This is Gwar

Via Nightstream Film Fest

What a blast from my HS days past to see so much GWAR footage! I loved looking at the origins of the band, the performance art, and the creativity growing as the band rose to cult classic pop culture “fame.” Most of this was interesting and fun, but toward the middle it lagged a little with some anecdotes that could not hold my interest. And then, hoo boy, the last thirty to forty minutes or so got so unexpectedly sad and it wrapped up bittersweet. I hope all the rest of these folks have a good life and easy retirement.

For all of the blood, guts, gore, and riotous anarchic chaos the band promotes, it’s truly something to see them be so human and raw and emotional. There’s a reason why they’re so good at what they do, and it’s because they’re all such passionate and vibrant humans. They’re just being themselves and spreading joy and I love to see it.

Watched as part of Nightstream Film Fest

Tw: raunchy sexual content in concert footage, graphic blood and bodily fluids, references of drug and alcohol abuse, reference to self-harm and depression and death, suicidal ideation, etc (it’s GWAR lmao so it sort of speaks for itself here if you’ve any remote awareness of who they are!)

Review by Ellen Avigliano
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