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We had a great turnout for the midnight screenings. The audience had a great time. Seeing it with a large group of people is pure joy for us. Some people have seen it more than once and it is great when they shout out favorite lines. Beautiful waves of laughter and chuckles all throughout the movie. Plus, we just signed the long form contract with our sales agent so this weekend was a real celebration.

Scream of the Bikini LA Screening

Posted by: TheDude  MOVIES ONLINE

Greetings gang. Sorry for the geographically localized post, but I wanted to let viewers in the greater Los Angeles area know of a few screenings of this ridiculous-hilarious-sexy-crazy movie I saw called Scream of the Bikini that will be playing in town this weekend!

A lost classic from South American director Fernando Fernandez, Scream of the Bikini is an action spy thriller thought lost to the ages in the 1960s, recently discovered, then translated into English by Germans where something obviously got lost in the translation. (Sort of like what they did with the Metropolis restoration, but with more bikinis and sexy intrigue). The film focuses on the adventures of supermodels by day/sexy secret agents by night Jasmine Orosco and Paola Apanapel who engage in intrigue, espionage, adventure, excitement, vespas, and pillow fights! Pajama-clad pillow fights! Between two gorgeous girls!

I feel the need to repeat the Hot Lady Pillow Fight Action, as that's pretty much all I ever want out of a movie.

Scream of the Bikini is winner of Best Comedy at the ThrillSpy International Film Festival AND 3 Maverick Movie Awards including Best Director. Scream of the Bikini is a hilarious bastard offspring of Barberella, Modesty Blaise, James Bond, and What's Up Tiger Lily.

The movie will be showing this Friday and Saturday, February 19th and 20th at the Laemmle Sunset 5 at midnight! It's a great flick to see with an audience (and with a little buzz, so feel free to have a cocktail beforehand). So if you're around and want to see the aforementioned hot chicks with pillows and vespas, please check it out and help support some indie cinema!

J.B. reviews Bikini

Midnight Movie: Scream of the Bikini

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The mid 1960’s were a golden age for Columbian-German co-productions, but the magnum opus of Fernando Fernandez, the era’s visionary auteur, remained lost to posterity until director Kiff Scholl discovered a rare surviving print. Yeah, right. It is a good back story though. For those familiar with the groovy multinational spy films of the 1960’s, Scholl’sScream of the Bikini (trailer here) is a knowingly affectionate send-up, which is booked for special midnight (technically 11:55) screenings at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood this Friday and Saturday.

Bridgit and Sophia are supermodels by day and superspy-bounty hunters by night (or perhaps vice versa). They have just averted a terrorist attack on an airliner, but Sophia broke a heel in the process. At least they beat their tuxedo-clad rival Humberto to the kill (and the twenty grand). However, the dead man will keep popping up, looking for a microchip or something. Needless to say, Bikini is hardly the sort of film to get hung up on plot, though there is plenty of it, including mysterious death cults, mind-controlling accessories, and plenty of suggestive flirtation. Rather, it is style all the way for its glamorous protagonists.

Eurospy enthusiasts will appreciate Bikini’s vibe, faultlessly recreating the retro color palette and weirdly disembodied dialogue that marked the swinging sixties cult film subgenre. Bikini also features a surprisingly catchy soundtrack that is true to the period and frankly much better than it has to be. And you have to love a trippy musical interlude that includes mimes at play in an open field, right?

It seems like the entire cast also doubled as producers of Bikini, suggesting the film started as an idea concocted by a group of friends over drinks. However, as Latin American actresses Jasmine Orozco and Paola Apanapal playing Bridgit and Sophia, Kelsey Weeden and Rebecca Larsen actually pull off a nice acting feat, keeping their characters cute and likable despite their self-centered cluelessness. Co-producer, editor, and cinematographer Darrett Sanders exudes the perfect hammy flair as Gregorio Peck as man-of-the-world Humberto, while nicely deadpanning some of the film’s funniest lines. Bikini also won the Maverick Movie Awards’ “The Precious” prize for random hilarity in recognition of Walter “Ensign Chekhov” Koenig’s non sequitur cameo, and rightly so.

Saucy yet sweet-tempered (just like its heroines), Bikini is a lot of fun. Deliberately cheesy, but not annoyingly so, it is perfectly suited for midnight screenings at festivals, art-houses, and college campuses. Recommended for MST3K fans (think of the bots skewering Neil Connery in the knock-off Operation Double 007), it plays at the Laemmle Sunset 5 this Friday (2/19) and Saturday (2/20).

FILM JUNK

Lot of chatter on the web regarding our movie.
Here is another post regarding the trailer.
http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/02/16/scream-of-the-bikini-trailer-another-retro-spoof/

With Black Dynamite hitting stores today, here’s a heads up on a potential distant cousin, just in case you’re in need of a second movie for a double bill. Scream of the Bikini is a similar parody of cult cinema, also trying to pass itself off as the genuine article, but instead of tackling ’70s blaxploitation it pays tribute to ’60s spy movies. It claims to be a poorly dubbed, long lost film from acclaimed South American director Fernando Fernandez, but it’s actually the directorial debut of a guy named Kiff Scholl.

I haven’t heard anything else about the movie, but apparently it played in some festivals and will get a limited theatrical run in Los Angeles this weekend. To be honest, the trailer looks a bit iffy, and nowhere near as good as Black Dynamite although I’d still be willing to give it a chance. It’s a bit of a reminder that these kinds of parodies are not necessarily as easy to pull off as they might seem. For every Black Dynamite out there, there’s also a Lost Skeleton of Cadavra to go with it. Check out the trailer for Scream of the Bikini after the jump and see what you think. For more info visit the official website.

Bikini in French online magazine

English translation

What a strange project this "scream of the bikini" supposedly "suggested by Bogota's chamber of commerce". The movie is presented as an action and spy story made in the 60s in Latin America. In this movie, the audience is invited to follow Bridget and Sophia on different adventures. Bridget and Sophia, two top models, are also bounty hunters and embody the last hopes of humanity against the plot of a madman hungry for world power. Interesting, isn't it? Except that the movie is recent, finished last year by a so-called Kiff Scholl, who appeared on the series called TVReno 911. Cheaper than our typical French series, this parody faithful to the spy movies of the 60s will in all likelihood give us a OSS 117 feeling.

Bikini on IFC Spring Indie Film Preview