Sundance Film Festival 2006

Park City at Midnight offers eight out-of-competition films after-hours that are "likely to amuse, surprise, or shock the bleary-eyed viewer and offer a lively last stop in the nightly film-going circuit".

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The Descent The Descent
The Descent and The Foot Fist Way
American Hardcore (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Paul Rachman; Writer: Steven Blush; Stars: Lucky Lehrer, Vic Bondi, Joe Keithley, Keith Morris, Angie Sciarappa, Nancy Barile, Mike Watt, David Markey, Jordan Schwartz, Howard Saunders, Perry Webb)
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986.
World Premiere
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Adam Yauch; Stars: Mike D, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, Mix Master Mike, Doug E Fresh, Money Mark, Darryl McDaniels, Alfredo Ortiz, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor)
On October 9, 2004, the Beastie Boys handed out 50 HI 8 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York's Madison Square Garden. This film is the result.
World Premiere
The Descent (Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Neil Marshall; Writer: Neil Marshall; Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Molly Kayll, Alex Reid, Craig Conway, Saskia Mulder, Oliver Milburn, Stephen Lamb)
Six girls on a caving expedition find they are not alone in the dark.
North American Premiere
Destricted (Country: UK, US; Year: 2006; Director: Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood)
Explicit seven-part portmanteau feature examining pornography, sexuality and art.
World Premiere
The Foot Fist Way (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Jody Hill; Writer: Ben Best, Jody Hill, Danny R. McBride; Stars: Danny R. McBride, Ben Best, Mary Jane Bostic, Ken Aguilar, Tyler Baum, Sean Baxter, Bruce Cameron, Erin Fisher, Libertad Green, Juan-Carlos Guzman, Jody Hill), Official Site, Trailer
Comedy kicks in the life of a tae kwon do teacher.
World Premiere
Gruesome Gruesome
Gruesome and Destricted
Gruesome (Salvage) (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Jeff Crook, Josh Crook; Writer: Jeff Crook, Josh Crook; Stars: Lauren Currie Lewis, Cody Darbe, Chris Ferry, Maureen Olander, John P Miller, Jessica DeLong, Sam Dahler, John Briley, Joseph M. Colombo, Adam Morris, Maureen Wagner)
An infernal Groundhog Day as a student seems destined to relive the day of her murder.
World Premiere
Moonshine (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Roger Ingram; Writer: Roger Ingraham, Lori Isbell Salvage; Stars: Brian Greer, Sarah Ingraham, Gareth Duvall, Ginny Fitzpatrick, Carol Neiman, Eric Almassy, Theodore Bouloukos, Raymond Turturro, Thea McCartan, Jaye Maynard, Zachary Sandler)
At night in a working-class Connecticut town, beneath an incandescent bulb in the cellar, a young convenience store clerk’s monotonous life is about to end. From in the shadows an unseen man, a vampire, waits, moving slowly closer.
World Premiere
Subject Two (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Philip Chidel; Writer: Philip Chidel; Stars: Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton, Courtney Mace, Jürgen Jones, Thomas Buesch, Philip Chidel)
A troubled medical student volunteers for resurrection experiments - and is killed over and over again by a reclusive doctor intent on reinventing life.
World Premiere
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