CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING
Screening with BANJO and CAKES
Saturday 23rd November - 22:50
CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING (London Premiere)
Dir:Sander Maran. Starring: Laura Niils, Karl-Joosep Ilves, Janno Puusepp. Estonia (2024) 117mins
Tom is a hopeless romantic down on his luck... just as he’s about to drown himself in a river, he spies the beautiful Maria figuratively drowning her sorrows nearby. The two are quickly frolicking through the countryside together, until their romance is rudely interrupted by a “fuckface with a chainsaw” who lays Tom low and abducts Maria into his chain-festooned van. Determined to rescue her, Tom teams up with a passing goofball motorist, but there will be plenty of obstacles on the way to the couple’s reunion, not the least of which is Tom and Jaan’s ineptitude at heroics.
Chainsaws Were Singing is an absolutely bonkers action-horror-musical-comedy B-movie epic from Estonia unlike anything you've ever seen; as puerile as it is ingenious, leave your sense of good taste at the door for the midnight movie madness of the year.
Movie Maths: TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE x MONTY PYTHON + LES MISERABLES = CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING
Screening with BANJO (European Premiere)
Dir: Cameron Poletti. Starring: Alex Poletti, T.J. Sullivan, Hunter Torr. USA (2024) 15mins.
Isaac is thrilled when his friend offers him the use of his family’s cabin in the woods to lose his virginity. But when his first time goes horribly wrong, he begins to believe it may be the work of a sinister circumcision cult!
and CAKES!
Dir: Johnny Herbin. Starring: Rebecca Ritchie-Smith, Rasmus Kull, Esther Dennis. U.K. (2024) 2mins.
A grieving woman follows a singing cake into a magical world within her oven.
Festival passes and individual tickets can be purchased at Tickets for Soho Horror Film Festival 2024 - FilmFreeway