VHS USA – Shot-On-Video Double-Bill at Genesis Cinema (Weds 20 Mar 2024)!
Shot-On-Video (SOV) Double-Bill: THE MCPHERSON TAPE (1989) + HALLUCINATIONS (1987)
Bar Trash continues its sensational VHS USA season with a double-bill of 1980s shot-on-video ’trashterpieces’.
THE MCPHERSON TAPE aka UFO ABDUCTION (1989)
- Director: Dean Alioto
- Cast: Tommy Giavocchini, Patrick Kelley, Shirly McCalla, Stacey Shulman
- “Before the Witch. Before the Activity. There was THE MCPHERSON TAPE.”
- A young man keeps his video camera running as strange occurrences disrupt his niece’s birthday party.
An historically significant and thrilling sci-fi release, THE MCPHERSON TAPE is both a found footage pioneer and lucky to have escaped the fire that ravaged its distribution company’s warehouse, denying the film a legitimate release back in the day. Huddle round as we finally discover what happened on October 8th, 1983…
“THE MCPHERSON TAPE is a huge milestone in SOV history and a lovely reminder of how much can be achieved with very little.”
Bleeding Skull
HALLUCINATIONS (1987)
- Directors: John Polonia, Mark Polonia & Todd Michael Smith
- Cast: John Polonia, Mark Polonia, Todd Michael Smith
- Three brothers have disturbing and violent hallucinations while their mother is at work.
Starting in the 1980s, legendary SOV enfants terribles Mark and John Polonia would spend a lifetime crafting ultra-low budget films. Emissions from their teenage years were shot in their family home with the help of their gay pal, Todd. HALLUCINATIONS is an insane reenactment of every horror film you’ve ever seen, spiked with sexual perversion and very wet gore. Some scenes may offend…
“HALLUCINATIONS is a special movie. Part adolescent slumber party time capsule, part maddening fever dream, and one hundred percent no-budget cinematic bliss.”
SOV Horror
Polite notice: These films were shot and edited on video. We will be screening them from the best available digital transfers, but still… THE MCPHERSON TAPE has subtitles. HALLUCINATIONS does not.
Bar Trash is a celebration of cult and curious cinema, hosted by queer film fanatic, Token Homo. Films served with themed drinks, introductions, intermissions, prize giveaways, and subtitles/captions (where possible). Tickets £3.