[Preview] Bye Bye Bad Taste Fest Comes To Portland with an Incredible Line-Up of Genre Films
Are you around the Portland, Oregon area this weekend? Then we have the exact event that you’re going to want to attend! Bye Bye Bad Taste Fest is the latest film festival coming to the screens near you, and it’s going to be a drive-in style event so grab your keys, your popcorn and settle in for an evening of fun from the comfort of your vehicle!
Bye Bye Bad Taste Fest is an independent film festival highlighting filmmakers from local areas and also from further afield. The festival is running on Saturday May 29th from 8pm onwards and has an absolutely stellar line-up of genre films which will be screened. There will be a VHS swap before the show begins and a screening of Rocko Zevenbergen’s I Need You Dead! happening afterwards.
Bad Taste Video are a production company from Portland, but to celebrate their big move to New York City they are hosting a one-off film festival, providing some light relief to the local film fans.
Grab your tickets here!
Schedule:
8:00pm: Doors + VHS Swap
9:30pm: Festival Program
In order from Start to Finish
Apparitionata by Dead Coyote
Family Video Tribute by Four Donut Productions
The Singing Cryptid Clock by Austin Coburn
Le Meow Mort by Graceann Dorse
TEETH.V by Dillon Graves
Cold by Gayle Yeier
Validation by Monty Wolfe
Bird of Greed by Cosmo Spada
Zombie Walk by Rollyn Stafford
Meat is Murder! by James Boylan
WEREDEER! by Ben Johnson
Commercial Bake by Austin Coburn
The Bathtub by Dylan Mars Greenberg
The Legend of Rasputin by Jamie Shannon
Midnight: I Need You Dead!
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