TALKING TRASH WITH
CHRISTY SAVAGE
RETROCRUSH INTERVIEWS CHRISTY SAVAGE, ARTIST
AND
CO-CREATOR OF SACRAMENTO'S OWN TRASH FILM ORGY
Talented artists Christy and Darin Savage have
created California's best Midnight Movie Film Festival: Trash Film
Orgy. On the eve of the festival's sixth anniversary Christy took
some time to speak with us.
We’re talking to Christy
Savage of Trash, Film, Orgy Fame.
 That’s
right this will be my first un-drunk retroCRUSH interview!
I loved you on the
Facts of Life.
Can I cuss during this
interview?
You can say anything you want.
Awesome!
What’s your favorite cuss word?
I kind of like the
word Poontang. Does that count?
Have you ever eaten Poontang?
Can I say no comment
on that one? Isn’t this about my movie show?
Tell us more about Trash Film Orgy.
We are a very unusual
and exciting midnight movie film festival. We do six weeks every
summer. We do Halloween and occasional other shows in Sacramento at
the historic and beautiful Crest Theater which has been there for a
bazillion years.
It’s Sacramento’s last
picture palace so we’re lucky to be in there. We show fabulous,
giant 35mm movies in a wonderful atmosphere. We encourage heckling
and audience participation. We have a bar, the retroTRASH lounge. We
have fun games in the lobby and all kinds of weirdness.
I hear it’s easy for people to smoke weed at the
Trash Film Orgy.
I don’t know what
you’re talking about, but I know cigarettes are illegal to smoke
inside the theaters.
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen at TFO? Have
you ever seen people having sex in the audience?
I haven’t seen it.
But I felt it squirt on my neck and I’ve sat in it.
Ewww!
Ouchy the
S&M clown was pretty weird. He was running around in his
G-string and clown face whipping everybody.
We always have some of the greatest movies playing
at the Trash Film Orgy.
Even though people
have the misconception that we show bad movies at TFO that’s not
true, we show the best of the underground, unusual, and
non-mainstream movies.
In the past we’ve shown films like: 2000 Maniacs,
Re-Animator, Rock N Roll High School, Return of the Living Dead,
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, and Ass Busters 4.
We didn’t show that.
You also played Frankenhooker.
With 1987
Penthouse Pet of the Year Patty Mullen, a Frank Henenlotter
film. That's going to be a fun one. It’s supposed to be a brand new
print as well.
You’ve got Beaver
shots of her on the
www.trashfilmorgy.com website.
Yeah, you can click on
the galleries and find her. You can even get to her from the front
page.
TFO is full of Beaver.
 It’s
true!
Once we had the naughty nightie pillow fight on
stage.
We’ll be doing that
again this year at Trash Till Dawn.
Last time there was
a girl wrestling on stage with a ton of other girls and her panties
came off. Lets just say pink is the new black.
You’re killing me.
I thought someone was shucking clams on stage before
I realized what was going on. What other movies are playing this
year?
For our second week we
have super fast stylish Japanese action Versus. It’s the
Yakuza vs. Zombie classic. It’s not really old enough to be a
classic, but it’s still hella good. It’s our second subtitled movie
that we’ve ever shown.
So for people that can’t read it’s still pretty easy
to follow.
It’s all fast action.
If you can’t read you can still figure out what’s going on. With the
undead and them trying to eat people. There are guys with lots of
guns trying to shoot them.
What if you’re blind and deaf?
 If
you’re blind and deaf you might want to pick up another hobby. I’m
guessing. Not that I’m anti-blind and deaf. Maybe going to midnight
movies isn’t the best thing for you.
On Week 3 what do we have at TFO?
Week 3 is going to be
absolutely super duper fun. We have 1972 roller derby exploitation
classic Unholy Rollers starring the late and sexy Claudia
Jennings. Not only will we be showing that fabulous movie which has
been out of print for quite awhile so a lot of people have not had
the chance to see it, but we will also be featuring Sacramento’s Sac
City Rollers live and in attendance. We will be doing roller derby.
I’m so sick of those Sac City Rollers from San
Francisco.
Those are fakers. You
want the real Sac City Rollers from Sacramento.
So, this is every Saturday starting June 24th
at midnight in Sacramento?
