Three to See Edmonton Events: Dancing Plague, Dawn of the Dead and Star Wars Bad Batch finale
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Dancing Plague: All are invited to dress up this evening of darkwave, electronic body music, post-industrial and synth-punk — a brooding sample of the acts at the upcoming Verboden Festival in Vancouver next week!
Portland’s gothy-coldwave Dancing Plague headlines, with minimal synth artist Total Chroma from Vancouver and Montreal’s lo-fi, electro-industrial Renounce, plus beat-driven locals Visitor and bouncy synth-pop wizard Markus Midnight. This show looks absolutely amazing, keeping that black flame flickering undead in the night.
Details: 7 p.m. at Temple (10030 102 St.), $20 at starliteroom.ca
Dawn of the Dead (1978): Speaking of darkness! Considered by many to be the best zombie film of all time, George E. Romero’s followup to Night of the Living Dead is a savvy take on the excesses of consumerism, largely set in one of those new “shopping centres” popping up all over North America.
Bikers, police and of course scores of pasty-purple zombies duke it out in this frenzied portrait of civilization in decline in this new, 45th anniversary restoration.
Details: 9:30 p.m. at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $14
Bad Batch series finale: Like many Star Wars animated shows, this one looked pretty face-palmy at first sight when a group of yelly mutant Clone Troopers (all voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) showed up in the bonus season of The Clone Wars — every character uninventively named for whatever job he did — Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, etc.
And yet! Something about Omega (Michelle Ang) — a young female clone of Jango Fett with a twist that reverberates through The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker years and decades later — was instantly lovable, and I’d say this dark and human spinoff series had a way higher batting average than its progenitor, and is certainly above and beyond than the weak-sauce Obi-Wan and Ahsoka live series.
Great, well-earned finale episode, with an awesome time jump at the end.
Details: Now streaming on Disney+
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