This year San Diego Comic Con International festival attendees will part the curtains to open th Thursday, July 21st at 11:55 PM with a Troma Movie’s double-feature of 19 year-old director Kansas Bowling’s debut film, B.C. Butcher alongside Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s early toe-tapping TroMasterpiece, Cannibal! The Musical, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman, prexy of Troma Entertainment and creator of The Toxic Avenger.
Lloyd Kaufman himself will be making an appearance at the midnight screening event.
B.C. Butcher, which was narrated by Kadeem Hardison and also stars Kato Kaelin, is history’s first ever PaleoSoCal Cave-Girl Gang Party Slasher! With an upbeat retro musical and art styling straight from Back to the Beach meets Swamp Thing, Bowling’s first effort in filmmaking has already been regarded as a genuinely Tromatic film that clubs you over the head with comedy and cuties!
B.C. Butcher was released by Troma Entertainment in January of 2016. The film, which was shot on 16 mm in Kansas Bowling’s backyard in Topanga County, California received its World Premiere at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California and is continually gaining success in the film festival circuit! B.C. Butcher was just announced as an Official Selection for the 2016 CIM-Suece Film Festival in Valencia, Spain, scheduled for September 15-19, 2016. Bowling has also directed a number of music videos, including one for “Natalie Denise Sperl’s Kill My Coquette” and “Death Valley Girls”.
The second screening similarly upholds the early filmmaking efforts of a previously undiscovered talent, Matt Stone and Trey Parker (creators of South Park) with a screening of their cult indie musical, Cannibal! The Musical,which was released by Troma Entertainment in 1993.
But 18 years before “Scott Tenorman Must Die,” and four years before Cartman got an anal probe in the very first episode of South Park, Matt and Trey collaborated on their first, and most hilariously ghoulish, film: Cannibal! The Musical. Originally titled Alfred Packer: The Musical, the movie is loosely based on the story of Packer, a Pennsylvania-born prospector who set out on a mission for gold from Utah to Colorado in 1873. Packer, along with five others, quickly became hopelessly lost and he, depending on whose story you believe, either both killed and ate the party he was with, or shot the man – Wilson Bell – who did the murdering.
Lloyd Kaufman will be in appearance at the Marriot Marquis Marina D South Tower on Thursday night for the double-feature and also will be appearing at the Official Troma Booth #4017 this year at the San Diego Comic Con International 2016 alongside his Troma Team West Coast, Kansas Bowling and . A 9:00 PM panel held on Saturday night at SDCC International 2016 will feature guests including Lloyd Kaufman, former NYC Film Commissioner Pat Kaufman, Oakland based artist and street wear merchandiser and The Toxic Avenger portrait-creator Skinner and Jason McHugh, producer of Electric Apricot, who will also be presenting a trailer of Les Claypool’s film.
