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Bristol Bad Film Club scales back its events
For a decade now, the Bristol Bad Film Club has been unleashing cinematic crap upon delighted audiences. They’ve notched up more than 100 screenings in that time and have raised £35,000 for local and international causes along the way.
But all bad things have to come to a . . . hiatus. Locating and screening the world’s worst films is a time-consuming process and founder Ti Singh and his team have other competing commitments – notably growing and expanding the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival.
So they’ve decided to reduce the number of Bristol Bad Film Club screenings they put on. “Instead of monthly screenings, they’ll be on a more ad hoc basis such as whenever we discover a ‘must screen’ title or Greg Sestero comes to town,” they tell us.
The good news is that they’re bidding us a temporary farewell with a screening of Caveman. This extraordinary 1981 slapstick comedy pitches a former Beatle against stop-motion dinosaurs as he sets out to woo a Bond girl. Yep, that’s Ringo Starr as caveman Atouk, who craves the woman of a rival clan leader.
The film’s dialogue takes the form of a completely made-up ‘caveman language’. Ringo certainly seems to have enjoyed himself on set as this was the film on which he met his future wife, Barbara Bach, who plays the object of Atouk’s affections.
The screening takes place at the BBFC’s regular venue, Bristol Improv Theatre, on Thursday 22 February. Tickets are already sold out, but you can join the waiting list for returns here.
As for the Club itself: “We will return,” they promise. “Just much less frequently.”
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