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All Night Horror Fest at the New Bev in Hollywood!
Los Angeles based horror fans with stamina should definitely head over to the New Beverly Cinema on Saturday, October 18th, for an all night (dusk til dawn) horror movie festival put together by Phil Blankenship and Amoeba Records! 7 flicks (including one super secret screening) from directors like Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento are on the bill, and also some shorts and trailers in between the features. PLUS, Bloody-Disgusting is putting together a bunch of great prizes for a gigantic raffle! You can even win the chance to pick your own midnight movie at the Bev! Look after the break for the full festival lineup; tickets are on sale NOW! See you there!100% Movie Mania! New Bev Fundraiser! 12 Hours Of Movies, Fun & ?? Argento & Fulci, Mysterious Forces & Sorority Sisters, Hungry Zombies, plus the scariest of them all – Teen Pregnancy! 7 films plus trailers, shorts & more! Full schedule & tickets up soon.
Featuring Dario Argento’s rarely screened Creepers (the US theatrical cut of Phenomena!), The House on Sorority Row (25th Anniversary!), the award winning short In The Wall, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie (the Italian gut muncher!), Teenage Mother (the live birth exploitation classic!), The Power (unjustly overlooked 80s aztec doll terror!), and the New Bev return of the ultimate crowd pleaser: RAW FORCE! Plus, be prepared for a SUPER TOP SECRET hit surprise! Schedule subject to change.
All films presented in glorious 35mm! All proceeds go towards New Bev upgrades & repairs!
Admission is only $20! Tickets available NOW at the New Beverly box office or online through PayPal. Box office purchases are cash only.
$20 + $1 online service fee. All tickets will be held at will call the night of the event.
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‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Is No Fan of Generative AI: “Defeats the Purpose Entirely for Me”
There has been a lot of talk recently about filmmakers embracing generative AI as part of the filmmaking process, from Darren Aronofsky to Martin Scorsese. But what about filmmakers that are against the use of Gen AI for creative pursuits? You can count 20-year-old Backrooms director Kane Parsons among that group, which should give you some hope for the future.
In a new chat with The Australian, the self-taught young filmmaker makes it crystal clear that he won’t be using generative AI in any of his upcoming filmmaking projects.
“I think I’m in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” Parsons tells the outlet. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”
“What interests me more is interrogating it artistically,” Parsons notes. “We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot.”
He explains, “I’m interested in using that iconography in art – not using AI to make the art itself, but examining what it represents. I definitely want to explore it further in future projects.”
Kane Parsons also notes during the interview with The Australian, “… there’s so much at stake and so many genuinely harmful consequences already happening.”
Backrooms marks young prodigy Kane Parsons’ feature directorial debut, and it’s based on his own series of YouTube videos that were brought to life using Blender, the open-source 3D computer graphics software suite. So it’s no surprise that Parsons, who has hand-made his filmmaking career up to this point, isn’t buying into the hoopla around Generative AI.
His debut feature is the #1 movie in the world, so perhaps he’s onto something.
What’s next from Kane Parsons, you ask? Stay tuned…
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