ICFS

Thanks to all the frighting Zombies and Undead Cheerleaders who came out to Halloween Horrorfest.
Home Movie was unearvingly disturbing, Freaks was a classic blueprint to the fetish community and Evil Dead 2 still brings the sugar baby.
IF you werer there, what was cool? What sucked?
Next project for the ICFS ccrew is one man star wars in January. But after that, where do we go?
Till NExt time… Thank you.

Ford Prefect, Number 6, Peter

BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT!!! First person to buy a ticket gets a special treat. No trick!

IT CAME FROM SCHENECTADY
Halloween Horror Film Fest ‘08
Friday, October 31, 2008
11:00 PM
FEAR, BEER, FILMS and FREAKS!
Get ready for a Halloween line up of macabre movies, crazy costumes and killer games and prizes from the film freaks at IT CAME FROM SCHENECTADY. Halloween Horror Film Fest features a trio of monstrous movie offerings. Spend the witching hour in the GE Theater at the IT CAME From Schenectady, HALLOWEEN HORROR FILM FEST. If you came to our 24-Hour SciFi film festival, you know how much fun this will be. If not, put on your Joker makeup and party with us on Halloween!

FILMS:

11pm - HOME MOVIE - U.S. Premiere. Stars Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Patrelli from Heroes)!
1am- FREAKS - Tod Browning’s Cult Classic - Freaky!
2:10am - EVIL DEAD 2 - Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Say no more!

$14- Buy Tickets here

$10 Student Ticket price - In person only.

Find below the link to Barry Longyear’s Webmansion and his blog/gallery about his trip to It Came From Schenectady. Enjoy.

Click Here

It Came From Schenectady is in the history books. Over all, 200 of you came out at different times to travel the Starship Insomnia with us with 50 of you going pole to pole. We had college students, single guys, single ladies and whole Familys. Everyone got a prize, everyone had a great time and it could not have gone better.
And how about Barry Longyear!?
What about the excellent singing contest on the Mainstage?
Remember when Dr. Morbius streaked in front of Barbarella!? No…well, I was told that happened.
Ford is going to sleep now. But I wanted to givee veryone a place to psot your thoughts on the fest. We WILL so this again. What, how and when is up to you.

Don’t Panic - Ford Prefect

Come and go as you please.
No, you DON’T have to stay for all the films. A stylish (and possibly collectable) wrist band will be issued to you so you can view as many films as you wish, whenever you wish. Come and go as you please. Although hardcore marathoners who stay the ENTIRE 24 hours will be recognized, e.g. “Hey, aren’t you the guy who stayed all 24 hours?”

Caffeine
The Muddy Cup will be serving high octane coffee the entire 24 hours, with sides of sugar. Any other stimulants are your own business.

Bring your kit
Yes, bring food, drink (no glass), Visine, personal masseuse, tinfoil hat, sleeping bag. If it fits in your seat area, smells okay and doesn’t obstruct the view, you’re probably okay.

Get comfortable
Oh, the humble pillow! What a friend in need after several hours of sitting. Bring your favorite tush cushion, neck noodle, slippers. And don’t be afraid to change seats, stretch your legs, take a break, grab a bite, light calisthenics. The GE Theater is your living room for this event, we want to you treat it as such, providing we all remain considerate of other guests.

Hungry?
In addition to food at the Muddy Cup, Proctors’ snack bar will remain open for the duration. You are welcome to pack a snack as well—Reese’s Cups, Red Bull, the usual—though glass bottles and alcohol will not be permitted. How fun swapping snacks with your friends—you know, like summer camp.

Hygiene.
So many restrooms, so little time! There will be ample down time between films to stretch and clean up, though you may miss a few (film) shorts, and restrooms are right next door. If you plan on sticking around for the whole gig, consider a toothbrush and your favorite roll-on. Please.

Ideas?
Blog this site! What did we forget? Questions? Bring ‘em on!

