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Monday, April 30, 2018

Screenings in the Bay (Monday to Friday): Gehenna: Where Death Lives, Bad Samaritan, The Spiral Staircase



I am extremely excited about a certain movie that will be playing in San Francisco starting this Friday! It's one I've been wanting to see since its Kickstarter campaign, but questioned whether I'd ever be able to. And I really like the answer I got about it after all: Gehenna: Where Death Lives is opening at the Little Roxie on Friday and will be screening for a full week!

This week we're also getting Dr. Who like you've never seen him in Bad Samaritan, which opens for early screening on Thursday and opens wide Friday. 

The Stanford Theatre continues its suspenseful classic double features, and The Warriors come to the Clay Theatre for a midnight romp.


Opening This Week


Early Screenings Thursday 3rd (1hr 50min)
Opens Friday 4th
Horror/ Thriller (IMDB)
A valet (Robert Sheehan) develops a clever scam to burglarize the houses of rich customers. Things go smoothly until he robs the wrong customer (David Tennant), and discovers  a woman being held captive in his home.   Afraid of going to prison, he leaves the woman there and makes a call to the police, who find nothing when they investigate. Now, the valet must endure the wrath of the kidnapper who seeks revenge on him, all while desperately trying to find and rescue the captive woman he left behind.




IFC Midnight Presents

Monday 30th to Thursday 3rd @ 6:20pm (1hr 36min)
Comedy/ Crime/ Drama (IMDB)
What happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That's the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, Lowlife zigzags back and forth in time as it charts how fate-and a ruthless crime boss-connects three down-and-out reprobates mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme that goes from bad to worse to off-the-rails insane. Careening from savagely funny to just plain savage to unexpectedly heartfelt, this audacious thriller serves up nonstop adrenaline alongside hard-hitting commentary about the state of contemporary America.




Terror Tuesday

Tuesday 1st @ 10:35pm (1hr 47min)
Horror (MDB)
An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.




Rewind Wednesday

Hackers (1995)
Wednesday 2nd @ 7:30pm (1hr 47min)
Action/ Suspense/ Sci-Fi (Rotten Tomatoes)
After breaking into the computers of a massive oil company, a group of teen-age hackers uncovers evidence of a wide-ranging embezzling scheme. Their intrusion is discovered, and they must rally to find proof and save themselves before they are captured by the police in this techno-thriller.





Friday 4th @ 11:55pm (1hr 34min)
Action/ Thriller (IMDB)
Walter Hill's hip, super-stylized action film unfurls in a dystopian near-future, when various gangs control New York City. Each gang sports a unique moniker ('The Warriors,' 'The Baseball Furies,' 'The Rogues'), with a costume underscoring its "theme"; each, in turn, is also responsible for one geographic area. Hill sets up the landscape as a massive, violent playground - replete with bridges, vacant subway tunnels, parks, abandoned buildings and the like, all ripe for exploration and adventure. As the tale opens, the titular Coney Island has traveled to the Bronx to attend a city-wide meeting of all gangs; at that event, however, the psychotic leader of a rival gang, The Rogues (David Patrick Kelly of Dreamscape) assassinates the head of the city's foremost gang, but The Warriors are pegged as culpable. This sends the gang fleeing through the labyrinthine city. With every thug in Manhattan in vicious, homicidal pursuit, they must also overcome all obstacles in their way. Throughout, Hill keeps the onscreen violence absurd, exaggerated and unrealistic, downplaying death to an extreme degree; despite this fact, the film sparked a massive amount of controversy and an ugly backlash for allegedly inciting violence and destruction in several theaters where it initially played. James Remar, Michael Beck and Deborah Van Valkenburgh lead the ensemble cast. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Also screening Saturday @ 11:55pm





Screening All Week (1hr 38min)
Drama/ Horror (IMDB)
Experience three spine-tingling tales of terror to haunt your dreams. A debunker of all thing paranormal, Professor Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman) has devoted his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans on his own television show. His skepticism is put to the test, however, when he receives a file of three chilling, inexplicable cases: a night watchman (Paul Whitehouse) haunted by disturbing visions as he patrols an abandoned asylum; an edgy young man (Black Mirror's Alex Lawther) involved in a hellish car accident deep in the woods; and a wealthy former banker (Sherlock's Martin Freeman) visited by the poltergeist spirit of his unborn child. Even scarier: each of these macabre stories seems to have sinister connection to Professor Goodman's own life. Will they make a believer of him yet?





