Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The (kind of) Official Den of Sin Manifesto

The Den of Sin movies nights started as a way for my husband and I to catch up on our film viewing, introduce our friends to new & unusual cinema specimens, and as a way for me to practice my programming skills.

In general, films shown at the Den of Sin are of an exploitive or trashy nature with special attention given to genre (horror, sci-fi, fantasy) movies, although we have shown classics, musicals, comedies and a drama or two. We also have a predilection towards Asian and Eurotrash, although usually we just show whatever we want as long as too many people haven't seen it before.

With Evil Film School, we will be diving further into the Trash pit with a focus on found footage and bootlegs, but we would also like to start showing more local film and we will be accepting submissions of short films of an exploitive or genre nature for inclusion in future programs.

The original Den of Sin is also the basis for my regular column of Film Threat and has inspired many crazy movie nights all over North America.

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