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MidWest WeirdFest's Full 2018 Program Announced

February 14, 2018

MidWest WeirdFest announces its full 2018 program today. The second annual film festival - a cinematic celebration of of all things fantastic, frightening, offbeat, and just plain weird - will take place March 9-11, 2018 at the Micon Cinemas Downtown in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

“This year's festival program runs a weird and wonderful gamut, ranging from the boldest and bloodiest in sci-fi and horror, through documentaries of the strange and macabre, to twisting thrillers and erotic underground dramas” says festival director Dean Bertram, an Australian expatriate and veteran of the international film festival scene. “Whether you want to be thrilled, terrified, mesmerized or titillated you're going to find an abundance of entertaining films in this unique cinematic smorgasbord.”

Opening the festival is the Wisconsin premiere of PICKINGS from director Usher Morgan. In this neo-noir, western, thriller a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar. But they're soon confronted with the wrath of its owner: a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past. PICKINGS is a twisting, blood-drenched, super-stylized, thrill ride.

PICKINGS

PICKINGS

And for closing night, MidWest WeirdFest presents director Amara Cash's DADDY ISSUES.  A compelling and at times confronting film that tracks a bizarre love triangle: Maya, a desperate young artist, is unaware that her new girlfriend is involved in an emotionally charged, co-dependent, fetish relationship with a neurotic and drug-addicted sugar daddy: a man who is also Maya's biological father. All three lovers are oblivious to the dark secret of their entanglement, and revelation will change them, forever...

DADDY ISSUES

DADDY ISSUES

Some other fantastic titles the festival announces today include:

CANNIBALS AND CARPET FITTERS (Director: James Bushe) A ragtag group of carpet layers are sent on a job to an old English country house in the middle of nowhere. They soon discover it's a trap set up by a savage cannibalistic family. The carpet fitters must fight for their lives or risk ending up as the evening's dinner. Horrific delights abound in this gore filled dish of a horror comedy, that tastes like a wickedly decadent blend of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.

CANNIBALS AND CARPET FITTERS

CANNIBALS AND CARPET FITTERS

IMPOSSIBLE HORROR (Director: Justin Decloux) Lily, an insomniac filmmaker, hears a sinister scream outside her window every night. Determined to help the screaming person, she heads into the darkness of her neighbourhood. There she meets Hannah, a veteran “scream hunter”, obsessed with putting a stop to the nightly occurrence. The young women join forces to solve the bloodcurdling mystery, and quickly discover that its source may be an otherworldly threat that drives its victims into madness - and Lily and Hannah are next.

IMPOSSIBLE HORROR

IMPOSSIBLE HORROR

THE MILWAUKEE MAFIA: FRANK BALISTRIERI (Director: Jason Love)
Frank Peter Balistrieri (AKA "Mr. Big", "Big Frank", "Mr. Slick", and "Mad Bomber") was the most notorious and dangerous Mob Boss in Milwaukee's history. In this documentary, learn about the secret world of organized crime through the lens of the most dangerous man in Milwaukee. Known for using car bombs to murder his enemies, Frank Balistrieri was willing to do anything to keep his power over the city.

THE MILWAUKEE MAFIA: FRANK BALISTRIERI

THE MILWAUKEE MAFIA: FRANK BALISTRIERI

OFFICER PIGSLEY (Director: Kevin Losani, Michael J. Widger) In a a city full of superheroes and monstrous villains, a clumsy police officer stumbles upon an evil conspiracy. He has to decide whether it's worth taking the law into his own hands – and risking his life - to save a city that despises him. An indie epic, that bats miles above its meager budget, and delivers laughs, gasps, and feels.

OFFICER PIGSLEY

OFFICER PIGSLEY

See full festival program here.

Festival passes now available for purchase here.

 

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