Pop’s Cult Theater: Punk Shlock Double Feature

Pop’s Cult Theater is here! Every month, we’ll be curating a double feature featuring flicks that are a little bit weird, a little bit different, and a whole lot of kickass.

For our May installment, we’re looking bringing in a duo of punk-as-hell flicks from director Jon Moritsugu – MOD FUCK EXPLOSION (1994) and MY DEGENERATION (1989)

Our first film, MY DEGENERATION, is about teen love. It’s about teen dreams. It’s about digging your own grave with an electric guitar. An all-girl rock band sells out and becomes commercial pawns for the American beef industry in legendary underground filmmaker Jon Moritsugu’s debut feature. A film so charged with punk rock energy that critic Roger Ebert had to walk out on it after seven minutes at its Sundance premiere, MY DEGENERATION flows like a drunken semiotics presentation through a grainy sewer of filth and noise.

In MOD FUCK EXPLOSION A fucked-up teen girl (Amy Davis) looks for love and a leather jacket to call her own on the night of the big rumble between the mods and a gang of Japanese bikers in this ultra-90s rager from Moritsugu. Featuring a killer soundtrack by Unrest and Karyo Tengoku, cameos from queer icons Mx. Justin Vivian Bond and Leigh Crow, and a climax involving 800 lbs. of rotting beef, MOD FUCK EXPLOSION is a potent blast of teenage hate and rebellion.