Opens Friday 4th (1hr 45min)
Horror/ Mystery/ Suspense (Rotten Tomatoes)
Paulina and Tyler visit Saipan to locate the ideal property for their new company resort. After finding the perfect location, they discover a hidden cave on the property and decide to explore with Alan, their local coordinator, and his assistant, Pepe. The cave reveals a long abandoned Japanese military base, dating back to WW2. Further investigation uncovers several dried up corpses, but curiosity outweighs fear and they walk further. From the darkness, an elderly man approaches; a man barely recognizable as human. Horrible deformities ravage his frail body, as if he had been living in the cave for his entire life. Alan panics and pushes the old man backward, sending him crashing into the wall with a force that ends the old man's life. A deafening explosion sends rocks and rubble everywhere. The intensity of the turbulence shakes the entire cave, knocking the group unconscious and seals them in the cave. They wake to find the dead body of the old man has disappeared, as well as the other corpses... Desperate to find an exit, they wander further into cave and encounter more sinister secrets in it depths. As the various sources and clues unwind the cave's mysteries, they'll learn that the most shocking conclusion still awaits them...

Screening All Weekend!




Double Feature

The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd @ 7:30pm (1hr 23min)
Horror/ Mystery/ Suspense (Rotten Tomatoes)
Spiral Staircase is a thriller about a mute servant (Dorothy McGuire) who works in an spooky mansion that may house a killer who has been murdering women who have physical deformities.

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On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd @ 5:55pm & 9:05pm (1hr 22min)
Drama/ Noir (IMDB)
Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in Nicholas Ray's moving film noir. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in snow-covered terrain, Wilson finds himself paired with the victim's father, Walter Brent (Ward Bond), who plans to shoot the killer himself. When the two men come upon a cabin occupied by Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman who is also the killer's sister, Wilson's life is changed forever. Mary, a generous and loving person who has cared for her mentally ill brother Danny (Sumner Williams) since the death of their parents, convinces Wilson to protect Danny from Brent. Wilson also promises to get help for Danny if he surrenders to him. Inspired by Mary's courage and recognizing Brent's rage as the mirror image of his own, Wilson gains the insight to free himself from his own blindness. The film includes a memorable score by Alfred Hitchcock favorite Bernard Herrmann. ~ Rovi


-Huntress

Friday, April 27, 2018

Screenings in the Bay (Friday to Sunday): Lowlife, Ghost Stories, George Romero Double Feature



I hope you guys are in a grindhouse kind of mood, because IFC Midnight's Lowlife is opening at the 4 Star Theatre in just a couple of hours! It will be screening all weekend and into next week, but it's definitely worth your while to see it opening weekend, because there will be several special guests joining the audience. Filmmakers will be at the theatre and will be doing a Q&A after the movie! On Saturday, a familiar face will be co-hosting the event. You may know his as Dave O'Shea, of Dave O'Shea's Day Job. It'll be at 8pm tomorrow!

Also this weekend, the British ghost anthology Ghost Stories will be screening at the Opera Plaza in downtown San Francisco! I was kind of bummed when it was only released on VOD last week, but seeing it on the Landmark Theatre calendar got me very excited! I definitely want to make it out to the theatre to check it out soon. I love a good anthology.



