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THIS IS GWAR:

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Decades of blood and monsters

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This Is GWAR - 2021 - Scott Barber

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Shudder Picks Up Award-Winning Documentary THIS IS GWAR!

One of the leading horror streaming services Shudder announced today they have acquired the award-winning documentary, THIS IS GWAR! This doc highlights the 30+ year career of one of the most outrageous heavy metal bands in history. Keep reading for more details down below. From The Press Release NEW YORK – June 14, 2022 – Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller,…

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2021 Nightstream - part 4

I’m thrilled to be covering this year’s Nightstream online film festival! Check out my coverage so far here. There are loads of genre feature films, retro screenings, short films, panels, and conversations. Here is my second dispatch from the festival!

In the history of music, there’s one band that is in a category all their own. Gwar burst onto the scene in the late 80s / early 90s and were a weird combination of shock rock stage show (like Alice Cooper and Kiss before them), S&M imagery, horror and monster movie theatrics, and heavy metal sound. The band came onstage as monsters and costumed, so much of the time you didn’t even know what the band members looked like. Over the years, they had a lot of pop culture cameos: appearing in a daydream in Empire Records, becoming favorites of Beavis and Butt-Head, and more. In the new documentary This is Gwar, director Scott Barber (who co-directed last year’s excellent Nickelodeon doc The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story) is doing a deep dive into Gwar. Too bad, news just recently broke about how Dave Grohl almost joined the band when he was a teen, and that news broke too late to find its way into this doc.

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The doc started out strong. It showed the band was more than just a rock band, they were like an art collective / garage band / production company. It shows the band’s trajectory and several dramatic points in the band’s history (some members died, some came close). There’s also some interviews with notable fans (Matt Pinfield, Thomas Lennon, Alex Winter, Weird Al Yankovic and Empire Records’ Ethan Embry). While it was intriguing to get up close with a band you never see behind their masks, it felt like this was a bit long at almost 2 hours. It could’ve been a lot stronger as a short feature (under 90 min.) or long short (30-45 min.). It was wildly entertaining to see some of the clips of the band, but as a non-fan, this felt very For Fans Only at a certain point.

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In early 2019, Shudder premiered their original documentary Horror Noire about the history of black horror films (read my review here). The success of that doc has lead Shudder to produce an original Horror Noire anthology series that is set to premiere this month. To celebrate, I caught the conversation Celebration of Horror Noire presented by Shudder featuring author Tananarive Due (one of the interviewees in the Horror Noire doc) and writer Steven Barnes (one of the writers of the Horror Noire anthology) and moderated by film critic and programmer Sarah-Tai Black. It was a great conversation and I’m looking forward to the anthology!