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Punk Rock Holocaust and Punk Rock Holocaust 2

On the 2003 Vans Warped Tour, Backseat Conceptions produced a film called Punk Rock Holocaust , directed by Doug Sakmann. This rock and roll, slasher/zombie comedy has something for horror movie fans, Warped Tour fans and punkers alike with live performances and brutal murders featuring over 23 Warped Tour bands.

The film follows Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman as he tries to maintain the tour admist a string of gristly murders while keeping the evil record executive Belial (Played by Troma..s Lloyd Kaufman) at bay. Meanwhile, tour reporter Heather Vantress is trying to figure out who is behind the heinous crimes as the Warped Tour crew and bands (all played by themselves) are struggling to survive and stay on the road.

The film features many of the bands on the 2003 Vans Warped Tour, including (In alphabetical order) Atmosphere, Andrew WK, Beret, Big D and the Kids Table, Bowling For Soup, Destruction Made Simple, Dropkick Murphies, Face To Face, Glassjaw, Horrorpops, The Kids Of Widney High, Less Than Jake, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, MEST,Never Heard Of It, Pennywise, The Phenomenauts, Rancid, Simple Plan, Suicide Machines, Treephort, Tsunami Bomb, The Used, Vendetta Red and much more!

Then in 2004 (and 2005), the manical Executioner's headless body returned to the Warped Tour for Punk Rock Holocaust 2 ! Set one year after the original Punk Rock Holocaust, the demonic Executioner's headless, undead corpse is back on tour and it's looking for its head! The killer's body is tearing the heads off of various band members and sticking them on the jagged spinal cord where his neck used to be, using them to look for his own head. The heads retain the personality of the band member but the body is pure evil and is still carrying out the killings. The estranged heads aren’t on too good and keep falling off.

On the tour there is total “Holocaust Denial” as Kevin Lyman and his tour production staff refutes the reports of carnage that happened in the previous year. Meanwhile, the evil Record Executive Belial (once again played by Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman) is on the rampage and on Lyman’s case about the deaths on the tour. One precocious, nubile “Holocaust Survivor” named Meghan has become a reporter for a small independent magazine. She is determined to get to the bottom of the story and reveal the truth to the world. Kevin Lyman is hiding something, but why? And what?

Punk Rock Holocaust 2 features live music performances as well as acting performances from some of the top bands of the 2004 and 2005 Warped Tours including The Aquabats, Bouncing Souls, The Casualties, My Chemical Romance, River City Rebels, Riverboat Gamblers, The Planet Smashers, Mr. Dibbs, Teenage Harlets, Shira Girl, Pro BMX Rider Rick Thorne and more! The film's stars include Kevin Lyman, Troma's Lloyd Kaufman (creator of the Toxic Avenger) and Metal VJ Mistress Juliya!

"Punk Rock Holocaust truly turns the amps up to eleven in a way that Spinal Tap would never have dared..." -Filmthreat.com

"Doug Sakmann's lunatic love letter to bloodletting and mosh pitting is (a) big, brash power chord layered across the entire DIY mentality of the music and moviemaking he's championing. And the results are amazingly insane!" -DVDTalk.com

"Punk Rock Holocaust puts the "awesome" back in "constant bloodshed"!" -Tasteslikechicken.com

"Doug Sakmann's mixture of tour commentary and George A Romero-style gore is the most original twist on the rock video genre in a long, long time!" - Raindance Film Festival

"Roger Corman meets Herschel Gordon Lewis!" -blacksmoke.org

"Punk Rock Holocaust is purely entertaining, mindless fun..." - Rock Press Magazine

"Cheesier than a Vivid porno and gorier than the collected works of Lucio Fulci!" -Jeffrey Morgan, Detroit Metro Times

"This is the way Holocausts ought to be. It's the best Holocaust ever!!! I can't wait for the next one!!!" - Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of the Toxic Avenger

"Doug Sakmann blurs the line between Punk shockumetary and gut exploding documentary... Loved every minute of it. This movie will shock your ass right off! It did for me, now I save a bundle when I go to my tailor!" - Ted Raimi, actor (Evil Dead, Xena, Spiderman, The Grudge)