FILMUSIK: Gamera vs. Guiron
Nov. 4th, 6th, 11th and 13th, 7pm
Hollywood Theatre – $10 Students/Seniors $8

This fall, something big is coming to the Hollywood Theatre.  In the pit under the screen, teams of voice actors, sound effects artists and musicians go to work in a stunning performance of film, music, noise and exceptionally large monsters.  Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) is an epic Japanese monster film starring 3 of the biggest baddest fire-breathing condo-crushing “kaiju” of the day.  On a distant alien planet, 2 brain eating space babes protect their domain from intruders with the fearsome Guiron with a knife for a head and the ability to shook shuriken out of his nostrils.  When two boys from the Earth end up in the clutches of the evil women, Gamera, jet powered mega-turtle, swoops in to do battle in a showdown of Scarface proportions.  Veteran sound effects artists Pat Janowski (livewire!) and David Ian (unchained productions) rip, shake and smash their way through the film with their onstage arsenal of noise.  The Willamette Radio Workshop dubs the film live into English (yes even the monsters) and our orchestra performs an originally composed soundtrack. Filmusik: Gamera vs. Guiron is a live film performance not to miss,  A soundscape of local portland talent that is larger than big, bigger than huge, and may even be ginormous!

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Three children, two boys and a girl, stumble upon a flying saucer. The boys both step in without hesitating, and are whisked away to a planet in Earth’s orbit but on the exact opposite side of the Sun. Inhabiting this planet are two women with Midwestern accents, who hypnotize the children to find they fantasize about milk, donuts, and Gamera, our favorite hero turtle. The women simply want to eat their brains.

Still frame from Gamera vs. Guiron (theme song)