As promised/threatened, here is the Zoom link for the CMP U-CON Caucus 2023:

[link removed as the show is over]

The show starts at 6 PM, which means the earliest we’ll let people in from the Waiting Room is 5:30 PM. If there are technical difficulties of any sort (including sartorial ones), it could open quite a bit closer to 6 than 5.

U-CON is coming! In fact, it starts on Friday. We are continuing our tradition of running a Cine Mal Practice “caucus” show at U-CON. This is where the audience helps us narrow down some of the options (10 clips is probably too many for any given category) and choose between several clips from the same movie.

If you cannot attend U-CON, we will be streaming on Zoom (link to come). We will be testing Google Forms voting for those who do not wish to vote via Zoom (for example, those in the audience).

This all occurs on Saturday, November 18, starting at 6 PM Eastern, and ending when the curtain has been run down on decency and humanity, but probably well before midnight.

Here are the Final and Accurate Results of the fourth year’s Cine Mal Practice Shows. Certified by no one, and presented without fear of contradiction.

We had an in-person show on April 15, and a remote show with four bonus categories on August 19 (at 7 PM and again at 9 PM).

The In-Person Show

THE ELEVATOR PITCH
Mercury Man

LEAST-SPECIAL EFFECT
Ghost Shark

LOL
Mercury Man

MISTAKES WERE MAYDE
Zombie vs Ninja

SCIENCE!
Attack of the Puppet People

BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
Ghost Shark

FEATURED CREATURES
From Hell It Came

BECAUSE I’M EVIL
Cross

OVER THE TOP
Despiser

DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING
Evil Laugh

HOLD MY BEER
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

WORST ACTING
Zombie vs Ninja

WORST PICTURE
Ghost Shark

The Remote Show

ROMANCE: DOA
7 PM winner: Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens / Fenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankhamen (tie – Ali Baba won the 7 PM tiebreaker)
9 PM winner: Fenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankhamen
Overall winner: Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens

WTF?
7 PM winner: Humanity’s End
9 PM winner: Humanity’s End
Overall winner: Humanity’s End

SONGS IN THE KEY OF CMP
7 PM winner: One Million AC/DC
9 PM winner: One Million AC/DC
Overall winner: One Million AC/DC

ALL BAD THINGS
7 PM winner: The Wounded
9 PM winner: The Wounded / Evil Laugh (tie – Evil Laugh won the 9 PM tiebreaker)
Overall: The Wounded

If you are not running the latest version of Zoom (5.15.7), there is a chance you might not hear the audio.

Update at your own discretion.

It’s coming! It’s almost here!

The zoom link is:
[removed because the show is over]

No one will be admitted from the waiting room prior to 6:30 PM.

Bring your friends! Bring your enemies! Bring your snacks! Bring your enemy’s snacks … but don’t trust them!

Nudity, profanity, and blood-coming-out-the-sides-of-the-character’s-mouth will all be provided.