San Francisco Premiere

Friday 27th - Sunday 29th @ 8:10pm (1hr 36min)
Comedy/ Crime/ Drama (IMDB)
What happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That's the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, Lowlife zigzags back and forth in time as it charts how fate-and a ruthless crime boss-connects three down-and-out reprobates mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme that goes from bad to worse to off-the-rails insane. Careening from savagely funny to just plain savage to unexpectedly heartfelt, this audacious thriller serves up nonstop adrenaline alongside hard-hitting commentary about the state of contemporary America.

Filmmakers will be in attendance opening weekend and will do a Q&A after the film!




Friday 27th @ 10:40pm (1hr 30min)
Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th @ 11:20am & 10:55pm
Drama/ Mystery/ Thriller (IMDB)
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

Also Screening at Landmark Embarcadero





Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Friday 27th @ 7:30pm (1hr 36min)
Horror (IMDB)
There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these flesh eating monsters.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Friday 27th @ 9:20pm (2hrs 7min)
Action/ Horror/ Sci-Fi (Rotten Tomatoes)
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.





Screening All Weekend (1hr 38min)
Drama/ Horror (IMDB)
Experience three spine-tingling tales of terror to haunt your dreams. A debunker of all thing paranormal, Professor Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman) has devoted his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans on his own television show. His skepticism is put to the test, however, when he receives a file of three chilling, inexplicable cases: a night watchman (Paul Whitehouse) haunted by disturbing visions as he patrols an abandoned asylum; an edgy young man (Black Mirror's Alex Lawther) involved in a hellish car accident deep in the woods; and a wealthy former banker (Sherlock's Martin Freeman) visited by the poltergeist spirit of his unborn child. Even scarier: each of these macabre stories seems to have sinister connection to Professor Goodman's own life. Will they make a believer of him yet?





Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Friday 27th @ 7:30pm (2hrs)
Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th @ 3:45pm & 7:30pm
Action/ Romance/ Thriller (IMDB)
Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's Personal History before producer Walter Wanger brought the property to the screen as Foreign Correspondent. What emerged was approximately 2 parts Sheehan and 8 parts director Alfred Hitchcock--and what's wrong with that? Joel McCrea stars as an American journalist sent by his newspaper to cover the volatile war scene in Europe in the years 1938 to 1940. He has barely arrived in Holland before he witnesses the assassination of Dutch diplomat Albert Basserman: at least, that's what he thinks he sees. 

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The 39 Steps (1935)
Friday 27th to Sunday 29th @ 5:55pm & 9:40pm (1hr 27 min)
Mystery/ Thriller (IMDB) 
A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring trying to steal top secret information.


-Huntress

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Unnamed Footage Festival Award Winners


We are still reeling with the amazing response we got for the Unnamed Footage Festival! We met a lot of great people and made some new friends in this whole process, and of course, we got to share some tragically underrated films with the bay area's horror audience. 

Now, it's time to make the long awaited announcement of who the hell won the audience and jury awards?!? We had some very open minded (but in some cases pretty stubborn) audiences, and the same goes for the jury, so I have been just as excited to see how this all turns out as you have, so let's take a look!


Audience Awards

Best Short


Internet Story (2010)
If you STILL have not seen this film, fix that right now, please! It's on Adam Butcher's YouTube and Vimeo channels, and it's such an interesting and well crafted journey that reels you in the moment it starts, then leaves you chilled when the screen goes black afterwards.

In fact, I'll even include it!

Internet Story from Adam Butcher on Vimeo.



Best Feature



Butterfly Kisses (2018)
I don't think there are any surprises with this one, as Butterfly Kisses even had me questioning how much of it was real, and I saw it at a film festival! I mean, the main character is so simultaneously unlikable but also completely relatable that he just has to be real. This film was immaculately crafted both as a documentary and also a horror film, so it attacked you from both angles and there was no escape. Congratulations!



