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Raging anti-consumerism, ’70s-horror-film nostalgia, and puking may not sound like the stuff of cohesive cinema, but Lucas and Spielberg be damned if it doesn’t make for a scathing indictment of Hollywood. Written, directed, and distributed by Damon Packard, Reflections of Evil also features the filmmaker playing his movie’s central role. Bob, a sugar-addicted compulsive eater and slob, spends his time selling $5 watches on the streets of Los Angeles, while his sister searches for him from beyond the grave. Culminating in an otherworldly journey through the Universal Studios theme park (from which the director is now officially banned for shooting on the lot without permission), Packard’s disjointed acid trip of a flick does just about everything it can to defy description. And the Washington Psychotronic Film Society’s screening of his self-proclaimed “epic film of mammoth proportions” may be the only chance you’ll ever get to give it one: The film is nearly impossible to get a hold of because, though he had 29,000 copies of Reflections professionally pressed to DVD, Packard’s already given them all away for free. The movie screens at 8 p.m. at Dr. Dremo’s Taphouse, 2001 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington. $2 (suggested donation). (202) 736-1732. (MB)