Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy at the Backseat Film Fest tonight!

That’s right, Director Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy will be on hand to present our tribute to Adam Rifkin! And then we’re doing Strip for Pain for the afterparty, with Ron Jeremy co-hosting! And also, there is free booze at all the screenings! The Backseat Film Festival is ready for day 8!

We have screenings at 4pm with short films from all over the world and then we have the Rifkin double feature with his new movie National Lampoon’s “The Stoned Age” at 7pm and his cult classic “The Dark Backward” at 9pm!

National Lampoon’s the Stoned Age” stars Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy as well as Heroes’ Ali Larter, David Carradine, Carol Alt, Tom Arnold and more! “The Dark Backward” is also a Philly premiere after 17 years and stars Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton and Lara Flynn Boyle!

Everything goes down TODAY, Sat, March 14th at the 941 Theater. 941 N. Front St, Philadelphia PA 19123 – www.941theater.com

Strip for Pain will be performed live at the afterparty at Midnight at the M Room (15 W Girard Ave, Philly PA)!

All the info, tickets and more at : www.backseatfilmfestival.com
www.stripforpain.com

About the movies:
Backseat Film Fest – Day 8 - SATURDAY, MARCH 14th – 3 SCREENING BLOCKS

4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 3 – A selection of the finest rock n’ roll shorts and music videos!

(Not in screening order)

Cottonmouth - 7 min - Christopher P. Garetano
Even - 6 min - Ben Jurin
Dead Sucks - 9 min - Elias
Heading Home - 11 min - Jane Rose
A Clown Carol - The Marley Murder Mystery - 9 min - Brian A. Bernhard
Puppet Rodeo - 4 min - Kevin Maher
Nuclear Winter - 14 min - Jeremy Carr
Dec. 2666 - 12 min - Derek Roden, James Hollenbaugh
The Collinwood Campaign - 15 min - Ryan Mains
Eve - 2 min - David N. Pilling
Nomansland - 15 min - Scott Belyea
Bunny Suits - 25 min - Colinns Schude
Bust-Out – 3 min - The Superkiiids
Woman to Woman – 2 min - The Superkiiids
Flanagan Smith "Otto Wood the Bandit" – 6 min - Michael Patrick F. Smith

7pm & 9:30pm – Backseat Film Fest’s Tribute to Adam Rifkin – Tribute to a filmmaker who has had a particularly diverse career, from Hollywood successes like ‘Detroit Rock City’, ‘Small Soldiers’, & ‘Mousehunt’ to more underground fare like the cult classics ‘The Dark Backward’ and ‘Night at the Golden Eagle’. We present his latest film, ‘Homo Erectus’ as well as our favorite Rifkin classic, the Dark Backward! - Director/Star Adam Rifkin in Attendance for Q & A!

7pm - HOMO ERECTUS - (AKA National Lampoon’s the Stoned Age) – 95 min. - A comedy set in prehistoric times following the exploits of the hapless Ishbo (Rifkin), a philosophical caveman who yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones, and raw meat. Determined to single-handedly advance the human race, Ishbo continually irritates his fellow Neanderthals with ridiculous inventions like the toothbrush, the spoon, and pants. The rest of his tribe, including his exasperated parents (KUNG-FU’s David Carradine and Talia Shire), write off his absurd gizmos and forward thinking ideas as the ravings of an idiot, something that doesn’t help his efforts to impress the beautiful Fardart (Ali Larter - HEROES), the cave girl he loves from afar. Fardart only has eyes for Ishbo’s studly but dimwitted brother, Thudnik (Hayes MacArthur). As if things couldn’t get any worse, the enemy tribe on the other side of the hill is readying for war. Will Ishbo ever win Fardart’s love? Can he possibly survive a man-eating wooly mammoth or a man-hating tribe of beautiful but deadly Amazons? Can he finally pull his species out of the primordial doldrums before he’s history? Featuring hilarious appearances by Gary Busey, Tom Arnold, Ron Jeremy, Carol Alt and more!

9:30pm - THE DARK BACKWARD (1991) PHILLY THEATRICAL PREMIERE AFTER 17 YEARS! – 101 min. - Adam Rifkin’s cult classic follows Marty Malt, (Judd Nelson) a nerd who pursues a stand-up comedy career encouraged by his fellow garbage man, Gus (Bill Paxton). Though Gus (who accompanies him on accordion) continues to tell him how great he is, Marty actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, Gus uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent (Wayne Newton), and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend (Lara Flynn Boyle) is freaked out by his new appendage!

Midnight – Afterparty at M Room featuring Strip for Pain: America’s Most Dangerous Gameshow!
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And dont forget, Sunday is our last day of screenings and the closing ceremonies for the Backseat Film Festival!!

SUNDAY, MARCH 15th – 3 SCREENING BLOCKS

4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 4 – A selection of the finest rock n’ roll shorts and music videos!
(Not in screening order)
• Going Public - 22min
• Joey and Jerome's Artistic Meaningful Independent Film - 23 min - Josh Bass
• Ipso Facto - 9 min - Anna-Maria Vag
• Paid Advertisement: Power Mini Ultra-Flex Turbo - 10 min - Better Hollywood
• W.H.M - 14 min - Karl “New Cinema” Starkweather
• In The Dark - 19 min - Enrique Garcia
• I Love Sarah Jane - 14 min - Spencer Stussy
• I Love (St.) Louis – 7 min - Joe Lachajczyk
• Freak Dance: Dancin in da Streetz – 5 min - Upright Citizens Brigade
• High on Life – 4 min - Upright Citizens Brigade
• Verizon Gang – 1 min - Upright Citizens Brigade

7pm – Strange Girls – 98 min. - Dir. Rona Mark - Twin sisters, unable and unwilling to talk to anyone but each other, live a nearly comatose life in a psychiatric institute. After the murder of their psychiatrist, they are released onto the streets of Pittsburgh. Extreme strangeness ensues.

Plays with:
• Eel Girl - 6 min - Paul Campion

9:30pm – Run, Bitch! Run! – 85 min. - Dir. Joseph Guzman - Catherine and Rebecca are two Catholic School girls going door-to-door selling Religious paraphernalia in order to pay for their books and education. Things go horribly wrong when they knock on the wrong door in the wrong neighborhood. Run! Bitch Run! is a throw back to the classic 1970's Rape and Revenge films like 'Last House On the Left' and 'Ms. 45.
Closing Film

Plays with:
• Red Princess Blues - 8 min - Alex Ferrari

Midnight – Closing Ceremonies

It's all at the 941 Theater!
www.backseatfilmfestival.com