The screening venue is the independent Labia Theatre on Kloof Street, Cape Town (as with the HORRORFEST, X FEST and CINEMANIACS). At R25 Labia Theatre tickets are almost half the price of other theatre chains in South Africa.
The hand-picked movies include a couple of cult classics and some new indie movies you're unlikely to see on the big screen.
CELLUDROID also salutes South African born filmmaker Neill Blomkamp whose incredible DISTRICT 9 releases the same weekend as the festival (through Ster Kinekor), and will show five times daily at the Labia Theatre's Screen 1 (next door to Celludroid on Screen 2). The 8:30pm DISTRICT 9 show on Friday 28 August will have cast & crew present! An introduction will precede, and a Q&A will follow the movie. Guests confirmed thus far include actor Jason Cope, actress Vanessa Haywood & Max Poolman (Visual FX Supervisor). More are pending.
Lucky audience members will also receive DISTRICT 9 give-aways.
At selected CELLUDROID screenings DVD copies of WATCHMEN will be up for grabs (courtesy Nu Metro Home Entertainment).
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
As one of the first and ultimate cult films, this camp, low budget gem from 1959 became the focal point of Tim Burton's biopic of its director Ed Wood, Jr.
With a passion to make movies, Wood used all resources at his disposal to realize his vision - even if flawed - but this is in fact what makes it so much fun.
This is your rare opportunity to catch this legendary movie on the big screen.
PLAGUERS
When a band of sexy space pirates hijack a fuel-transport vessel bound for Earth, an alien virus known only as "Thanatos" is accidentally released.
The contagion mutates its victims, transforming them one after another into ravenous, demonic creatures. Pirates and crew must join together to destroy the undead PLAGUERS as the ship nears Earth, threatening to infect the entire planet.
DESTROY ALL PLANETS (Gamera tai uchu kaijû Bairasu) An alien spaceship heads for earth, intent on world domination!
Gamera, the fire-breathing, giant flying turtle has to save humanity.
But the squid-like enemies take control of Gamera, forcing man's salvation to attack Tokyo.
Made in 1968, this deliciously tacky sci-fi B-flick is a blast and follows the classic Japanese tradition of the original Godzilla movies.
AKIRA
Tetsuo and Kaneda's motorcycle gang encounters a military operation out to capture an escaped experimental subject. Tetsuo is taken into custody and experimented on, unleashing his intense psychic powers, bursting into his destructive anger directed at the world.
Director Katsuhiro Otomo's legendary 1988 Anime became the blueprint for almost every film of its kind to follow.
BANE
Four women awake in an underground cell with complete amnesia. They soon discover that they are part of a gruesome experiment.
One by one they are visited by a demented scientist who cuts a four digit number into each woman's skin - the exact time of their death...
AUTOMATONS
In the distant future a lone surviving woman is the last of her kind, the rest perishing in the generations-long war that she continues to fight, assisted by a group of antiquated robot helpers.
Shot on Super-8 in black & white, this innovative low budget 2006 movie directed by James Felix McKenney also features Angus Scrimm, better known as The Tall Man from the Phantasm movies.
DISTRICT 9
Linking up with the spirit of the CELLUDROID Film Festival, District 9 releases in South Africa the same weekend, and can be seen at the Labia Theatre on Kloof Street five times daily (11:30am / 1:45pm / 4pm / 6:15pm / 8:30pm).
Set in South Africa, an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. This innovative breakthrough for South African movie-making is directed by homegrown Neill Blomkamp and produced by The Lord Of The Rings' Peter Jackson.
@ The Labia Theatre, Kloof Street, Cape Town, ZA All shows regular Labia ticket prices (and concessions) apply / Booking info: 021 424 5927
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE : 6pm
PLAGUERS : 4pm
DESTROY ALL PLANETS : 6pm
AKIRA : 8:15pm
BANE : 4pm
AUTOMATONS : 6pm
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE : 8:15pm
