‘Chillerama’ LA premiere: blood-soaked jokes, gay werewolves and celebrity-packed cemetery.

On September 15th, over-the-top drive-in-inspired horror comedy anthology ‘Chillerama’ premiered with a bang at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA.‘Chillerama’ is a brainchild of directors Tim Sullivan and Adam Rifkin (both previously worked on 1999’s ‘Detroit Rock City’), who teamed up with younger horror stars Adam Green (‘Frozen’, ‘Hatchet’) and Joe Lynch (‘Wrong Turn 2’).

The anticipation of something big was in the air the whole night, which is understandable: ‘Chillerama’ is a very special project both for its filmmakers and its audience. First of all, it’s an indie production with a unique business model: LA premiere marked the beginning of the roadshow which will see ‘Chillerama’ touring all around the States (and several lucky European countries), while also hitting VOD in a bit. Blu-Ray/DVD comes out on November, 29th.

More importantly ‘Chillerama’ is the first mainstream horror movie anthology with an all-gay segment. Queer justice comes from Tim Sullivan, which is known as an openly gay director of ‘2001 Maniacs’ and spooky ‘Driftwood’. Sullivan’s segment is called ‘I Was A Teenage Werebear’, and it blends 60s beach movies, ‘High School Musical’, ‘Grease’, werewolves horror movies and queer ‘bears’ subculture. It is also a musical, filled with instant classics such as ‘Love Bit Me On The Ass’ and ‘Do The Werebear (And Let The Werebear Do You)’. The lead part of a teenager struggling with his sexual identity and animal(istic) side was played by Sean Paul Lockhart, better known as ex-pornstar Brent Corrigan. He recently starred in gay drama ‘Judas Kiss’. ‘I Was a Teenage Werebear’ sees Sean falling for the school’s new bad boy with a dark (and hairy) secret, played by delicious newcomer Anton Troy, who has ‘James Dean 2.0’ written all over him.

‘It feels like I’m in a rockband getting ready to kick off our nationwide tour’, said excited Tim Sullivan moments before joining his co-directors to give a welcoming speech to over 2,500 guests. And the audience did act as if it was a KISS concert (Tim’s favorites): half of the jokes were drowned in deafening ovations, laughs and ‘This is so wrong!’.

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The event attracted countless horror icons such as Kane Hodder and Derek Mears (both played Jason Voorhees), Tom Holland (director of 80’s classics ‘Fright Night’ and ‘Child’s Play’), Todd Farmer (writer and one on of the stars of ‘Drive Angry 3D’), Lin Shaye (veteran actress, most recently spotted in ‘Insidious’) and lots of other genre legends.Seth Green, Amber Benson (our beloved lesbian witch Tara from ‘Buffy’), Emma Bell (fresh out of the ‘Final Destination 5’ bloodbath), Tony ‘Candyman’ Todd, Crista Campbell (‘Drive Angry’) and Belgian gay icon Timo Descamps (Sean Paul Lockhart’s co-star in ‘Judas Kiss’) were also spotted in the audience. And some celebrity gossip for you: blonde bombshell Aly Michalka rested her head on Joel David Moore’s shoulder throughout the entire movie (Moore portrays one of the most hilarious Hitler interpretations in cinema history in Adam Green’s ‘The Diary of Anne Frankenstein’ segment). The ‘best dress’ award goes to other ‘Anne Frankenstein’ star Kristina Klebe, who rocked the night in what she herself described as a ‘crazy blue and green vintage 60s dress’. Kristina plays Hitler’s sexy and flirty assistant.

One of the guests also told me Andy Dick was going crazy over ‘Werebears’.

You can watch Anton in Chillerama on VOD (Video on Demand) & Movies on Demand right now (USA) through the end of the month (Check your local listings) or own it on Blu-ray / DVD November 29th! Pre-order it now on Amazon at the special introductory price of  $15.99! (Regular $29.97)