One Hell of a Time: Get your tickets for The Devil's Carnival LIVE Tour this Saturday @ the Coolidge
Prepare yourself for more bloody musical numbers: the masterminds behind the 2008
film Repo! The Genetic Opera --a slasher musical seemingly destined for
cult midnight movie-screening fame as a successor to Rocky Horror
Picture Show --have returned with a new project. Director Darren Bousman
(of Saw series fame) has teamed up with REPO! director Terrance Zdunich
on a unique new project -- The Devil's Carnival -- an episodic musical
horror film that embarked on its second nationwide tour last week. The
film follows three of the recently departed down to Hell for a carnival
run by Lucifer himself, where the n'er-do-wells face a never-ending
repetition of their earthly sins. The cast features REPO! alums like
Ogre (of metal band Skinny Puppy) as well as as Jessica Lowndes (the new 90210),
Sean Patrick Flannery (Boondock Saints), and more faces that may look
familiar. Their goal is to turn The Devil's Carnival
into a multi-part project (the second installment is currently being
written). And lest you think this is your run-of-the-mill, self-produced
slasher musical, know that-- aside from overtones of classic
Hell-based works like The Divine Comedy and even Paradise Lost-- some of
Aesop's fables (such as The Scorpion and the Frog, having been
referenced most recently in last year's Drive) form the foundation of
the film's narrative. Tonight's carnival event includes a Q&A with Bousman and
Zdunich, a costume contest, a live slideshow performance, never before
seen REPO! footage, and more. Tickets $21.45-$42.85 at tdc_boston.eventbrite.com. See ya'll in hell!
__Neil Patch and Kendall Salter