Punk Rock Holocaust 3

In 2011, the demonic, pop-punk Executioner returns to the Warped Tour with a 3rd installment featuring Angelo Moore of the ska/punk legends Fishbone!

Angelo is hosting his own talk show, The Angelo Show on the 2011 Warped Tour. Along with his field producer James, they travel with the tour interviewing bands on a homemade talk show set on a school bus. In their travels, Angelo and James discover there is a mysterious woman who is stalking the bands on the tour. The fans are turning into mindless zombies after their smart-phones become infected with a strange virus, and also band members who have previously died are back and performing on the tour. On top of all that the Executioner has returned and is running around killing the bands (sometimes re-killing) in the middle of the zombie chaos. Warped founder Kevin Lyman is once again caught in the middle of the madness, trying to maintain the Summer’s biggest rock fest and keep the Satanic Record Exec Belial at bay ( once again played by Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman) amidst the biggest Punk Rock Holocaust yet!

The Punk Rock Holocaust series is a unique mix of a horror/comedy movie combined live concert performances.

“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

“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

Punk Rock Holocaust

'Punks not dead...but it's about to be!'

The plot of the first film follows Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman as he tries to maintain the 2003 tour amidst a string of gristly murders at the hands of a pop-punk 'Executioner' while keeping the evil record executive Belial (Played by Troma Entertainment’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 original Punk Rock Holocaust features what has been called the highest on-screen body count in slasher film history with entire crowds being massacred in addition to the deaths of over 110 band members 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 more!

“Punk Rock Holocaust puts the “awesome” back in “constant bloodshed”.” -Tasteslikechicken.com

“Roger Corman meets Herschel Gordon Lewis!” -blacksmoke.org

“Punk Rock Holocaust” is purely entertaining, mindless fun” - Rock Press Magazine

Punk Rock Holocaust 2

''Punks not dead...it's just lost it's head!'

Set one year after the original movie, the sequel finds the demonic Executioner's headless, undead corpse back on the 2004 Vans Warped Tour 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?

The film 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!

“Punk Rock Holocaust 2 touches parts of (the punk) aesthetic that usually are left pretty much unexplored and/or unscathed. As a result, this fabulous fright farce earns a Highly Recommended rating. Those who like it louder, faster, nastier and nuttier need apply…Thanks to the devious Doug Sakmann, all your simplistic chord progression tendencies will be sufficiently satisfied - and then some.” - Bill Gibron – DVDtalk.com

“If you want comedy, bloodshed, and quality live footage, this is definitely the movie to provide it…With hilarious antics, gore, and high caliber music, Punk Rock Holocaust 2 is a rollercoaster ride of chopped limbs, severed heads and mosh pits.” - Unbound Zine

“Lots of energy, lots of music, lots of B-film blood, plenty of tongue in cheek, even some half-pipe stunts! Punk Rock Holocaust 2 is a worthy follow-up to the original, beyond a shadow of a doubt.” - Grand Guignol - BScared.com - 3.5 out of 4 Stars

Doug Sakmann – Director/Producer

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After a three-year stint as production manager for the legendary B-Movie house Troma Entertainment, in 2002 Doug co-Founded Backseat Conceptions, a production company with roots in live promotions. In 2003, Doug directed his first feature, “Punk Rock Holocaust“. The movie, a horror comedy set on the Vans Warped Tour saw a wide release both theatrically and on DVD in the U.S and around the world. The movie spawned a sequel with a third film in development. Through these movies and his work at Troma, Doug built a reputation in the horror community and has been sought out to direct and produce many horror themed movies and projects. Doug has produced over 18 feature films and directed many music videos, shorts and viral campaigns. Sakmann's movies have screened as official selections of film festivals around the world, and most have had theatrical runs  as well as a wide DVD release. Amassing a rabid cult following and critical acclaim, the original Punk Rock Holocaust is a featured film in the Syllabus of the New York University “Punk Cinema” course and was even featured in a retrospective at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH. In addition to producing and directing, Doug has over 10 years experience as a SPFX artist. In 2007 Doug founded the NYC Zombie Crawl an organization which sets up zombie themed events in the NY Area as well as provides zombie SFX makeup for clients and nationally touring acts. Doug has personally created & coordinated zombie makeup and events for clients including Sony Pictures, SEGA, the Tribeca Film Festival, “The Today Show” on NBC and more.

Nick Esposito – Producer / Production Manager

As a founding member of Backseat Conceptions, Nick Esposito toured with the Warped Tour in 2002, 2003 and 2004 where he produced and wrote additional material on Punk Rock Holocaust 1 & 2. As a music producer he has produced multi-camera shoots for Coheed and Cambria, Harry Connick Jr, Job for a Cowboy, Lamb of God, and many others. As a production manager he has worked on dozens of feature films and hundreds commercials and music videos in his sixteen year professional career.

Backseat Conceptions – Productions That Work

In 2002 a group of young film professionals toured on the Vans Warped Tour promoting for Troma Entertainment. After the overwhelming success of that tour they established their own production company, Backseat Conceptions. Since its inception, Backseat has distinguished its self as a truly unique production company which has produced dozens of films and worked on countless live concert shoots, music videos and commercials. The film credits of Backseat include Punk Rock Holocaust 1 & 2 which were shot on the Warped Tour. Recent projects include the film 'I Am A Fat Cat' which won the “Film of the Festival” award at the Raindance Film Festival in London, viral marketing campaigns for Simon and Schuster and Penguin Putnam Publishing as well as production services on the new show 'Paranormal Challenge' for the Travel Channel.