Trashfest presents: Showgirls

POSTED - May 08

In the history of movies so shockingly bad you can’t help loving them, Showgirls is right up there at the very top. With its terrible script, gratuitous nudity, ridiculous characters and awful acting, it should be virtually unwatchable – but perhaps because of all of the above, Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 cult classic is an utterly enjoyable, totally hilarious romp through the back-stabbing backstage of Las Vegas’s show circuit.

Elizabeth Berkley transferred her considerably crappy dramatic skills from TV’s Saved By The Bell to play Nomi Malone, a wannabe topless dancer who is inexplicably irresistible to everyone that happens upon her – and lots of people happen upon her – when she arrives all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in Vegas.

Among those entranced by her personality-free personality is Queen Bee dancer at Stardust, Crystal Connors (Gina Gershon), who becomes dangerously obsessed by the increasingly sulky Nomi, who in turn uses her ‘charisma’ to first become Cristal’s understudy and then her replacement, with some very badly scripted bitching along the way. Kyle MacLachlan (from TV’s Desperate Housewives and Twin Peaks) is also roped in to this cinematic mess, most memorably in the worst sex scene ever filmed.

Sit back and enjoy the most deliciously awful movie ever made in a laugh-out-loud group experience like no other at the Trashfest screening of Showgirls. Banned by the Irish censor when first released, Showgirls finally arrives on the big screen in all its mind-bendingly vulgar, outrageous, bizarre, hilarious and depraved glory. This just might be the movie experience that makes your year!

ABOUT TRASHFEST
Lovers of all things trash and the art it inspires, join us for an exploration into the divinely terrible but wonderfully entertaining world of trash cinema.
Trashfest is a celebration of alternative culture, taking its cue from a genre of film that can be termed as ‘trash’. The festival will feature films we love to hate, hate to love, and some the most ardent fans of trash can’t get enough of. Trashfest aims to introduce Dublin audiences to an ‘underground’ experience of film, television and art,that is rooted in the low-budget foundations of trash movies. Trashfest will merge the multi-platform, multi-media experience of underground trash art, culture and movies together for a weekend long party. Trashfest will run from July 12th to 15th 2012 with once off events in the run up to give you a taste of what you’re in for.

Showgirls
May 25th 8pm
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