Murderkino: Altar-Knife War-Witch |

by
Scott Clifford Evans

Austria, 2020, 00:22:44

Directed, produced, written, edited by Scott Clifford Evans

Camera | Simon Brugner, Dominick Spritzendorfer
Sound | Natascha Muhic
Set design | Gelatin, Anna Jermolaewa, Markus Krottendorfer
Makeup | Kris Lemsalu Malone, Marlene Nowotny
Effects | Sophie Csenar
Clapper | Linda Reif
Production Assistant | Helmut Heiss
Lights | Markus Krottendorfer
Wardrobe | Wiener Times (Susie Schneider & Johannes Schweiger)
Score | Philipp Quehenberger

Scott Clifford Evans is present for Q&A.

A cult revealed! Slumber party at the gates of hell! Spaghetti torture! Tiger deathmatch! A diabolical ritual interrupted! Chainsaw revenge! The loss of a friend…or two. This penultimate episode has it all. The secret cult that has called the kino home for years is preparing to finally complete their ultimate ritual: to bring the ancient Babylonian demon Moloch back to earth, merging Mother (Florian Reither) and her son Rudi (David Moises) into its rejuvenated, young avatar (Ingrid Stiegelbauer). But first the High Priestess (Kris Lemsalu Malone) and her fellow cult members (Philipp Fleischmann, Anna Jermolaewa, Michele Pagel, Maria Ziegelböck) need to sacrifice a virgin. And what luck! Salvatore (Salvatore Viviano) falls into this unholy “chapel” at just the right time. Can The Smell (Scott Clifford Evans) rescue him in time? Will the cult complete the ritual, ushering Moloch and millennia of darkness to the world? Ezma (Jaschka Lämmert) may have something to say about that. Sometimes revenge is a dish best served cold…with spaghetti Bolognese as the primi.

The set for this episode consisted of three artistic elements: a backdrop (the “Gate of Hell”) from Markus Krottendorfer’s series “Mountains of Kong,” a “nude tree” by Gelatin (with guests), and two brass beds. The cult makeup concept is by Kris Lemsalu Malone. The cult robes were designed and produced by Wiener Times (Susie Schneider & Johannes Schweiger). Altar-Knife War-Witch was filmed in Gelatin's studio in December 2019.

What is Murderkino?
Disgusting, shocking, absurd! Welcome to the oldest Kino in Vienna: Murderkino. A sick and twisted family of the old guard runs this theater of fears with one goal in mind: cruel and sadistic murder. You will witness scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Toilets of terror, cannibalism, popcorn, ectoplasm, evil Babylonian gods, cult sleepover parties, and a Leberkäsesemmel from hell! You can't run. You can't hide. You can't escape. You can only wait...in the night...in the dark...where no one can hear you scream.
Murderkino (2019–) is a "no budget" art/trash/horror film and installation project. Each segment/episode can be taken alone or combined with others for a weird revue that tells a convoluted Viennese story filled with slapstick, excess, the occult and macabre. Scott Clifford Evans oversees the project, but it is only possible through collaboration with many hardworking, Vienna-based artists and one Estonian. Each segment gathers a wide variety of talents and materials to culminate in video, installation, and photographic work that is "trash" in both aesthetic and content. Analyzing the horror genre by playing with horror film tropes through story, performance, and camera, Murderkino serves as an evolution of the art-trash film, a Gesamtkunstwerk par grotesque.

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