Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift at the Grindhouse hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian, and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $4 Pabst Blue Ribbon & Hamm’s tallboys, $4 small popcorn, small soda and candy! $1 off beer/wine/soda/popcorn/candy for FilmScene members. PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!
Leather jackets, loud over-modulated music, laser guitar picks, motorcycles, muscle cars and lots of fire... it's all right here! Did we also happen to mention flesh eating zombies?
"If you ever tried to watch a Troma or Full Moon film and thought it would have been a lot better with alien-controlled undead and cross-dressing Japanese men, look no further that Wild Zero, an unrestrained orgy of zombies, flying saucers, hot cars, slicked-back hair, and of course, 'rock and roll!'" - Nathaniel Thompson, DVD Delirium
"Wild Zero is not a movie. It is an experience, an in your face, melt your brain piece of pure crazy." - Sam Panico, B&S About Movies
"Has everything the midnight crowd could possibly want." - Ken Eisner, Variety
"An absurd, somewhat gory punk-rock zombie flick at times reminiscent of Six-String Samurai." - The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre
Ace, a rockabilly fan who really wants to be cool, is on his way to see his favorite group Guitar Wolf, when a strange thing occurs... aliens invade the Earth and people start returning to life as flesh eating zombies! Enlisting the help of the (real-life) Japanese rock/punk band Guitar Wolf (and self-proclaimed coolest rock band in the world), Ace and the members of the band get entangled in many misadventures with crazy rock managers in very tight shorts, naked women shooting guns in the shower and blood-thirsty zombies ready to tear them apart!
Think Dawn of the Dead meets KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park with the humor of Evil Dead 2 and that's what Wild Zero is all about!
Winner: Best Horror - Philadelphia Film Festival 2001
Plus a Something Weird short film.
