THE FILMS

BADASS Film Festival: Special Preview SUGAR ROT
3:00PM - SUNDAY, OCT 20, 2024

The Tenth Annual Vancouver Badass  Film Festival kicks off with a Preview Screening of the Rio’s own Becca Kozak (Girls with Guts)’s first outrageous narrative feature Sugar Rot (Canada, 80 minutes), described as a wild “exploitation film that’s both funny and punk with some intellectual bite if you can get past the initial shock.” Some parts of the film were shot in and around The Rio Theatre including with the band Daddy Issues on stage. Cast and crew attending with filmmakers Q&A following the screenings. Preceded by the very sexy BDSM short Contraception (Canada, 4.5 minutes, dir Becca Kozak), and Nadine L’Esperance’s insane bloody puppet shocker: From One Hole to Another (Canada, 7mins). All the trigger warnings for an early John Waters/Troma-esque exploitation for a new generation afternoon launch of Badass 10. 

Contraception Trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRT9HA9qWs

Sugar Rot Trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASbqandw6jY

Sunday, October 20
Doors 2:30 pm | Movie 4:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Sugar Rot (2024, dir Becca Kozak) A girl named Candy is raped by an ice cream man and becomes host to a mutant baby. She experiences an accelerated pregnancy. When she starts to turn into ice cream she is commodified by the men around her as something to be consumed. In the end, her lover consumes her completely. (80m, Special Preview).

15$ in advance ($20 at the door)

BADASS Film Festival: The Stickman's Hollow
5:00PM - SUNDAY, OCT 20, 2024

Badass 10 continues with The North American premiere of the terrifying new found footage feature film: The Stickman’s Hollow (Canada, 83minutes, dir: Jack Cox).  Shot all around BC by a team of horror veterans, The Stickman’s Hollow has been called Blair Witch meets The Exorcist. Preceded by the haunting new shorts Manic Sparkle: Parable of Death and Non-death (Iran, 5min, dir: Nima Grey Crow) and School’s Out (Canada, 3.5m, dir: Warren Dean Fulton), with casts and crew attending and a filmmaker’s Q&A following the screenings.  

The Stickman’s Hollow, trailer: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEUqiwDtrBk

Sunday, October 20
Doors 4:30 pm | Movie 5:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time

15$ in advance ($20 at the door)