Wildclaw Theater Presents William Peter Blatty’s LEGION
WildClaw Theatre presents the world premiere adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s “Legion.” With previews March 13th and 14th, and opening Monday, March 15th, 2009, 7:30pm at Chicago’s Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western Ave. Running Thursday thru Sunday until April 18th, 2009. Performance times are Thursday thru Saturday at 7:30pm, and Sunday at 3pm.
Directed by WildClaw company member Anne Adams, and featuring company members Brian Amidei and Scott T. Barsotti, with Len Bajenski, Ariel Brenner, Casey Cunningham, Vic Doylida, Matt Engle, Sasha Gioppo, Lindsay Nance, Benno Nelson, Elaine Robinson, Cheryl Roy, Erika Schmidt, HB Ward and Josh Zagoren.
WildClaw is thrilled to present the World Premiere of William Peter Blatty’s “Legion,” the bestselling sequel to Blatty’s “The Exorcist.” More than a decade after the death of Father Karras, Lieutenant Kinderman is faced with a series of grisly murders resembling the work of a dead serial killer. Kinderman’s investigation brings him face to face with the essence of true evil, and its origin. This terrifying supernatural thriller continues WildClaw theatre’s quest of bringing intelligent and imaginative horror to the Chicago stage.
Anne Adams, who recently directed the critical and commercial hit Scott Barsotti’s “The Revenants,” has once again assembled a remarkable production team for “Legion.” Adapted by WildClaw Artistic Director Charley Sherman, with set design by Nic Dimond, costume design by Allison Greaves, lighting design by Paul Foster, sound design by Mikhail Fiksel and Scott Tallarida, movement design by Karen Tarjan, and special blood effects by Fraser Coffeen.
Tickets $10 – $20, with student discounts available. For more information, please visit www.wildclawtheatre.com
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After Dark Horrorfest 4 at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont
After Dark Films’ HORRORFEST : 8 FILMS TO DIE FOR comes to the Muvico Theater in Rosemont on January 29th to terrify you for a week:
DREAD
Red-hot young star Jackson Rathbone, fresh from the smash film TWILIGHT SAGA and the upcoming THE LAST AIRBENDER, stars in the stylish horror/thriller DREAD. Stephen (RATHBONE) and Cheryl (Laura Donnelly, INSATIABLE) are college students making a documentary about what people dread in life. But they have no idea that their partner Quaid (Shaun Evans, BOY A, TELSTAR), witnessed his parents being murdered by an axe-wielding lunatic and wants to make others experience his own personal horror. The three set out to document people revealing their life’s most terrifying moments. But Quaid quickly grows bored with mere interviews and decides to take the study to a much more visceral level, causing all three to become vulnerable as they reveal their fears in front of the camera…
HIDDEN
HIDDEN is the story about a young man, Kai Koss (aka KK,) who unwillingly returns to the small town he ran from 19 years ago. His cruel mother has recently died, and left him the house he grew up in. He means to leave as soon as he has made all the necessary arrangements, but with his heritage comes dark and deadly secrets, and KK soon finds himself tangled up in a series of event that seem beyond anyone’s control…
KILL THEORY
Are you capable of the unthinkable? That’s the question seven college students face when they visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate graduation and are put to a horrific test by a mysterious killer. By 6 am the following morning, only one of them can remain alive. Whoever that person is will be allowed to walk away with his or her life.
However, if morning comes and more than one is still breathing, everyone dies. Trapped in a deadly game, they’re forced to kill one another in order to survive. Friends and couples must test their trust, and as the clock ticks away: alliances form, tension escalates, and hope begins to fade. Some will fight for love, some to survive, but all will change. Because deep down… we’re all killers.
LAKE MUNGO
In Lake Mungo, sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, Ray Kemeny. Ray discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. A series of clues lead the family to Lake Mungo where Alice’s secret past emerges.
THE FINAL
In the scenic and remote country of Rocky Branch, Texas, the Workley ranch house would become the infamous scene known internationally on the internet as “The Final.”
Dane, an awkward student with a deadly vendetta and suicidal tendencies, leads a group of outcasts who plot to avenge the years of humiliation they faced by the popular students at Hohn High School. Employing ideas inspired both from their classes as well as from horror films they watched, the outcast turn the tables on the popular students who made sport of them.
After receiving a lake-house granted to him in his uncle’s will, Dane and his friends, Jack, Ravi, Andy and Emily prepare for a single night that will leave their tormentors scarred for life…physically and emotionally.
THE GRAVES
On their last weekend together, Megan and Abby Graves are lost in a remote part of the Arizona desert where they are lured to Skull City Mine, an abandoned mine town. But they soon learn Skull City is anything but abandoned — and there’s no way out. The sisters are now prey, forced to unleash their most primitive instincts in a desperate, all-out battle for survival against unspeakable horrors — both human and supernatural. Can they unlock the terrifying secrets of Skull City in time to save themselves or will they become the latest in a long line of victims?
THE REEDS
In THE REEDS, a weekend boating trip through the Norfolk Broads becomes a terrifying, deadly ordeal for six 20-something year old friends. Aboard the Corsair Star, a small cruiser rented from Mr. Croker, the local marina operator, the boating party loses its bearings and cuts through the vast reedy tidewater in search of the main channel. After the first casualty by a freak accident, the boat runs aground. Every effort to preserve themselves and find a way out fails, as one by one the friends are terrorized by young punks and killed by a hooded man with a gun. There is no escaping this vast waterway, a place of endless return, presided over by Croker who killed a group of young people decades before and initiated the hellish curse which traps all who take passage on the Corsair Star.
ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION
In ZMD, a conservative island community is under attack! Port Gamble, Washington is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. A rag tag band of rebels led by Frida (Janette Armand), an Iranian college student suspected of being an Iraqi terrorist, and Tom (Doug Fahl), a gay business man who has returned to town with his partner to come out to his mother, tries to turn the tide and push the invading hoards of undead back.
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God is “tired of all the bullshit” and fortunately for you He has something much more entertaining in mind than a flood for revenge. Like sending angels and droves of the possessed including a psychotic ice cream man, a knife wielding child and a foul mouthed granny (my personal favorite) to kill a baby that is the last remaining hope for the human race.
Luckily for Charlie (Adrianne Palicki), the woman who is carrying the baby, the Angel Michael (Paul Bettany) who was sent to kill them has decided to disobey God and protect her and the baby. Michael finds Charlie waitressing at a diner in the desert and it is here where they make their stand. Michael gets help from Jeep (Lucas Black) a chump who is in love with Charlie; Kyle (Tyrese Gibson) a patron of the restaurant; Percy (Charles Dutton) the diner’s chef; Bob (Dennis Quaid) the diner’s owner; and the many, many guns Michael has brought with him. While initially this makeshift crew does a good job of defending themselves, God finally pulls out His big gun and sends the Angel Gabriel (Kevin Durand) to finish the job. Michael and Gabriel have it out in a Matrix style fight, using his wings to block bullets and slice and dice in an interesting fashion.
You will enjoy the movie much more if you don’t read too much into it or spend any time sweating the religious parts of the storyline.
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MAKE THIS THE BLOODIEST VALENTINE’S DAY EVER WITH ZOMBIEPALOOZA AT THE ABBEY PUB IN CHICAGO ON SATURDAY, FEB. 6TH, 2010!
Satisfy your craving for heart-warming, heart-stopping Valentine’s Day entertainment with Zombiepalooza at Chicago’s Abbey Pub on Saturday, February 6th at 9:30 PM, presented by The Zombeatles and The Dolls of Doom. The Fab Gore will perform live and undead and The Amazing, Bendable, Posable Dolls of Doom with Nuts ‘N Cherries Burlesque will haunt and hallucinate you with their undeath-defying feats of zombie burlesque. Angus MacAbre (“Scotland’s Funniest Zombie Comedian)” will be on hand to bring more disorder to the mirth and mayhem and to share some of his undeadpan comedy stylings.
Imagine Andy Warhol’s “Exploding Plastic Inevitable” multimedia events with zombies (but no annoying, overexposed Jane Austen zombies, thank God) and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what’s gonna go down. Oh, yeah, we’re also going to show “The Zombeatles: All You Need Is Brains.” This film chronicles the rise and fall of Jaw Nlennon, Pall IcKartney, Gorge Harryson and Dingo Scarr. It’s been described as “one of the most memorable mockumentaries of all time” and “a cross between ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ and ‘Night of the Living Dead.’”
The Amazing, Bendable, Posable Dolls of Dooms with Nuts ‘N Cherries Burlesque will feature the following performers: Lola Martinet, Tila von Twirl, Ray Gunn, Bazooka Joe, and Teddy Bare.
The evening kicks off with “Rock Star Gomeroke,” live band karaoke featuring your humble servants of rock, The Gomers. These guys know more than 3,000 songs and can play any style you can name. You wanted the best live karaoke band, you got the best!
They say vaudeville is dead but nobody told The Zombeatles and The Dolls of Doom. Who better to breathe new life into vaudeville? If you attend only one postmodern, post-apocalyptic vaudeville phantasmagoria this Valentine’s Day season, this is the one to attend.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. You can buy tickets through the Abbey Pub & Restaurant’s website, conveniently located at http://www.abbeypub.com/. The Abbey Pub & Restaurant is conveniently located at 3420 W. Grace in Chicago, Illinois 60618. Doors open at 9 PM and show starts at 9:30 PM. And remember — it’s B.Y.O.B. – Bring Your Own Brain.
For more information, visit http://www.zombiepalooza.blogspot.com/.
KICKSVILLE Live : Zombies Get Free Shwag!
Friday Jan. 22
The Viaduct Theatre
3111 N. Western Ave, Chicago
info@viaducttheatre.com
tickets: $10 at the box office or online
doors @ 9pm / show @ 10pm
****come dressed as a zombie, get a FREE copy of the two-CD set, Enter the Flavor Hut: Remasters+
The City Council has arrived in Madison from various far-flung locations. The new songs have been rehearsed. The new video track is playing nicely with its timecode. The Mayor is furiously programming the last of the lighting cues as this is written. Enter the Flavor Hut: Remasters+ is mastered and pressed. And, it looks like the weather gods may smile on us….
So, now that’s all taken care of, here’s the final guest list for the Viaduct show: Our featured vocalist and Evil Temptress will be the amazing Georgina McKee. Her extensive theatrical background and work with groups like Bunny Gumbo has definitely prepared her for her starring role as Candy. We’ll have artwork by Andy Ewen and resident artist Tone Deaf hanging all over the venue (and for sale, by the way). Malian ngoni virtuoso Tani Diakite will be starting off the night accompanied by Djam Vivie, Ghanaian percussionist and drum maker. MIDI wizard and live electronics guru Ben Surman (John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette) will be taking care of the house mix and joining us onstage throughout the night. And, maybe if we nag him enough, our very own Minister of Propaganda, Perry Serpa, will come up and help us out on Once in a Lifetime.
And last but definitely not least, thanks to our friends at Zombie Army Productions, there will be zombies! Everybody likes zombies, right????
For more information and details, visit http://www.kicksville.com/
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