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Rooftop Films presents: Best Worst Movie (Event Over)
- When:Fri 7/31 (8PM)
- Where: Automotive High School
- Address: 50 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn , NY Map
- Cost: $9-25
Tickets for this Event
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General Admission - $9.00
No refunds. In the event of rain, show will go on indoors at the same location. Seating is first come, first served. Physical seats are limited. This means you may not get a chair. You are welcome to bring a blanket and sit picnic-style.
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Combo Ticket - Troll 2 & Best Worst Movie - $11.00
Not Available General admission ticket(as detailed above)for both the 7/30 Troll 2 screening & the 7/31 Best Worst Movie screening.
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Rooftop friend ($11 General Admission ticket to Troll 2 and best - $15.00
Did you know that Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization? Consider making this additional $6 donation with the purchase of your General Admission ticket, and help sustain Rooftop Films during these difficult times. Additional donation is not tax deductible.
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Rooftop patron ($11 General Admission ticket to Troll 2 and best - $25.00
Did you know that Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization? Consider making this additional $16 donation with the purchase of your General Admission ticket, and help sustain Rooftop Films during these difficult times. Additional donation is not tax deductible.
FRIDAY JULY 31
ROOFTOP FILMS AND
VERIZON FIOS PRESENT
BEST WORST MOVIE
NEW YORK PREMIERE
An acclaimed feature length documentary that takes us on an
off-beat journey into the undisputed worst movie in cinematic
history:
Troll 2. Directed by the now grown child star of the awful horror classic,
this documentary is both hilarious and touching, providing insights
into artistic vision and dashed dreams.
OPEN BAR AFTER PARTY FOLLOWING THE SCREENING FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE
BUY A
COMBO TICKET HERE AND GAIN ADMISSION TO TROLL 2 ON THURSDAY
AND BEST WORST MOVIE ON FRIDAY
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OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE |
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BUY A COMBO TICKET TO TROLL 2 & BEST WORST MOVIE
No refunds. In the event of rain, the show will be indoors at
the same locations. Seating is first come, first served. Physical
seats are limited. This means you may not get a chair. You are
welcome to bring a blanket and picnic.
SPECIAL OFFER:
Buy a ticket to see Troll 2 on Thursday night and you will also gain admission to see
Best Worst Movie on Friday night.
BEST WORST MOVIE (Michael Paul Stephenson | California | 74 min)
In 1989, when an Italian filmmaker and unwitting Utah actors shot
the ultra-low budget horror film, Troll 2, they had no idea that
twenty years later they would be celebrated worldwide for their
legendary ineptitude. Just ten years old, first-time thespian
Michael Paul Stephenson played Joshua, the young son in the film.
There were a few hiccups in production, but as the shooting wrapped
he expected that Goblins (as the film was originally titled) would
soon be out in theaters, and he assumed he would be on the path
towards inevitable movie stardom. Perhaps the movie wouldn’t
be the next Gremlins or Labyrinth, but horror films were hot in
1989, and how bad could the film possibly be?
But Goblins was terrible and didn’t come out in theaters.
Ever. So, on Christmas morning one year later, the film, now
renamed Troll 2, was released on VHS and Michael and his parents
headed over to their local video store to rent it. On that morning,
as he watched Troll 2 in his living room, Michael Paul Stephenson
wept. His career in entertainment might not have been entirely
doomed at age 11, but he was pretty sure that it was not going to
flourish as a result of his participation in Troll 2. But he was
wrong.
Three years ago, Stephenson started getting MySpace messages and
emails from teenagers all over the world with photos attached
featuring kids dressing-up like goblins, eating green food and
pissing on dinner tables. These were pictures of their Troll 2
parties, and there were lots of them. Over the course of 15 years,
horror-hungry teenagers all over the world had picked up old copies
of Troll 2 out of curiosity and they independently discovered that
this was not an ordinary bad movie. It was quite possibly the best
worst movie. Soon thereafter, comedy clubs and independent movie
theaters began organizing Troll 2 revival screenings and selling
out huge theaters, inviting the stars of the original film out to
the shows, and attracting Troll 2 fans in full costume.
Stephenson, now working on documentaries and studying film,
realized that this was a story he was born to tell. He tracked down
all the major (and many minor) stars of Troll 2 and began to
document their stories. Troll 2 had driven some of the actors into
instant retirement, while a few others had continued in show
business. A few others had fallen upon seriously hard times. Twenty
years after Troll 2 was made, as the unlikely resurgence of Troll 2
unfolded around the world, Stephenson captured their lives and
began to piece together the history of the constituent parts that
had serendipitously come together to produce this historically
awful film.
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OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE |
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Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
engage and inspire the diverse communities of New York City by
showcasing the work of emerging filmmakers and musicians. In
addition to our Summer Series – which takes place in unique
outdoor venues every weekend throughout the summer – Rooftop
provides grants to filmmakers, teaches media literacy and
filmmaking to young people, rents low-cost equipment to artists and
non-profits, and produces new independent films. At Rooftop Films,
we bring the underground outdoors. For more information and updates
please visit our website at
www.rooftopfilms.com.
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