Jury Awards

Best Short



Two Guys Break into Thorpe Park (2014)
Less than three minutes of adrenaline fueled adventure and adolescent stupidity as two guys break into an amusement park after hours. Needless to say, things go very wrong! From the always unpredictable mind of Lee Hardcastle, it definitely stands out both on his YouTube channel and also in our programming! Check it out below.






Best Feature


The Triangle (2016)
A little sci-fi and a lot of chin scratching come with this lesser known film called The Triangle, but it's one of the features that our jury just couldn't get out of their heads! It was filmed entirely in the desert, and all of the actors were basically playing themselves which gave this film an incredibly authentic feel. And I don't know how these filmmakers found so many people willing to live in the Montana desert for this long, but I'm glad they did! 



CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!


You can also check out the latest episode of the Overlook Hour for the first official announcement of the UFF winners, along with a fantastic interview with Adam Butcher!




(Also available on iTunes)

Thanks for a successful first year everyone!

-Huntress

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Killer Klowns From Outer Space, The Bone Yard & Maze Runner 3


April 24th 2018


Bluray Tuesday arrives once again and this week is loaded with titles! Arrow Video is finally releasing the anticipated remastered version of Killer Klowns From Outer Space with a few new features. 90's cult classic The Bone Yard hits Bluray for the first time from Code Red. I remember seeing this as a kid and I'm looking forward to revisiting this one. The third film in the Maze Runner Trilogy, Maze Runner: The Death Cure also hits shelves today. Best Buy will carry an exclusive steelbook packaging for this one. Best Buy will also release a 4K anniversary edition of Deadpool that you can enjoy in full 4K before seeing the sequel in theaters in a few weeks. Scream Factory releases another title I've been looking forward to checking out, Daughters of Satan this week. Vinegar Syndrome releases 70's horror film Terror for the first time on Bluray as well. Rounding out the week is action thriller Den of Thieves, western drama Hostiles and the 40th anniversary of Grease released in standard, 4K and steelbook editions. What will you buy, rent or just skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

Killer Klowns From Outer Space: Amazon - $17.99

A spaceship that looks like a circus tent lands in a field near a small town, signaling the attack of deviant, red-nosed, balloon-twisting psychos from another world who plan to annihilate mankind by turning people into cotton candy! Luckily, the town's teen citizenry decides to fight back and teach the cosmic bozos a lesson.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Blu-ray) 

The Bone Yard: Amazon - $16.99

Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
The Boneyard (Blu-ray) 

 Maze Runner: The Death Cure: Amazon - $19.99
4K: Amazon - $24.99

Thomas leads some escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions that the Gladers have been asking since they arrived in the maze.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Blu-ray) 

Maze Runner: The Death Cure 4K (Blu-ray) 

Steelbook: Best Buy - $24.99

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Blu-ray) 

Deadpool (4K Steelbook): Best Buy - $24.99

Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. His world comes crashing down when evil scientist Ajax (Ed Skrein) tortures, disfigures and transforms him into Deadpool. The rogue experiment leaves Deadpool with accelerated healing powers and a twisted sense of humor. With help from mutant allies Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Deadpool uses his new skills to hunt down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

Deadpool 4K (Blu-ray) 

Paddington 2: Amazon - $22.99

Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
 
 Paddington 2 (Blu-ray) 

Den of Thieves: Amazon - $19.99

Nick O'Brien is the hard-drinking leader of the Regulators, an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Ray Merrimen is the recently paroled leader of the Outlaws, a gang of ex-military men who use their expertise and tactical skills to evade the law. O'Brien, Merrimen and their crews soon find themselves on a direct collision course as the criminals hatch an elaborate plan for a seemingly impossible heist -- the city's Federal Reserve Bank.

Den of Thieves (Blu-ray) 

Grease (40th Anniversary): Amazon - $26.99

Experience the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of "Grease," the most successful movie musical of all time. A wholesome exchange student (Olivia Newton-John) and a leather-clad Danny (John Travolta) have a summer romance, but will it cross clique lines?

