{"id":265822,"date":"2013-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/sick-twisted-festival-opens-for-another-year\/"},"modified":"2013-08-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:00:00","slug":"sick-twisted-festival-opens-for-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/sick-twisted-festival-opens-for-another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick & Twisted Festival opens for another year"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your comic taste runs toward the profane, for $15 you can explore humor\u2019s darker side at the Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation, playing weekends between Aug. 24 and Nov. 23 in Sherwood Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) in La Jolla.
\nThis year marks the 20th anniversary of Sick & Twisted, a lower-key spinoff of Spike & Mike\u2019s Festival of Animation, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary. Both fests have charmed audiences over the years, delivering animated shorts from around the globe.
\n“It started out as films we couldn\u2019t program into the original show \u2014 films that were edgier,” said Craig “Spike” Decker, who created both film festivals.
\nDecker said Sick & Twisted started out as a test. One night he decided to show some of the more vile animated material to a younger crowd.
\n“They went nuts,” he said, over classic film shorts like “Bambi Meets Godzilla,” along with films from a core of animators from Vancouver, Canada, whose humor was over the top.
\n“I came up with a brand, then we started curating this show,” Decker said, adding the availability of edgy comic shorts at that time was limited, admitting, “We had to produce a lot of the films ourselves.”
\nSick & Twisted has become the showcase for cutting-edge animated comedy like “Beavis and Butthead,” which debuted at Sick & Twisted. “Ren & Stimpy” is another animated comedy classic that caught on in a larger market after getting exposure at Sick & Twisted.
\nDecker promises Sick & Twisted\u2019s 20th anniversary this year will be extra special, starting with a rare guest appearance by “Ren & Stimpy” creator John K at the Aug. 24 opening night.
\n“This Sick & Twisted show we have \u2014 the caliber and collection of films\u00a0\u2014 is absolutely the best that I could compile,” Decker said, adding it\u2019s also the most modern, having transitioned from film to digital mediums.
\n“The collection is just amazing, impeccable, international,” he said.
\nThe show will feature mostly new material with a few old favorites.
\n“We\u2019re very careful not to put too many films in there that people have seen before,” he said. “We don\u2019t want people to say we\u2019re just rehashing the same films. So we\u2019re very painstaking to make sure the films we put in are new and high quality or classics that the audience can participate in, like \u2018No Neck Joe.\u2019 ”
\nOne animated short in this year\u2019s Sick & Twisted even includes a local landmark\u00a0\u2014 the hut at La Jolla\u2019s Windansea Beach.
\nDecker said, as usual, Sick & Twisted crowds are interactive, reacting to the films. He said the traditional giant balloons will be in play and barf bags will be handed out again. This year\u2019s festival has a new attraction: glow-in-the-dark hand clappers.
\nSick & Twisted has become so popular over the years that, just like its progenitor, the Festival of Animation, it has become a family event shared by generations, Decker said.
\n“I have people coming in now bringing their kids,” he said. “If you want a place to have a good time and laugh, we have it.”
\nPara m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n visite www.animation-festivals.com\/festivals\/spike-and-mike-sick-and-twisted-festival<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If your comic taste runs toward the profane, for $15 you can explore humor\u2019s darker side at the Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation, playing weekends between Aug. 24 and Nov. 23 in Sherwood Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) in La Jolla. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Sick […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":265823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Sick & Twisted Festival opens for another year","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11560,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}