Dismember
the Alamo 2009
October 29th-31st
Currently in it’s 3rd year, the
Dismember the Alamo Zombie Film
Festival is a
celebration of all things undead. For three nights (Oct.
29th-31st) the festival will feature screenings of the
best zombie films we can get our hands on, including a
Texas premiere of Dead Snow. In addition to the special
screenings, we will also be hosting our annual
zombie shorts competition
and
another zombie lurch to the capitol. Afterwards, we will
be hosting a zombie happy hour at Club Deville on Red
River.
Zombie
Lurch to the Capitol
Sunday October 25th
5pm
It’s time once again to lurch to the capitol in support of
equal rights for the undead! For far too long, zombies have
been discriminated against and it’s time to voice our
displeasure. Join us at the teacher’s retirement system
parking lot on 10th and Red River (1000 Red River St,
Austin, TX) at 5pm on October 25th. Get your zombie get-up
together and prepare to join the undead masses as we lurch
towards the capitol. Creative signage and zombie attire is
encouraged!
Left
4 Dead in the lobby at Lake Creek during Dismember
2009!!
Thanks to
Zapwizard, and
the dudes of the Austin Modders, we are able to offer a
one of a kind
Left 4 Dead experience
at Lake Creek as part of Dismember the Alamo 2009. For
all three days of the festival, we will have computer
stations set up and will give our guests a chance to
play Left 4 Dead Survival Mode on a custom designed map
of the Alamo Lake Creek. That’s right, you can play L4D
at the Alamo while zombies pour through the theater.
Zapwizard has created a custom Alamo Lake Creek map that
truly has to be seen to be believed. Check out some
preliminary screen shots
HERE and
get ready to try your hand at blasting away the zombie
hordes at the Alamo Lake Creek.
Special
Screenings for Dismember 2009
Don’t miss 35mm screenings of zombie films from around the
World for Dismember 2009!
Night of the
Comet
Thursday October 29th
7:00pm
$7
In addition to the new zombie films being screened during
Dismember 2009, we always like to throw in a classic title
or two as well. Night of the Comet is a great slice of
1980's culture wrapped within a zombie survival film that
only gets better with age. When a rogue comet wipes out the
majority of Earth’s population, sisters Samantha and Regina
find they have the city all to themselves. As your typical
early 80 Valley Girls stereotypes, Samantha and Regina do
the only reasonable thing and head straight for the mall
for the shopping spree to end all shopping sprees. En route
to the mall, they come across Hector, a hunky truck driver
who may just be the last man on Earth, or more importantly,
the last boyfriend on Earth. Now, in addition to fighting
over who gets dibs on Hector, the girls must battle the
survivors of the cosmic radiation who have devolved into
flesh-eating zombies and escape from evil scientists who
are out for the girls’ blood.
Night of the Living Dead Music and
Movie
Thursday October 29th
10:00pm
$12
Join us for a special 35mm screening of Night of the Living
Dead with live music from the musicians of
PKWproductions.
PKWproductions will satisfy the appetites for those who
crave zombie flicks as the popular “Music and a Movie”
series continues with a blood-curdling screening of George
A Romero’s 1968 classic horror film Night of the Living
Dead with live concerts in part of the “Dismember the Alamo
Zombie Film Festival” at Alamo Drafthouse.
Those who enter Lake Creek Alamo Drafthouse on October
29—whether by breaking through the wall, coming up through
the floor, or just walking in the front door—will get a
frightful treat. Included is a screening of Night of the
Living Dead along with a taste of three world premieres:
two new pieces by P. Kellach Waddle and one by composer and
guitarist Aaryn M. Russell. Just when the audience is
screaming for more, PKWproductions treats its victims to a
classic opera aria and special music from two chilling
television shows, Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone, to
augment the flesh-feasting funfest that will entrance the
brains of even the most devout thriller film seekers.
PKWproductions’ truly unordinary “Music and a Movie”
classical music concert series continues to draw a crowd.
Previous screenings have included classics such as Alfred
Hitchcock’s Psycho and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
and have been met with a near sold out audience at each
event.
In what just might be the granddaddy of all zombie flicks,
George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead paved the way for
the genre and set the tone for all zombie films that
followed. When the radiation from a fallen satellite causes
the recently deceased to once again walk among the living,
a small band of survivors must barricade themselves in an
old farmhouse and try to survive the night. You know the
story, now, here’s your chance to see it again on the big
screen! And remember kids, "kill the brain, you kill the
ghoul."
Pontypool
Friday October 30th
7:00pm
$7
We’ve seen zombie outbreaks occur because of cosmic
radiation, voodoo, viral infection, mysterious military
projects, and chemical leaks, but never via the English
language transmitted over radio waves. In the Canadian film
Pontypool, shock jock Grant Mazzy finds himself in just
this situation. When Mazzy is once again kicked off the big
city airwaves and relegated to a morning gig in the small
town of Pontypool, another boring day of school bus
cancelations turns deadly as bizarre reports of people
developing strange speech patterns and committing wonton
acts of horrendous violence start piling in. Before long,
Mazzy and the small staff of the radio station find
themselves trapped in the radio station as they discover
the cause of the deadly virus. Do they stay on the air in
hopes of being rescued, or are they in fact providing the
virus with its ultimate leap over the airwaves and into the
World?
Zombie Horror Remix
Friday October 30th
10:00pm
FREE (reserve your seat with a $5 food voucher)
Another year of Dismember the Alamo means that it’s time
for another zombie-themed
Horror Remix!
If you're a fan of cheesy horror films, then you've wasted
a lot of your life. You've sat through lame red herrings,
endless chase scenes, shower scenes with NO nudity (it
happens more than you think) and all the talking and
talking and talking… Horror Remix takes a bad horror film,
cuts out all the filler and condenses the central plot,
gore, cheese and nudity into approx. 30-40 minutes. It’s
all killer, no filler!
This year, Horror Remix tackles
The Video Dead
(1987),
FleshEater (1988), as
well as a gaggle of awesome zombie extras. Admission for
the event is FREE, but you can guarantee your seat with
a $5 food voucher.
Zombie Shorts
Program
Saturday October 31st
7:00pm
Free (reserve your seat with a $5 food voucher)
Don’t miss a FREE screening of the best submissions from
Dismember the Alamo’s 2009 Zombie Shorts Competition. Over
the past couple of years we have received submissions from
all over the World and this year is no different! You can
expect to see a program of fan submitted shorts covering
many slants on the zombie film genre. There is sure to be
more blood and gore than you can shake a stick at. Keep an
eye on www.drafthouse.com for program details as they are
solidified.
Dead Snow
(Texas Premiere!)
Saturday October 31st
10:00pm
$7
If there is anything that could possibly be more terrifying
than zombies…. it’s NAZI ZOMBIES. With all the recent WWII
Nazi hoopla in the movies recently, we thought the
Norwegian film Dead Snow would be a perfect fit for this
years DtA.
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover a
battalion of undead Nazi soldiers intent on devouring
anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote
mountains where they were once sent to die. What started as
a relaxing snowbound getaway to Øksfjord, Norway becomes a
horrific nightmare as the students battle to escape the
undead hordes.