Insulted

30. April, 2009 | by John Moroney

Letter to the Editor of The Stranger (Seattle)

EDITOR: I recently read your description for the HUMP! film entitled Flesh! [“HUMP! 4: The Films,” Oct 23], in which you disparaged SIFF and STIFF as “maybe” showing “at least one zombie fuckfest.” While I can’t officially speak for SIFF, I can say without a doubt that we at STIFF were quite insulted. I’ll have you know that we work very hard to achieve a certain measure of quality in our programming, and I can only tell you that we show a very large percentage of the zombie fuckfests that are submitted to us. There have actually been many times that I’ve thought, “If only I could assemble an entire film festival dedicated to undead intercourse, I would die a happy man,” but the truth of the matter is that those films are somewhat rare.

Last year, the only film to even be submitted was the HUMP! favorite Zombie Tapioca Lovefest, so we had to settle for augmenting with two movies heavy on necrophilia… I would also like to point out that when the cook from the Rendezvous served actual tapioca pudding during the screening, it was all eaten. Not one single member of the audience threw pudding at the screen. Why? Because unlike those hooligans who show up at SIFF screenings, our audience is fucking civilized.

Clint Berquist, Director, STIFF