More details can be found at the festival’s official website. EW can exclusively reveal that Cinepocalypse’s closing night will feature a 25th-anniversary screening of the 1994 comedy Airheads, with director Michael Lehmann in attendance. Other films in the festival’s lineup include the Glenn Danzig-directed Verotika and Flatliners, the screening of which will be hosted by filmmaker Joel Schumacher. It’s destined for cult classic status, and we’re thrilled to help launch this beautiful crazy beast back into the world 25 years later.”Ĭinepocalypse takes place at the Music Box Theatre, June 13-20. “Much more than a curiosity, Tammy is an unrivaled gem, and easily one of the most unique, jaw-droppingly entertaining genre film discoveries of the decade. “Knowing that Tarantino had already committed to Cannes and Scorsese wouldn’t be done in time, we settled on our next best option,” Cinepocalypse Founder and Artistic Director Josh Goldbloom tells EW. 25 years on, the original R-rated “gore-cut” is set to be released and will receive its world premiere at Chicago’s Cinepocalypse film festival in June. We are honestly not making this up! Directed by Stewart Raffill ( The Philadelphia Experiment), Tammy and the T-Rex was originally intended to be more of a horror film, but much of the gorier material was cut before the movie’s - ultimately negligible - release. The movie stars Denise Richards as the titular Tammy, a high school cheerleader whose boyfriend Michael (Walker) has his brain implanted into the body of a robot dinosaur by a mad scientist. In fact, there’s really just the 1994 science fiction-comedy, Tammy and the T-Rex. Primarily seen in its heavily censored PG-13 version, Vinegar Syndrome brings TAMMY AND THE T-REX to DVD and Blu-ray fully uncut for the first time on home video, with all of its gross-out gags and gratuitous decapitations, gut-rippings, and head-smashings, courtesy of special effects wizard John Carl Buechler (Mausoleum), completely intact.There aren’t many films in which the late Paul Walker got turned into a dinosaur. Meanwhile Tammy and her best friend Byron start searching for a suitable human corpse in which to re-transplant Michael’s brain…Ī jaw-dropping assault on good taste from the whacked out mind of cult filmmaker Stewart Raffill (The Ice Pirates Mac & Me), TAMMY AND THE T-REX features Denise Richards (Wild Things) in her first starring role, alongside Paul Walker (The Fast & the Furious), Terry Kiser (Weekend at Bernie’s), George “Buck” Flower (They Live), and John F. Horrified by his predicament and new dinosaur body, he escapes from the doctor’s lab and begins brutally killing his former bullies. Wachenstein, who extracts his brain and implants it into a giant robotic T-Rex. Comatose and at death’s door, Michael’s body is stolen from the hospital by mad scientist Dr. In the 1970s and '80s, Tammy Faye and her husband Jim Bakker,rose from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity. But Tammy’s jealous ex, Billy, won’t stand for anyone coming between him and ‘his’ girl, so he and his friends kidnap Michael, leaving him to be mauled by a lion in a local wildlife reserve. An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Tammy is a popular high school cheerleader whose new boyfriend, Michael, might be the love of her life.
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