical gimmicks & was our full-throated tribute to the greatest cinema showman of all, William Castle.
SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES! celebrated theatrical gimmicks & was our full-throated tribute to the greatest cinema showman of all, William Castle.
GIRL TRASH! in collab with Zodiac Film Club celebrated the femme filmmakers of trash and exploitation cinema, each week showcasing one or more GIRL TRASH GODDESS!
SATANIC PANIC! served spine-tingling tales of witch hunts, scapegoats and pop-culture hysteria from the 1970s and ’80s, when the world lost its mind and blamed Satan for our sins…
SYNTHETIC FLESH! was a tribute to more than 100 years of monster makeup FX and the artists who built them from wax, latex, and lube.
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE (1985) has been dubbed “the gayest slasher of all time” and its hero, Mark Patton (Jesse) branded the “first male scream queen”. But it’s problematic, so here’s why we’re screening it with an added exorcism.
To celebrate our 3rd birthday, the tenth sensational season of BAR TRASH was WE ARE TRASH!, a fan-made mixtape of cult and chaotic cinema.
SEASON ROUNDUP: The ninth season of BAR TRASH was CELLULOID JAM, an entirely unofficial celebration of 50 years of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
Season eight of Bar Trash was BANNED!, an uncensored season of the so-called ‘Video Nasties’ from the 1980s moral panic that swept the UK.
Season seven of Bar Trash was called ENCORE!!! (aka ‘More of the bloody same’), a celebration of two sensational years at Genesis Cinema.
After 80+ BAR TRASH shows at Genesis Cinema (& occasionally Rule Zero), here are my top 10 favourite nights (+ a few dishonourable mentions).
Our sixth Bar Trash season at Genesis Cinema was VHS USA, a blockbuster celebration of 1980s video culture. Featuring shot-on-video ‘trashterpieces’, Empire rental legends, and vintage VHS playback.
Looking back at the year almost gone, there have been three sensational seasons of BAR TRASH and our biggest QUEER HORROR NIGHTS to date.