Punk Rock Holocaust - Philly premiere of Warped Tour slasher flick March 22nd!
PUNKS NOT DEAD...BUT IT'S ABOUT TO BE!
Check out the Philadelphia premiere of Punk Rock Holocaust on Tuesday, March 22nd at 8pm at the Trocadero (1003 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107)! Director Doug Sakmann and other surprise guests will be on hand to introduce the film and answer questions after the screening, followed by a killer afterparty at an undisclosed location!
Punk Rock Holocaust is a rock and roll slasher/zombie horror comedy based on the Vans Warped Tour and features 23 of the biggest bands on the tour performing and dying! You can find out much more about the film and it’s upcoming sequel at
www.punkrockholocaust.com! Punk Rock Holocaust features the highest on-screen body count in slasher film history with entire crowds being massacred in addition to the deaths of over 110 band members!
The film follows Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman as he tries to maintain the nation’s biggest touring rock festival amid a string of gristly murders, all the while keeping the evil record executive Belial (Played by Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman) at bay. Meanwhile, tour reporter Heather Vantress is trying to figure out who is behind the heinous crimes as the Warped Tour crew and bands (all played by themselves) are struggling to survive and stay on the road.
Victims include: (In alphabetical order) Atmosphere, Andrew WK, Beret, Big D and the Kids Table, Bowling For Soup, Destruction Made Simple, Dropkick Murphies, Face To Face, Glassjaw, Horrorpops, The Kids Of Widney High, Less Than Jake, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, MEST, Never Heard Of It, Pennywise, The Phenomenauts, Rancid, Simple Plan, Suicide Machines, Treephort, Tsunami Bomb, The Used, Vendetta Red and much more!
You can also enter a contest at
www.punkrockholocaust.com to win tons of cool stuff from the movie, including the grand prize, the actual Executioner’s Sword used in the film! Deadline to enter is April 1st 2004!
Here's what the critics are saying about Punk Rock Holocaust:
“Punk Rock Holocaust truly turns the amps up to eleven in a way that Spinal Tap would never have dared.”
-Filmthreat.com
“Doug Sakmann’s lunatic love letter to bloodletting and mosh pitting is (a) big, brash power chord layered across the entire DIY mentality of the music and moviemaking he’s championing. And the results are amazingly insane.”
-DVDTalk.com
“Punk Rock Holocaust puts the "awesome" back in "constant bloodshed".”
-Tasteslikechicken.com
“Doug Sakmann’s mixture of tour commentary and George A Romero-style gore is the most original twist on the rock video genre in a long, long time.”
- Raindance Film Festival
”Doug Sakmann blurs the line between Punk shockumetary and gut exploding documentary. If you love punk rock, you'll love seeing these bands play. If you don't, you'll love seeing these bands get gutted - literally! A true original from Mr. Sakmann. Loved every minute of it. This movie will shock your ass right off! It did for me, now I save a bundle when I go to my tailor!”
- Ted Raimi, actor, scholar and gentleman (Evil Dead, Xena, Spiderman, The Grudge)
For more information, you can find an online press kit and much more at:
www.punkrockholocaust.com
