33rd Sci-Fi Film Festival Lineup Announced

33rd Annual Sci-Fi Film Festival
Sunday, February 17, noon, until Monday, February 18, noon
Somerville Theatre
$55 in advance / $65 day of show
More info on the festival

The annual Sci-Fi Film Festival will kick off this weekend. Each year has a new theme, and the theme this time around is "The Future is Passe," in which "the future had been predicted, but that time has past." Bostonist asked Garen Daly, organizer of the festival, how he's kept the festival fresh for 33 years. He answered in an e-mail that, after thinking about a theme, "I imagine how it would look on a tee shirt, and would I buy it. If I answer yes, then I feel it is a good topic and other folks will like it as well."

The centerpiece of the festival is a screening of A Boy and His Dog, directed by LQ Jones and starring Don Johnson, looking more 60's rebel than 80's "Miami Vice." In the 1975 movie, Johnson and the titular dog search for food in a land ravaged by World War IV. The two are able to communicate, and the plot seems to be nothing more than sci-fi survival with a doggie, but then the movie justifies its subtitle "A Rather Kinky Tale of Survival" (link heads to NSFW trailer). A woman who offers Johnson some easy sex lures him to an underground cult that wants to use him as a permanent sperm donor. The twist is that the facepaint-fond underground cult isn't trying to cause anarchy--it wants to reproduce the middle class that was wiped out.

Full lineup after the jump! Still of Don Johnson courtesy of Garen Daly/Sci-Fi Film Festival.