Grease 4K (Blu-ray) 

Steelbook Collection: Amazon - $27.99

Grease Collection (Blu-ray) 

Terror: Amazon - $19.99

Royal descendants feel the wrath of the curse of condemned witch Mad Dolly, who spews forth her prophecy while she is burned at the stake. The victims suffer death by having their heads removed in various fashions, getting their limbs caught in animal traps, knife wounds, and other methods of medieval torture.

Terror (Blu-ray) 

The Virgin Suicides: Amazon - $25.99

The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent American suburb in the '70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters.

The Virgin Suicides (Blu-ray) 

The Maze 3D: Amazon - $22.99

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.

The Maze 3D (Blu-ray) 

Daughters of Satan: Amazon - $21.99

James Robertson buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife, Chris. Chris, gradually taken over by the personality of the witch in the painting that she resembles, allies herself with two other reincarnated witches to plan James' death, as he proves to be a descendant of the man responsible for the witches' fate.

Daughters of Satan (Blu-ray) 

Hostiles: Amazon - $19.99
 4K: Amazon - $24.99

In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Hostiles (Blu-ray) 

Hostiles 4K (Blu-ray) 

Liquid Sky: Amazon - $19.99

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.)

Liquid Sky (Blu-ray) 

Forever My Girl: Amazon - $17.99

After being gone for a decade a country star returns home to the love he left behind.

Forever My Girl (Blu-ray) 


-The Impostor

Monday, April 23, 2018

Screenings in the Bay (Monday to Friday): Lowlife, The Devil and Father Amorth, The Night of the Hunter


This looks to be the week of double features and George Romero movies in the bay area... and that's fine by me! The Castro and Roxie Theatres are both celebrating the man who fathered the modern day zombie by showing several of his films throughout the week and it looks like there are more in store as well. The Castro is also playing an explorative double feature on Wednesday with Annihilation and Stalker. Not to be upstaged, the Roxie presents a William Friedkin double feature on Tuesday night consisting of The Devil and Father Amorth and the director's cut of The Exorcist. I've heard that the former of these two has actual footage of an exorcism, which is why I have my tickets already.

The end of this week highlights a special event going on at the 4 Star Theatre, which I'll take any excuse to visit. But this Friday, the IFC Midnight presented film Lowlife will be opening at the 4 Star, and it will be accompanied by several guests, who will be attending each screening (throughout the weekend too) and will be on hand for a Q&A after each show. This blackened comedy has been getting a great response from audiences so far, come out and see why!



IFC Midnight Presents

Lowlife (2018)
Opens Friday 27th (1hr 36min)
Comedy/ Crime/ Drama (IMDB)
What happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That's the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, Lowlife zigzags back and forth in time as it charts how fate-and a ruthless crime boss-connects three down-and-out reprobates mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme that goes from bad to worse to off-the-rails insane. Careening from savagely funny to just plain savage to unexpectedly heartfelt, this audacious thriller serves up nonstop adrenaline alongside hard-hitting commentary about the state of contemporary America.




Terror Tuesday

Tuesday 24th @ 9:45pm (1hr 28min)
Comedy/ Fantasy/ Horror (IMDB)
In an effort to avoid spending time with her father and his creepy new lover, young Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) resolves to visit her aunt's remote mansion. With six of her closest friends in tow, including the musically inclined Melody (Eriko Tanaka) and the geeky Prof (Ai Matsubara), Gorgeous arrives at the estate, where supernatural events occur almost immediately. A severed head takes flight, household appliances come to life and a portrait of a cat seems to contain an evil spirit.




Double Feature

Annihilation (2018)
Wednesday 25th @ 6:30pm (2hrs)
Adventure/ Drama/ Fantasy (IMDB)
Based on Jeff VanderMeer's best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac. It was written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later).

