The event will be held at Smodcastle Cinemas in New Jersey on August 30th
Smodcastle Cinemas, owned by filmmaker and pop culture icon Kevin Smith, will host a special screening of This is Gwar on Saturday, August 30th in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. This definitive documentary dives into the wild and blood-soaked history of Gwar, the most outrageous band in shock rock, chronicling their rise from underground misfits to intergalactic legends.
Following the screening, Kevin Smith will host an exclusive Q&A with members of Gwar, offering fans an inside look at the band’s decades-long reign of chaos. For the ultimate experience, attendees will also have the chance to participate in a photo op with Kevin and Gwar members in their blood-soaked battle armor.
“As a relic of the 90’s, I’m happy to help celebrate these bloody legends who’ve been enthralling audiences since the 80s!” Smith says. “Gwar has not only stayed true to their gruesome roots all this time, they’ve also carved out their place in industry history.”
“You ridiculous humans could learn a few things from Kevin Smith,” adds Gwar’s The Berserker Blöthar aka Dr. Michael Bishop, Ph.D. “If you’ve seen any of his movies, you probably already have. He wrote the 37 dicks scene (genius), he cast Alanis Morissette as God, he’s the King of Jorts, and he is GWAR approved. We are stoked to get stoned and hang out at his theater drinking watered-down soda and answering the questions of our pimply-faced legion of fans.”
The screen and Q&A are $25 each while the addition of photo ops with Smith and the band are $100.
Gwar embarks on its 40th Anniversary Tour this year with Toxic Holocaust, AEther Realm, Tracheotomy, Static-X, Dope, A Killers Confession, Eyehategod on select dates. Dates start on May 11th at Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio, and run through October 2nd at Aftershock in Sacramento, California.
The story of Gwar is carved across the history of this hopeless planet, but Gwar themselves are not of this world. Their story begins far past Uranus, in the deepest reaches of space, where the beings known as Gwar were warriors in the Scumdogs of the Universe, an elite fighting force in the army of the Master of All Reality. But Gwar proved too reckless and powerful, and after a series of tragic but hilarious blunders, they were banished to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, with orders to conquer an insignificant backwater prehistoric mudball known as the planet Earth. Once here, Gwar, the original Ancient Aliens, shaped the face of the globe, wiping out the dinosaurs, and mating with apes to create the human race. Having accidentally given rise to all human history, the Master of All Reality froze them in Antarctic ice where they could do no more harm. It was there they were discovered by a shady entrepreneur known as Sleazy P Martini, who sat the band down in front of professional wrestling, late-night horror movies, heavy metal music, and a steady diet of crack cocaine until Gwar became the cultural force they are today!
