SATURDAY SEPT. 12 – Noon-10pm
at the Ellice Theatre – 585 Ellice Ave.

ESCAPE starts at $20 and goes down $1 for every hour you stay! Or stay all day for only $5! Arrive anytime during the buy levitra overnight show!

Ten brain-numbing, butt-numbing hours of trash film at its finest! A top-secret lineup of films both old and new that have NEVER levitra 20mg tablets been released in Canada!

Action films! Horror Films! Music Films! TV Specials! Animal Films! Documentaries!

Teen trash! Eurotrash! Psychotronic Trash!

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THE RULES:

– Your time of entry will be written on your hand when you come in, and the hours you stay will be counted down from that.
– This event is 18+
– Bathroom breaks are allowed – but to go outside for any reason you must either pay up, or be handcuffed by one of our Big Smash deputys who will accompany get viagra without prescription you!
– This event is one of three fundraisers Big Smash! is holding this fall to raise money for an HDCAM video deck for higher quality video presentation at various venues around town, so please don’t try to skip out on paying!

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FROM UPTOWN Weekly (Sept. 3, 2009):

Winnipeg will surely be the envy of film fans everywhere when it hosts Ten Hours of Head Trauma: a 10-hour movie marathon in which the longer you stay, the cheaper your ticket gets.

Film programmer extraordinaire Kier-La Janisse has assembled a top-secret lineup of trashy goodness, comprised of everything from short films and features to documentaries and obscure oddities that have never been officially released in Canada.

Janisse is keeping mum about the exact titles, explaining, “These are films that come from years of collecting which, for whatever reason, fall through the cracks and never get released.

“The main thing is that it’s a trash film festival, which doesn’t mean necessarily the films are all bad. There is something inherently fascinating about all these movies,” she continues.

“In previous years, when I did it in Vancouver (as a fundraiser for her Cinemuerte Film Festival), I played Deafula, a vampire film made entirely in sign language by a deaf school, and Dracula’s name isn’t really Dracula, it’s Steve.”

And with 10 hours of programming, you can be sure there’s going to be something for everyone.

“There are documentaries, action, music films, TV specials, all kinds of stuff. I would say that the earliest movie is from the ’70s, but I’m trying to get some actual premieres, too. Sort of like (Aint It Cool News’) Butt-Numb-A-Thon in Texas, where they have surprise sneak screening previews of brand new movies,” Janisse says.

“Certainly there’s going to be things that annoy some people, but I don’t pick movies to drive people out so I make more money. If I just play terrible movies with no conscience, then I won’t be able to have this fundraiser again next year.”

Her independently run company, Big Smash! Productions, is raising money for a pricey HD cam deck. “Right now I do screenings at different venues around town which only play DVDs, which isn’t appropriate for public exhibition. An HD deck brings it up to festival-level presentation, so if I do screenings at the Lo Pub or wherever, it’s more professional.” (The Queen singalong is also part of the same fundraiser – see page 5.)

While 10 hours may seem like a long haul, there will be breaks in between each film, and people who stay for the entire run will be rewarded with prizes. Bathroom breaks are no problem, but if you need to go for a smoke, that’s another story.

“There are guards in the lobby to make sure you don’t escape without paying. If you want to go outside for any reason, you need to be handcuffed to a guard. Bribing might be required if you want to actually cross the street for any reason. At a timed break, a guard might walk everyone to the 7-Eleven as a group,” Janisse says.

If that still seems daunting, don’t worry; you can drop in at any time during the day.

“The time you come in is written down on your hand, and gets counted down from then. It starts at $20 and goes down a dollar every hour, so if you leave at 1 p.m., it’s $19. So if you come in at 7 p.m., the hours that you stayed get marked down from that.”

Diehard fans get the best deal. “If you stay for the whole 10 hours, it’s five bucks.

“There’ll be refreshments and popcorn. There’s also the Ellice Café, if you wanted something more substantial that we might not have at the concession stand,” Janisse adds. “People who want to stay all day will be entertained to the max. There will be movies that they’ll be glad they saw and make them feel more complete for having seen them.”

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).