Happy October 1st everyone! 🎃
This week we get another chance to see the almost unanimously loved Mandy in theatres, so if you haven't seen it yet, you have until Wednesday to catch it at the Alamo and probably later since I'm sure showtimes will continue to be added. The Alamo is also having a double Hershell Gordon Lewis week, as Blood Feast and The Gore Gore Girls take over terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday. We're also getting another new horror movie opening in select theatres and VOD this Friday. Beetlejuice screens at midnight at the Clay Theatres, and the 4 Star surprises us again by being the only theatre in the SF bay area to be screening The Church, another new title opening this Friday.
October is off to a great start!
Opening This Week
Select Theatres/VOD Friday 5th (1hr 31min)
Horror/ Mystery/ Sci-Fi (IMDB)
It's Christmas Day and the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly - an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen a message glows ominously: 'Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions'. As the television exerts an ever more sinister grip, their paranoia escalates into bloody carnage. A powder keg of throat-grabbing intensity and mind-bending body horror, AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS is an unmissable tour-de-force from rising star filmmaker Johnny Kevorkian and the BAFTA-nominated producer of God's Own Country.
Opens Friday 5th (1hr 21min)
Horror/ Thriller (IMDB)
In this twisting, heart-pounding thriller, the minister of a once vibrant, landmark Baptist church, now struggling to survive, is the sole hold-out in a decaying Philadelphia neighborhood earmarked for gentrification. But ultimately, the preacher's steely resolve to preserve his family's evangelical legacy in the community and dwindling congregation dissolves under relentless pressure from his status-seeking wife and greedy church leaders. Lured by cash bribes and promises from unscrupulous developers to establish a flashy mega-ministry elsewhere.
Monday 1st @ 7pm & 9:35pm (2hrs)
Tuesday 2nd @ 1:15pm & 10:20pm
Wednesday 3rd @ 12:25pm & 9:15pm
Action/ Horror/ Thriller (IMDB)
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Terror Tuesday
Tuesday 2nd @ 10:05pm (1hr 7min)
Slasher/ Splatter (Google)
Crude exploitation filmmaker, Herschell Gordon Lewis strayed not a hair from his usual style (or lack of) with this gruesome feature. Attempting to evoke the spirit of an ancient Egyptian love goddess, a wacko freak-boy hacks up tender young girls to synthesize their various anatomical parts. Lewis served as director, cinematographer and composer for this David F. Friedman (Color Me Blood Red, Scum of the Earth) production. Friedman himself appears in the picture (uncredited) as a drunk.
Weird Wednesday
Wednesday 3rd @ 10:20pm (1hr 21min)
Mystery/ Splatter (Google)
Infamous exploitation icon Herschell Gordon Lewis wrapped up his lengthy foray into low-budget gore epics with this coda, which not only sports Lewis' most creative title, but revels in an amazing barrage of outrageous (and patently fake-looking) makeup effects. The nominal plot involves a masked psychopath stalking, torturing, and murdering the strippers at a Miami nightclub owned by standup veteran Henny Youngman. But enough of that -- it's merely a loose linking device for a multitude of sleazy murder scenes, all of which involve some kind of sick visual gag. The murders range from simple throat-slashings to the popping of eyeballs to the protracted french-frying of one poor girl's head. Essentially a retread of Blood Feast (and perhaps an attempt to outdo some), this flick was re-released later under the title Blood Orgy.
Midnight Madness
Friday 5th @ 11:55pm (1hr 32min)
Comedy/ Horror/ Fantasy (Rotten Tomatoes)
Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are killed in a freak auto accident. Upon arriving in the outer offices of Heaven, the couple finds that, thanks to a century's worth of bureaucratic red tape, they're on a long celestial waiting list. Before they can earn their wings, Davis and Baldwin must occupy their old house as ghosts for the next fifty years. Alas, the house is now owned by insufferable yuppies Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones. Horrified at the prospect of sharing space with these obnoxious interlopers, Davis and Baldwin do their best to scare O'Hara and Jones away, but their house-haunting skills are pathetic at best. In desperation, the ghostly couple engage the services of a veteran scaremeister: a yellow-haired, snaggle-toothed, profane, flatulent "gonzo" spirit named Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton). The problem: Beetlejuice cannot be trusted-especially when he falls in love with O'Hara and Jones' gloomy, black-clad teenaged daughter Winona Ryder.
Also Screening Saturday 6th!
Staff Picks
Wednesday 3rd @ 8:30pm (1hr 46min)
Drama/ Comedy (Google)
This off-beat comedy is about romance in the 1980s and the relationships between an insecure bar owner who is absolutely irresistible to men, a neurotic radio psychologist, and a womanizing genius who is also a pathological liar.
-Huntress
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