WHAT HAVE THEY DONE
TO THE MOVIES!?
CLOSE THAT BOX
COME TO OUR OPEN INVITED SCREENING
Saturday November 30, 6:30 PM, The State Theatre, 130 W College Ave, State College, PA 16801
In this wild and crazy new comedy from debut filmmaker Jackson Pavlik, five friends hoping to recapture the nostalgia of their childhood home movies unleash a nightmare universe where they are sucked into three separate stories — a swashbuckling pirate adventure, an apocalyptic political thriller, and a surreal and spooky western. The world they once knew is now overcome with spoon-handed sea captains, bumbling secret agents, ecoterrorist bandits, brainwashed fascist Italian zombies, chili pepper sheriffs, genderbending devoutly Christian knights, human-animal hybrids of all species, and other bizarre characters. Can they get their wits about them long enough to return home?
Spoofing everything from The Pirates of Penzance to The Dark Tower, from Inside Out to All The President’s Men, this deranged epic of a film features a massive ensemble cast of the comic stars of tomorrow, including Shane Troxell, Hannah Armstrong, Logan Uhrich, Mal McKenzie, Korey Grecek, PJ Witkowski, Julia Salvato, Taylor Elliott, Taran Pelkey, Keri Carroll, Tynan Butler, Andrew Buonaccorsi, Rafaela Torchia Carvalho Castro, John Michael Rosenblum, Jack Hosler, Lucy Snyder, Duncan Wentzel, and Dylan Henderson, with cameos from Eisner Award nominated cartoonist Jay Hosler, internationally acclaimed operatic tenor Richard Troxell, and beloved character actor Lee Wilkof (Little Shop of Horrors, School of Rock, Waitress, YellowBrickRoad).
“A transcendent NEW MOVIE. Reshapes the very foundation of cinema. Jackson pavlik is a filmmaker to watch. They’ll be talking about this one for ages!”
— Dillon Flammar, critic, Pretentious Movies Magazine
“Totally AND COMPLETELY makes sense!”
— Larry Stairclimber, award-winning writer of “The Lick: How To Reshape Your Fate Through Jazz Magic”
“Make it shorter.”
— Shannon O’Neill, former artistic director of the Upright Citizens Brigade
“Nah, keep it Three hours long!”
— Chris Gethard, star of The Chris Gethard Show
“[confused blinking]”
— Sarah Sherman, star of Saturday Night Live
Jackson PAVLIK
Jackson Pavlik is a New York based director, actor, & songwriter. A native of Central Pennsylvania and child of two national-championship winning collegiate volleyball coaches, Pavlik majored in theatre at Penn State University. As a performer he has appeared in musicals and plays affiliated with Penn State Centre Stage, The Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, FUSE Productions, & 54 Below. For the past 15 years he has been the creative director and producer of the amateur film company “Jackson & Company.”
Pavlik is well known for having ended American combat involvement in Vietnam in 1973, and the military draft the same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he then concluded the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. Domestically, Pavlik pushed for the Controlled Substances Act and began the war on drugs. His hobbies include songwriting, reading long novels, secretly dropping large boxes of fragile porcelain dolls in the Hudson River, and spending time with his beloved pet manatee, Bunkee.
THEODORE
ROSENBLUM
Theodore Rosenblum is a writer, director, actor, comedian, and (on this project) producer from Pennsylvania. His previous works include the films Player Piano and Wasted Potential. He is an alumnus of Penn State University and the Maine Media Workshops.
His primary occupation is opening and closing doors for the cat.
