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The AUSSIE PUNK ROCK MASSACRE 2024

Two mad punk-inspired films and three Australian cult film legends are hitting the road to introduce their outrageous new features. Andrew Leavold (The Search For Weng Weng) presents his new punk documentary PUB: THE MOVIE, and fellow Aussie Dick Dale unveils his splatter comedy RIBSPREADER. And the subject of PUB and actor in RIBSPREADER, Melbourne artist and punk rocker Fred Negro, is along for the gonzo adventure!

Filmmakers & Fred Negro will be present for Intro/ Q&A.

FAREWELL EUROPE TOUR

THAMESMEAD TEXAS are proud to present The AUSSIE PUNK ROCK MASSACRE.

SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2024

6:30PM – THE THAMESMEAD TEXAS ART BAR OPENS! 

7:30PM – FILM STARTS. CLOSES MIDNIGHT.

PUB: THE MOVIE (2022)

A beautiful rock’n’roll love letter to a bygone era and staying true to one’s art, and featuring interviews with rock legends including Tim Rogers (You Am I), Greg Macainsh (Skyhooks), Ross Knight (Cosmic Psychos) and Paul Stewart (Painters And Dockers), PUB: THE MOVIE was a smash hit at the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival where it broke the Astor Theatre’s bar record! (78 mins)

ANDREW LEAVOLD

Andrew Leavold owned and managed Trash Video, the largest cult video rental store in Australia, from 1995 to 2010. He is also a filmmaker, published author, researcher, film festival curator, musician, TV presenter, and above all, unrepentant and voracious fan of the pulpier aspects of genre cinema.

RIBSPREADER (2022)

“Smokin’, it’ll kill you in the end. One way or another…” Decades after his career as a tobacco advertising icon, Bryan Burns’ life is in ruins. After his mother dies of lung cancer, he is tormented by a talking cigarette from an anti-smoking billboard who blames him for his mother’s death. Bryan’s already fragile mental state can’t handle the abuse and he snaps, transforming himself into The Ribspreader – a killer stalking the city streets, extinguishing smokers one-by-one and cutting out their lungs to make his macabre smoking jacket. But in a city of murderers, freaks and perverts, The Ribspreader isn’t the only killer out there and it’s not long before a turf war for victims erupts into a horrific showdown of explosive violence and bloody carnage! (90 mins)

DICK DALE

South Australian’s Dick Dale has been creating short horror and bad taste comedies filthy films since 1993. He spawned and has been curating the infamous and irreverent Trasharama-ago go Film Festival which is now celebrating it’s twenty Fifth year. Trasharama is the premiere and undisputed nastiest film Festival in Australia. It annually screens short horror, bad taste comedy and other cinematic oddities from all over this planet. 

Supported by Bow Arts Trust