Dumpster Raccoon: CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990) - The Albert Pyun Director's Cut!
Schedule
Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 09:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Revue Cinema | Toronto, ON
Purchase Albert Pyun's CAPTAIN AMERICA Director's Cut Blu-Ray (Courtesy of YIPPEE KI-YAY MOTHER VIDEO) at check out or in our merch section! Blu-Rays can be picked up from Dec 5th at The Revue! Limited Quantity available! Act fast! DUMPSTER RACCOON CINEMA PROUDLY KICKS OFF ITS 2026 RUN with the DEBUT of ALBERT PYUN’S long-rumored and -awaited DIRECTOR’S CUT of his 1990 beloved cult classic bomb, CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990) – with LIVE PERFORMANCE and SPECIAL GUEST (and EXCLUSIVE EVENT POSTER ARTIST!) comic superstar writer CHIP ZDARSKY!
WAR!! Fighting on land and sea and skies! Beating back the blitz and storming beaches, fighting fascism inch by inch! A fight that’s all the GRIMMER when the Axis powers turn child prodigy Tadzio De Santis into the terrifying and brilliant RED SKULL with their newly designed super-soldier formula! With the WHITE HOUSE in the balance, there is only one hope to turn the tide – CAPTAIN AMERICA! Yet, even as the day is saved, and the Red Skull routed, our hero is lost in distance, darkness, and the cold…
BUT what happens when America’s star-spangled man with a plan defrosts in the hip and gritty nineties – even as corporate greed turns to an old fascist monster as it tries to corrupt a President dangerously hip to the new fad of ENVIRONMENTALISM??? Is Cap still RELEVANT??? Is America really stupid enough to let fascism RETURN??? And is it weird to date your old wartime girlfriend’s DAUGHTER???
Starring MATT SALINGER (author J.D. Salinger’s son!!!) as the all-American hero and SCOTT PAULIN as a weirdly sad and cerebral (and Italian!) Red Skull, director Albert Pyun’s (SWORD & SORCERER, CYBORG) only-technically-not-Cannon-Group CAPTAIN AMERICA film was detested by comics fans for its liberties with the material and critics for its lack of budget, script, or star, released straight to video in US markets…until the nerds got a hold of it, renting it in droves from the videostores and recognizing its charm and surprisingly toothsome critique of the ways fascism was not BEATEN so much as absorbed by the post-war American system, thriving happily behind the scenes and awaiting its chance to return. And, for decades, rumors circulated of an even toothier and smarter DIRECTOR’S CUT!
NOW, after months of breathless whispers are feverish half-leaks, THE RUMORS PROVE TRUE, as a heretofore almost entirely-unseen 111-minute cut MASTERED FROM PYUN’S SOLE SURVIVING 35MM PRINT has been struck by YIPPEE KI-YAY MOTHER VIDEO!
So join us, as some of us relive our childhoods in the basement with a worn-out Blockbuster VHS, and others see this lost treasure FOR THE FIRST TIME! With video preshow, host Anthony Oliveira, live performance, SPECIAL GUEST CHIP ZDARSKY, and cocktails by the Shameful Tiki Room – sponsored by Bay Street Video!
Where is it happening?
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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