Saturday, April 8, 2017

Screenings in the Bay (Friday to Sunday): The Void, TerrorVision, Texas Chainsaw Massacre


What a weekend! I don't know why, but it seems like all the theatres that have been quiet on the horror front decided to screen all their favorites. Take the New Parkway Theatre for example. They're showing to classics back to back. And in a pleasant turn of events, the Super Shangri-La Show double feature for this week is being held on Saturday as part of the Balboa's Beer Movies series. That means your ticket includes a can of beer, as well as a cool double feature.

VOD is also looking great!
Most of the new releases are being shown in a limited number of theatres, but if none of them are playing near you, there's always the rental route.

And we're going to miss all of it! But we're at Monsterpalooza so it's hard to complain 😁


Premiering This Week


Limited Theatres/ VOD Friday 7th (1hr 30min)
Horror (IMDB)
When police officer Carter (Aaron Poole) discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil.





Limited Theatres/ VOD Friday 7th
Horror (IMDB)
Tom Green (Road Trip, Freddy got Fingered) and Shannen Doherty (Charmed, Beverly Hills 90210) star in the spine-chilling Bethany, from acclaimed filmmaker James Cullen Bressack (Pernicious, To Jennifer), in theaters and On Demand this April. After Claire's mother dies, she and her husband move back to her childhood home only to have the abusive and traumatic memories of her mother come back and bring unrest into the house. Claire soon finds herself in a fog of past and present when her imaginary friend from childhood begins haunting her memories. What is this terrifying thing that is trying to reach out to her, and what does it want? Stefanie Estes (If Looks Could Kill), Zack Ward (Restoration), Keith Jardine (John Wick), Leon Russom (TV's Prison Break) and Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp) star in a film by James Cullen Bressack.





Limited Theatres/VOD Friday 7th (1hr 50min)
Sci-Fi/ Thrillerr (Google)
Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.



Super Shangri-La Show Presents

Saturday 8th @ 10pm (1hr 23min)
Comedy/ Horror/ SciFi (IMDB)
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.

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Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek ( 1973)
Saturday 8th (1hr 12min)
Comedy/ SciFi/ Mystery (IMDB)
The Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo.




Saturday 8th @ 9:20pm (1hr 47min)
Action/ SciFi (IMDB)
A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.



Saturday 8th @ 10pm (1hr 23min)
Horror (IMDB)
Just as Hitchcock's Psycho was based on the life of deeply disturbed farmer Ed Gein, so is this little story of depravity and dementia. When a sister and her brother take a group of friends to visit the farmhouse of their deceased grandfather, they discover that just next door lives a whole family of repugnant psycho killers. Most noteworthy is "Leatherface" who is the bloke who wields the power saw and has a penchant for human flesh. Though the film did not enjoy immediate success at the box office, it has since gathered a hefty cult following. Directed by Tobe Hooper, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is considered by many to be groundbreaking work in the genre of horror.



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The Seventh Victim (1943)
Friday 7th to Sunday 9th @ 7:30pm + 4:45 on weekend (1hr 11min)
Drama/ Horror/ Mystery (IMDB)
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village, and finds that they may have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.

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The Leopard Man (1943)
Friday 7th to Sunday 9th @ 6:10pm & 8:55pm (1hr 6min)
Horror/ Thriller (IMDB)
A seemingly tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy new Mexico town.




Friday 7th @ 11pm (1hr 37min)
Roxie Theatre
Drama/ Horror (IMDB)
An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Michael O'Shea's debut feature The Transfiguration follows troubled teen Milo who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo's dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality. A chilling portrait of violence, The Transfiguration is an atmospheric thriller set against the grit of New York City.



Saturday 8th @ 10pm (1hr 31min)
Documentary (IMDB)
An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, the "man behind the curtain", and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.


-Huntress

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