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04 November

City of Masks

Running time: 93 mins

Ambition, obsession, and lost love collide in a haunted West End theatre where a disfigured composer, a rising star, and a jealous rival fight for control of a mysterious musical-and the masked legacy that threatens to destroy them all. Inspired by Gaston Le Roux's The Phantom of the Opera.

Bar Trash: ROBOT HOLOCAUST (1987)

Running time: 150 mins

"IT'S MACHINE VS MAN IN THE ULTIMATE BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE!"

In a post-apocalyptic New York, a nomad and his robot battle evil forces to liberate humanity from enslavement.

BAR TRASH continues our 14th sensational season — TRASH PLANET 3: APOCALYPSE! — with the return of former gay porn director Tim Kincaid and his ROBOT HOLOCAUST (1987).

Tim Kincaid developed his filmmaking career as a pioneering director of gay hardcore films, working under the pseudonym ‘Joe Gage’ to co-create the ‘Working Man Trilogy’ (1976-1979), setting the benchmark for adult entertainment featuring universally rugged, working class men. Subsequently veering into the mainstream, Kincaid last appeared at BAR TRASH with another of the four films he made in a flurry (1986-1987) for legendary producer Charles Band, MUTANT HUNT (1987) aka “The textbook on psychosexual mutant cyborgs” (Avery McNeilly).

On its quest to save the Earth, ROBOT HOLOCAUST features flesh-eating mutants, lots of semi-naked wrestling (can there be too much?), giant worms, a C-3PO clone, Amazonian women, and malevolent AI (sounding a little like Darth Vader…). Shot over 15 days in the abandoned Brooklyn Navy Yard, this lo-fi apocalypse is full of no-budget special effects, actors in clunky robot suits, partial nudity, wayward acting, and some very peculiar hand puppets. Savaged by the bad film bros, there’s a lot of love in Token Homo’s heart for this serving from humanity’s trash pile.

Polite notice: We are presenting ROBOT HOLOCAUST with subtitles from the best available digital source.

/// BAR TRASH is a celebration of cult and curious cinema, hosted by queer film fanatic Token Homo and friends. Films are served with themed drinks, introductions, intermissions, prize giveaways, and subtitles / captions where possible. Tickets from £3.50 + fees. Adults 18+ only. Follow @tokenhomo or visit tokenhomo.com for all the gory details. ///

Bartrash

In The Shadows

Running time: 117 mins

Tells the true story of Ramla Ali, who fled Somalia with her family as a young girl, seeking asylum in London from the civil war. As a teenager, she pursued her love of boxing, but did so secretly as she knew her family would disapprove. Ali became the first boxer, male or female, to represent Somalia at the 2020 Olympic Games and made history after winning the first ever professional female boxing match in Saudi Arabia.

I Love Boosters

Running time: 113 mins

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing from her stores and reselling them at a lower price — what they call 'fashion-forward philanthropy'.

Primetime

Running time: 110 mins

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

The Devils

Running time: 115 mins

Censored for more than half a century, Ken Russell’s visionary masterpiece returns to the big screen fully restored in 4K and cut to Russell’s direction - the first publicly released version of the film as intended by the filmmaker. Unveiled at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, the definitive version arrives 55 years after the film’s original release. An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, Ken Russell’s The Devils is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption, and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Inspired by the true story of 17th-century priest Urbain Grandier, accused of bewitching a convent of nuns, the film lays bare the collusion of church and state through a searing vision of religious persecution, collective hysteria and institutional corruption.

Wicker

Running time: 105 mins

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.

Wild Horse Nine

Running time: 118 mins

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone's trip to this remote paradise sideways.

Wildwood

Running time: 130 mins

After her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, headstrong teenager Prue McKeel launches a desperate rescue mission into the Impassable Wilderness - an enchanted forest hidden just beyond Portland, Oregon. Joined by her hapless but loyal classmate Curtis Mehlberg, Prue navigates a world of talking animals, bandits, and powerful figures driven by grief and ambition. As the pair is drawn into a conflict threatening the balance of the forest itself, Prue must discover strength and belief she never knew she possessed. If she hopes to save her brother and protect Wildwood’s fragile future, she will have to risk everything. From Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning LAIKA, Wildwood is a sweeping adventure about love, sacrifice, and the magic that reveals itself when we dare to look beyond the familiar.

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