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L.A. Readers! The Cinefamily Is Showing CARNIVAL MAGIC This Saturday Night! Chimp-Talkin' Enchantment Awaits!

Beaks here...

The Cinefamily is kicking off their "Fucked Up Kids Movie" series in high, sui genris style with one of the most inexplicable movies ever made: Al Adamnson's CARNIVAL MAGIC. I saw this very special feature last year during Lars Nilsen's and Zack Carlson's touring Cinemapocalypse, and was stunned by how thoroughly this so-called "family film" lived down to its reputation. I could try to explain why this ostensibly heartwarming tale of a kind carnival magician and his talking chimpanzee goes way, way wrong, but you honestly just have to see this thing for yourself. So do it. Get your ass to the Cinefamily this Saturday night (5/8) and buy yourself a ticket to the 10:45 PM screening (tickets are also available online). And get there early, because this film's reputation tends to draw out the most avid of cinephiles. Also, if you're so inclined, bring something to get you a little loose. It will only help. I'll leave the summarizing to Lars, whose love for this film is unconditional and more than a little tawdry...
"If you’re a fan of the cinematic badlands, you’ve seen some pretty strange things, but unless you’ve guzzled embalming fluid on the moon with Bigfoot, you’ve never seen anything quite as awe-inspiringly jacked-up as this 'inspirational' carny kids' film from the director of Satan's Sadists and Black Samurai. It might be 'educational' for kids to see a lion tamer gratuitously slapping his girlfriend around, or a teenage girl giving an ape a "happy ending," but we don’t know if we'd be prepared to field Junior’s many questions about all the unsavory goings-on in the cheapest, most depraved carnival this side of Tod Browning’s Freaks. Why anyone thought this was appropriate for children, we’ll never understand."
Finally, a word to would-be hecklers: CARNIVAL MAGIC is far funnier in its own demented way than you'll ever be on beer three of the evening. So please let the movie do its thing sans commentary. Your fellow moviegoers will appreciate your restraint, and I won't have to set you on fire.

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