A double feature celebrating 1990s Shot-On-Video surreal horror, pairing Charles Pinion’s cult Cinema of Transgression landmark Red Spirit Lake with Vick & Tarstar’s Scarecrow Factory, a meta mumblegore nightmare from Brewce Longo of Blood Sick Productions. Both directors will be in attendance, followed by a Q&A hosted by Annie Rose Malamet of Girls, Guts, & Giallo.

Red Spirit Lake (1993)

Run Time: 69 minutes

After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist seeking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow-covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt’s estate.

A warped meditation on The Old Dark House, Red Spirit Lake erupts into a delirious storm of UFO abductions, witchcraft, frank nudity, castration, fatal fistings, slaughterous saunas, and psychotic surrealism. A cacophony of subversive hyper-violence and salacious sexual chaos unfolds against picturesque winter vistas, featuring performances by Cinema of Transgression icons Richard Kern, Holly Adams, Kembra Pfahler, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and Tommy Turner, alongside an insurgent soundtrack with music by Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, and The Lunachicks.

Vick & Tarstar’s Scarecrow Factory (2025)

Run Time: 91 minutes

Vick and Tarstar are shooting their latest trash-horror epic, Scarecrowed, with a cast and crew of punks, drug addicts, fetish models, and dumpster divers. As extra-hairy relationship drama, homelessness, vanishing funds, and quitting collaborators threaten to derail the production, the duo remains committed to telling their story.

Set within a deranged consumer fantasy, Scarecrow Factory asks a simple question: with the right bucket, can you too buy your own hair-cutting scarecrow made by the animatronic Goo Guys? A Blood Sick mumblegore nightmare by Brewce Longo and Kasper Meltedhair, the film features Erin Caywood, Nicole Elyse, Janice.Click, and SOV legends Hugh Gallagher and Tina Krause.

Charles Pinion and Brewce Longo are currently in preproduction on an upcoming collaborative feature, Thousand Eyes. Directed by Pinion and produced by Longo, the film will shoot in Philadelphia in May 2026 and will feature a mix of regular Blood Sick players alongside classic SOV figures.