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VIDAR THE VAMPIRE

February 4, 2018 @ 9:15 pm

TICKETS for VIDAR THE VAMPIRE at Roxie Sun Feb 4, 915p HERE

 

Directors Thomas Aske Berg & Fredrik Waldeland – 2017 Norway 83 min Northern California Premiere – Horror Comedy

 

Hailing from the land of Black Metal and burning churches comes a story of a farmer who accepts the blood of Jesus only to become a whoremongering vampire. With co-director/co-writer Berg stumbling through his new existence as the Vidar, this surprisingly sacrilegious and heartfelt film remakes the Vampire genre anew.

At its heart Vidar the Vampire is a story about determining and accepting your place in life. Vidar’s ‘conversion’ becomes a metaphor for his alienation. Touching scenes of isolation and self-reflection breakup silly scenes of Vidar’s hopeless attempts to find love and some really gross-out horror.

Unlike many other Norwegian films, Vidar was shot without any support from the Norwegian Film Institute. Self-financed at around $60,000 US, the film crew had to do everything themselves, forfeiting salaries and doing odd end jobs between shoots to stay afloat in ‘real life’. They built own set pieces, provided and managed costumes, did extensive location scouting, managed locations, set-designed locations before shoots, and broke them down after (among other things). The ‘VampyrVidar’-cast consists of 25% professional actors and the rest are either amateurs to first-timers.

–Bears Fonte

 

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Details

Date:
February 4, 2018
Time:
9:15 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/purchase/3968?siteToken=4m48btf3yavn7xjk5yxk6nc40c

Venue

Roxie Theater
3117 16th St
San Francisco, CA 94103