Besides being a musician and producer, Rick Bedrosian is a long time
movie aficionado. Read the rest of this entry »

Here it is, the running schedule for ICFS! Stay tuned for additions and new film announcements.*
*Schedule subject to change
Block A:

12:00pm - Welcome
12:11pm - Forbidden Planet
2:07pm - Enemy Mine
4:15pm - A Boy and His Dog
6:08pm - Viewers Choice Film

Block B:
8:44pm - Barry B. Longyear (author of Enemy Mine and It Came from Schenectady) Q&A
9:40pm - Dreams with Sharp Teeth
12:00am - BladeRunner - the Final Cut
2:10am - Tokyo Gore Police

Block C:
4:20am - Barbarella
6:18am - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie! *Just announced
7:31am- Short Film Collection *Just announced!
9:21 -Edie Meyers and Star Crash Q&A
10:26 - Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D

So, you want to come to the Festival but the 24 Hour thing scares you? Not a problem. There are two solutions to your super-fan fear.
One, the $35($45 at the door) Festival Pass lets you come and go as you please. See some films, leave, sleep and return later, or don’t. The Festival Pass leaves it up to you.
Or two, just announced, for just $20 get one of three 8-Hour Passes. These give you admission for one of the three specific blocks which we will be posting on the web here within the next day. Come at noon and stay until 8pm. Or come at 8pm and stay until 4am. Or come at 4am and stay until Sunday at noon. Each block is full of great films, prizes and fun. And if you want to upgrade when you are there, no problem at all. We’ll take your money.
So, don’t wait, go click that BUY TICKETS button in the right hand corner of the web site. See you on the 13th.

It has dawned on Dr. Morbius that our lineup features some of SciFi’s most endearing and enduring beauties. Barbarella (jane fonda) skipped right over sexy and into out-and-out fetish; Forbidden Planet’s most eligible bachelorette Altaira (Anne Francis) was the girl (from the planet) next door. Quilla June Holmes (Susanne Benton) whet the appetites of many a moviegoer in ‘A boy and His Dog’. Raku (Eihi Shiina) fulfills all, Japanese schoolgirl / hot vengeful killercop / monsterbabe hybrid, fantasies in ‘TGP’. ‘Blade Runner’ is a veritable pageant of alluring replicants; Rachael (Sean Young), the smoking and smoking hot object of investigation/affection; the calisthenicly homicidal Pris (Daryl Hannah) and let us not forget the sympathetic, capable and dangerous, Zhora (Joanna Cassidy). After Anne Darrow (Fay Wray) graced the paw of her hairy suitor and before the globularly coiffed Princess was enslaved by Jabba; Kay Lawrence (Julie Adams), was the fatal object of attraction for the scaly manfish from the Black Lagoon. The good doctor has not forgotten that our films also feature pre Miami (and better dressed because of it) Don Johnson, hemanly handsome heroic heartthrob - Harrison Ford, still kickin around - Leslie Nielsen, rugged - Rutger Hauer and John Phillip Law as Barbarella’s - babeman / birdman. Have I forgotten anyone? Who is the most beautiful woman, handsome man, of SciFi?

Visited the soon to be completed EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) facility at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy this week. EMPAC is meant to be a home for spaces in which art in motion and science meet in the service of our senses. Studio 1, left above in its raw form is 3500 sq feet and its walls will be covered in white acoustical tiles, each individually adjustable. In its current dark state Graeme Mckenna of zombiefeast fame noted “looks like the holodeck” an opinion echoed by NYU student, Lecco Morris, I agreed and although the tiles look cool in the artist’s renderings, I will miss the nefarious look of the bare walls. The studio is prepared for sound sources, projections and the ‘flying’ of subjects or objects through the space… not exactly a holodeck, but a good precursor. Of the interior exterior of the concert hall, above right, Graeme chimed again “the pods from 2001″ these 2 entrances (only one is visible here) are much more dramatic in person. EMPAC opens Oct 3… be there or b2. http://www.empac.rpi.edu/