The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man from Slipper Room Players on Vimeo.
Tonight we combine the 2016 PopCult Gift Guide with Sunday Evening Video and bring you a trailer for a movie that you can purchase through Vimeo, The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man . It’s perfect for the fan of the films of David Lynch and Andy Warhol, or the neo-burlesque aficianado on your shopping list.
This dark, storybook fairy tale is a genre-defying mixture of comedy, horror, sex, fantasy, freak show, dream and cartoon. On top of that, it’s loaded with underground (and some mainstream) marquee names: Mat Fraser (from American Horror Story: Freak Show and ShockaCon), his wife, the burlesque performer and choreographer Julie Atlas Muz, Slipper Room founder and Artistic Director James Habacker (who wrote and directed), Mistress of the New York School of Burlesque, Jo Weldon, and an impressive list of downtown New York performers, musicians, and artists such as Stormy Leather, Joe Coleman, and Bunny Love.
The film is an ensemble piece that showcases much of the talent that lives and works within the orbit of The Slipper Room, the New York City Variety theatre that is the birthplace of neo-burlesque. The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man has the delirious and free attitude that has been the linchpin in New York underground film since the sixties – sophisticated, daring, dirty, heroic, playful, defying category and the expectations of the “market,” essentially giving the finger to anyone who thinks it’s “weird,”
You can download or watch the movie at Vimeo, which makes it sort of hard to wrap, but the fan of oddball cinema on your shopping list won’t care. Check out the movie’s website for more details.
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