We will open the doors
at 11:30 so you can get drinks in the retroTRASH lounge and play fun
games. This weekend you can earn punk points by doing cool things
like playing name that Punk Rock tune, we’re doing a Punk Rock quiz.
You can get bonus points if you get a Mohawk.
 So
if I say, "Please give me a Mohawk." you’ll do it.
Shit yeah!
Do you do pube Mohawks?
Absolutely not. We're
doing regular Mohawks on your head.
So this Trash Lounge you’re talking about is usually
run by retroCRUSH right?
This year we’ll be
featuring the porn shack.
Aren’t you going to just spread your legs and we’re
going to look at the porn shack there?
It’s not that kind of
porn shack.
I thought Shaquille O'Neal was going to be there
with some Playboys.
Porn Shaq?…you’re
terrible.
Week 4 is what?
Week 4 is Meet the
Feebles which is Peter Jackson’s crazy puppet musical and it
will be a sing-along show.
For week 5 what do you have?
Frankenhooker which is
Frank Henenlotter’s classic tale of sluts and bolts.
Week 6 is the final night of the series?
That is Trash till
dawn. We’ve got a couple of awesome features, a bunch of shorts, and
some cartoons. All kinds of fun stuff for our short attention span
fans.
Is this the night that the naughty nightie pillow
fight is going to be?
 Yes,
naughty nightie pillow fight.
When we had the naughty nightie pillow fight it was
almost the best night of my life. Next to my kids being born and
getting married.
That’s a close runner
up right?
Which one of the Villains from the Trash, Film, Orgy
would you have sex with?
Z-man from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is sort of fun
in a weird sort of way.
If you like chicks with dicks. I choose the lovely
Connie Mason from 2000 Maniacs or Shanty Tramp, but she’s used to
being with big black bucks.
We had all the Ramones
in
Rock and Roll High School and there’s that.
You want to have a whole gang bang with them?
Yeah, sure The Ramones
gang bang. That’s the way to go. I think three of them are dead so
it might not work out so well. This is fantasy right?
I’d like to rub my face in
Tura Satana’s breasts.
I’d be into that one.
You get all those Pussycat girls yeah.
 Shatner
in Impulse was pretty hot.
Oh yeah, I watched
that the other day.
You like the movie
Parents. Who was the creepiest parent you remember when
growing up?
That one’s easy. This
guy I knew from when I was in high school. We’d go to his house and
hang out. His dad would try and make passes at me. It was really
creepy. He grabbed my butt one day.
Did you see what you were wearing? You were
practically asking for it.
I didn’t have any of
that action. I wasn’t into it. The son was okay, but the dad, that
was creepy.
When did you have your first Orgasm?
I think I was about
three?
That was one hot couch. A lot of women aren’t
orgasmic right away.
I’m good that way.
Don’t worry. Thanks for asking though.
I enjoyed the jets in the swimming pool too.
That was you? Fuck.
Were you a scaredy cat as a kid?
I was scared of
heights as a kid. I wouldn’t go on roller coasters and stuff. I
didn’t do them until I started doing a bunch of drugs and then I
decided that was fun.
Who would you rather have sex with right now:
Vincent Price or Jan Michael Vincent?
 They’re
both dead aren’t they?
Jan Michael Vincent is still alive.
Isn’t he mad? Didn’t
he have an accident and it made him turn surly.
Have you ever had gay man sex? Sex you would
consider gay?
Hasn’t everybody?
Did you always doodle when you were a kid?
Did I always do what
as a kid?
Did you always diddle as a kid?
Yes and yes.
You were a diddling doodler.
Shit yeah!
You’re a kick ass artist. A lot of your art is
erotic.
I’m pretty into
drawing hot, sexy girls. With them being threatened in perilous
situations whether it being attacked by monsters, madmen, or what
have you.
Do you like that feeling of being terrified?
I’m not sure if I just
find danger titillating.
Trash Film Orgy is a
great time every Summer in Sacramento, and 2010 marks the 10th
Anniversary. Go to
www.trashfilmorgy.com to find out more.
All of the artwork you see in this article was created by Christy
and Darin. To see more of their artwork or to hire them for a custom
design project go to
www.screamingcatfish.com.
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