Something to watch tonight: Friday 26 July

Deathgasm (Lei Howden, 2015)

When I’m in recycle mode, I usu­ally dir­ect you to the ori­gin­al Capital Times or FishHead review at the Funerals & Snakes archive or to RNZ.

This is one that I didn’t write up for any of those but I did log it on Letterboxd:

I don’t remem­ber too much about this thanks to a rip­per of an after-party. I do recall hav­ing a fun time though and look for­ward to see­ing it again.

There you have it.

Thanks to Ant Timpson, pro­gram­mer at the time of the Incredibly Strange strand of the New Zealand International Film Festival, who invited me to the screen­ing and then took a few of us to Valhalla, the met­al ven­ue in Wellington where (I think) I met a few of the festival’s inter­na­tion­al guests.

I do remem­ber being thrilled to see a few of my act­or pals (shout out to Steven Ure, Andrew Laing and Cameron Rhodes) hav­ing such a good time in sup­port­ing roles, often coated in lib­er­al amounts of fake blood.

What’s it about? Oh, here’s a good write-up from someone who actu­ally took some notes.

Where to watch Deathgasm

Aotearoa: Digital rent­al at AroVision

Australia: Digital rent­al at Apple or Microsoft

Canada: Streaming on AMC+

Ireland and UK: Digital rental

USA: Streaming on Prime Video or Peacock

Further reading and listening

My New Zealand International Film Festival pre­view just got pos­ted at RNZ – I’ve actu­ally seen five of the fea­tures in the pro­gramme – and my reg­u­lar appear­ance on Nights with Emile Donovan will be at about 9.45 tonight.