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Emerging Filmmakers Showcase: ‘BATSH*T’
October 30 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
The Lindsay is celebrating Halloween this year with an Emerging Filmmakers Showcase that’s chock-full of locally made frights and delights.
Batsh*t is an indie horror-comedy that was inspired by genre favorites like Evil Dead, Beetlejuice and A Nightmare on Elm Street. It follows an alcoholic who accidentally takes a hallucinatory drug and enters a nightmarish new world.
The Lindsay will be showing Batsh*t on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. This screening will be immediately followed by an in-person Q&A with director and co-writer Todd Wolfson, star Jerry Pietrala and editor Karl O’Janpa. The event is free, and The Lindsay recommends that all attendees use the form below to RSVP in advance due to space limitations.
Wolfson, a Pittsburgh native and founder of production company Just Buried Entertainment, is making his feature directorial debut with Batsh*t. The film stars Pietrala as Felix Darby, a lost soul on a mind-altering journey. Along the way, Felix encounters oddities such as a friend talking in tongues, his roommate turning into an 8-bit character, a talking killer cherry pie, being haunted by his own ghost and much more.
Wolfson has been working on BatSh*t since 2018. He co-wrote the script with David Ogrodowski, a veteran local filmmaker and actor who also appears in the film. The largely Western Pennsylvania-based cast also includes Tiffany Kemp, Mikhail Tot, Edward Pfeifer, Nexus Lyons, Samantha Ainsworth, Brian Ceponis and Ben Dietels.
Batsh*t is a mostly live-action film that also contains wild sequences involving both 2D and 3D animation, stop-motion effects, claymation—and even puppets! Be prepared for what Wolfson describes as a “very zany and original” cinematic experience.
“This is a very important film to me,” Wolfson says. “It’s jam-packed with a lot of Pittsburgh’s most talented actors. Batsh*t is a wildly entertaining dark comedy with a fantasy twist, and it’s extremely independent to the core!”
