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We’re excited to announce the return of Roadburn Cinema in the V39 basement from Thursday, April 12 to Saturday, April 14th. This year’s selections will include Blood, Sweat + Vinyl: DIY in the 21st Century and Puzzleface among others.
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Where can you find Rue Morgue founder Rodrigo Gudino praying to Ken Russell before being murdered by a man with a puzzle piece for a face? In the same short film that features Voivods Denis Snake Belanger as a mad scientist, of course, and a killer soundtrack that includes Voivod performing Missing Sequences from their classic album Nothingface.
The 18-minute cult musical Puzzleface by experimental filmmaker musician Spookey Ruben and preeminent creative producer David Daniloff is a hilarious, surreal and eccentric mash-up of cult-horror-comedy genres. Imagine Friday the 13th meets Xanadu at Frank Zappas house. And, yes, that really is Ken Russell, the recently deceased director of The Devils, Tommy, Lair Of The White Worm and Altered States. And, no, the 80s musical throwback sequence is not a hallucination.
Puzzleface puts an outlandish twist on the boundaries of search and destroy slasher horror, serving up over-the-top satire, gushing gallons of blood, naughty nuns, possessed priests, a deadly crucifix and a homicidal maniac on the loose. The film follows Dr. Von Spreckenzeedoitsh played by Denis Snake Belanger, investigating a series of murders by a serial killer known as Puzzleface. Who will be his next victim?
Puzzleface will be screening downstairs in the V39 basement, where Roadburn Cinema returns from Thursday, April 12 to Saturday April 14th.