Trash! The Wildest Films You’ve Ever Seen

There’ll be murder, mayhem, sleaze and sex in droves at the BFI’s upcoming season ‘Trash! The Wildest Films You’ve Ever Seen’. The programme is a homage to the low-budget DIY American movies that were confined to cheap drive-ins, alternative art spaces and midnight movie palaces. Delighting in ‘bad taste’, they’re some of the weirdest, trashiest, most transgressive films ever made. The season’s headline event is a cabaret show with filmmakers Mink Stole and Peaches Christ (April 10) featuring storytelling, film clips and live song inspired by trash cinema. It’s standout screening is the world premiere of a brand new 35mm print of Ed Wood’s bizarre Plan 9 From Outer Space, dubbed the ‘worst film of all time’ (April 21). A motley crew of other twentieth century B-movies from the likes of John Waters, Russ Meyer and George Kuchar will also be showing, including Sins of the Fleshapoids, Reefer Madness, Blood Feast and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.