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The Buddhist Fist

Kung Fu Grindhouse returns on August 16th with more regurgitated cinema:

Slugs @ 7:00pm - Yes indeed, flesh eating slugs do in fact menace s small town in this trashy nature gone wild "classic" from 1988. Spanish director Juan Piquer Simon who also brought us Pieces succeeds once again in portraying humans as volatile, cruel and above all stupid frightened animals.

The Dirtbike Kid @ 8:30pm Peter Billingsley who you may be more familiar with as Ralphie in A Christmas Story plays a kid who re-enacts Herbie the Lovebug with a dirtbike. Hand in handle they manage to save the local hotdog stand from demolition in favor of a bank, and save his widowed mother from perpetual lonliness, whew what a metaphor.

The Buddhist Fist @ 10:pm Two brothers are raised separately and trained in kung fu only to find themselves at opposite sides of a deadly rivalry. Contradicts the Western notion that Buddhism is a peaceful self effacing faith whose followers somehow transcend worldly concerns. In fact as this film points out even Buddhists can be full of rage, vice and mindless vindictive hatred just like the rest of the world. Directed by Iron Monkey's Yuen Wo Ping!

See you August 16th at The Sunset!

Our Friend The Grand Illusion Cinema

Fans of Kung Fu Grindhouse:
Our favorite theater in Seattle needs our help! The Grand Illusion is a volunteer run, non-profit cinema in the U-District. As such they operate dangerously close tot he bottom line, and if they run out of money, they may have to close their doors.

The Grand Illusion is the only cinema in town that offers such a unique mix of films from trashy to classic to foreign to yes, even kung-fu. Simply put, it's amazing stuff you won't find anywhere else in Seattle.
On top of this they have the best ticket prices in town. You can see almost any movie for just 8 bucks, 7 bucks for students, and if you become a member, tickets are just five dollars! Becoming a member starts at just 30 bucks for a whole year.
We don't know what else to say to encourage you to help keep this totally unique and awesome cinema going, it would be a huge hit to local movie fans if they closed down. As supporters of all of Kung Fu Grindhouse's shenanigans, we think you understand the value of something like this.

We're going to be there this Tuesday July 27th to watch John Water's trashy classic Female Trouble at 9pm. In addition to our own ticket prices, we'll donate an extra five bucks to The Grand Illusion for every certifiable Kung Fu Grindhouse fan who buys a ticket to watch Female Trouble with us.

Find out more about The Grand Illusion here:
www.grandillusioncinema.org
1403 NE 50th St., Seattle, 98105 (at University Way & NE 50th St.)
206-523-3935

Up and coming at The Grand Illusion:
Female Trouble - July 23 through 29
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo - July 30 through August 5
Behind the Burly-Q - August 6 through 12
We Found It In the Basement: Lost 16mm reels - July 30 & 31 at 11pm
Saturday August 7th - Kung Fu Double Feature:
Invincible Pole Fighter and The Mystery of Chessboxing
Amazon Women On the Moon - August 6, 7, 13 & 14, LATE NIGHTS! shows start at 11pm
Wah Do Dem - August 13 through 19

Magnificent Butcher Toast

Hey! Thanks for another great night guys!

July 19th, 2010

Magnificent Butcher

On July 19th we're back with another night of awesome cinema salvage:

Fiend Without A Face @ 7:00pm - A nuclear power plant in Canada causes “thoughts” to manifest physically as brain sucking brain monsters. A cold-war era monster classic with bumbling military, solitary army-scientist heroes and fainting women galore. We saw a trailer for this film back in the 80's and never forgot it. Finally, 20-odd years later it lives up to the flying brain monster hopes we had held on to for so long.

Space Hunters @ 8:30pm - Molly Ringwald stars in this visual smorgasbord science fiction from 1983. Something of a riff on popular space opera films of the time but much better than you would expect from a movie that has been almost totally forgotten. It was originally made for 3D in theaters, and the rich cinematography attests to that, but the costumes, props and sets are absolutely amazing.

Magnificent Butcher @ 10pm - Sammo Hung plays a butcher who runs afoul of a kung-fu school full of bad guys and has to defend himself. Sounds like a pretty typical plot for a kung fu movie, but it's livened up by Sammo's lightning fast kung-fu and witty humor. Widely considered one of his best.

Blind Fury Toast

June 28, 2010

The glorious Sunset Tavern had their ten year anniversary party the weekend before we did Blind Fury, and they got a nice writeup at Three Imaginary Girls. We managed to get an honorable mention as one of the Sunset's ongoing events.
As always, thanks to the Sunset for hosting us, and thanks to you our friends for coming and making it such a popular event.

Blind Fury - June 28th

For those of you who were at the last show and heard us announce the June date as the 21st, you are not crazy. Due to unforseen carpet replacement circumstances, KFG has been pushed back to the 28th. Same show different day. Check it out:

7pm - Men Behind the Sun: A Chinese war horror film about the Japanese occupation during World War II, this one has to be seen to be believed. Gruesome and gory to the maximum, you've been warned.

8:30pm - Mystery of Chessboxing: A young upstart must learn the mysterious "Chessboxing" style in order to defeat the Ghost Face Killer who has been terrorizing the countryside. Classic Chinese kung-fu from the 70's. I think some minor musical group might have written a song or two based on this film.

10pm - Blind Fury: Rutger Hauer is a blind Vietnam veteran who is trained in sword techniques during his recovery in Thailand. Upon his return to the States he fights crime, blind Vietnam veteran ninja style.

See you JUNE 28th at the Sunset!