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Stalker (1979)
Wednesday 25th @ 8:40pm (2hrs 43min)
Drama/ Sci-Fi (IMDB)
Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier Solaris, was adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by brothers Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky. The film follows three men -- the Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), the Writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn), and the Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) -- as they travel through a mysterious and forbidden territory in the Russian wilderness called the "Zone." In the Zone, nothing is what it seems. Objects change places, the landscape shifts and rearranges itself. It seems as if an unknown intelligence is actively thwarting any attempt to penetrate its borders. In the Zone, there is said to be a bunker, and in the bunker: a magical room which has the power to make wishes come true. The Stalker is the hired guide for the journey who has, through repeated visits to the Zone, become accustomed to its complex traps, pitfalls, and subtle distortions.


Double Romero

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Friday 27th @ 7:30pm (1hr 36min)
Horror (IMDB)
There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these flesh eating monsters.

-with-


Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Friday 27th @ 9:20pm (2hrs 7min)
Action/ Horror/ Sci-Fi (Rotten Tomatoes)
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.




By George!

Monday 23rd @ 7pm (1hr 40min)
Horror/ Drama
Frustrated with her uncommunicative husband and distant daughter, a suburban housewife seeks solace in witchcraft.


William Friedkin Double Feature

Tuesday 24th @ 7pm @1hr 8min)
Documentary (IMDB)
Years after he changed the landscape of American filmmaking with 1973's THE EXORCIST, director, co-writer and legendary storyteller William Friedkin moves from fiction to fact with his new documentary, THE DEVIL AND FATHER AMORTH. What began as a brief conversation between Friedkin and Father Gabrielle Amorth - the head Exorcist for the Diocese of Rome for over 30 years - as two professionals who knew of each other's work soon transformed into an once-in-a- lifetime opportunity, as Amorth agreed Friedkin could film an exorcism ceremony. It would be the ninth exorcism for a painfully afflicted woman, Cristina (a pseudonym), who had already been under Father Amorth's care - and it would be filmed by Friedkin alone, with no other crew allowed, no light other than the natural light in the room and a small digital camera-and-mic unit that could capture the ritual and its revelations. Combining the startling and singular footage from Cristina's exorcism with interviews from priests and psychologists, neurosurgeons and non-believers, Friedkin guides us on a journey into the twilight world between the boundaries of what we know and what we don't with a singular and startling guide in the form of the urbane, charming and self-deprecatingly funny Father Amorth, a man who laughs in the face of the Devil both figuratively and literally. Combining Friedkin's past memories and present observations with archival footage and new interviews - as well as also presenting what may be the only real exorcism ceremony captured on film - THE DEVIL AND FATHER AMORTH is a startling and surprising story of the religion, the ritual and the real-world victims involved in possession and exorcism.

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Tuesday 24th @ 8:10pm (2hrs 12min)
Horror (IMDB)
A bona fide cultural phenomenon, when THE EXORCIST first released into theaters, all hell broke loose. Adapted from the novel by William Peter Blatty and nominated for 10 Academy Awards, this story of a little girl possessed by the demon and the priests who are charged with saving her soul, is considered by many to be the scariest movie of all time. This Extended Directors Cut adds 10 minutes of previously unseen footage, trimmed from the original release and digitally enhanced Chris Newman’s Oscar-winning sound work.

Director's Cut



Thursday 26th @ 7pm & 915pm (1hr 40min)
Animation
The influence of surrealism extended far beyond its initial origins of Bunuel and Dali- even our cartoon pals took on a few unusual and not-all-together real escapades. A crazed collection surreal animations from 1908 thru the ’50s and beyond – all projected from 16mm film!




Double Feature

The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Wednesday 25th & Thursday 26th @ 7:30pm (1hr 32min)
Crime/ Drama/ Noir (IMDB)
Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of farm kids and a pious old lady, and "evil" literally in the hands of a posturing psychopath. Imprisoned with thief Ben Harper (Peter Graves), phony preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) learns that Ben has hidden a huge sum of money somewhere near his home. Upon his release, the murderously misogynistic Powell insinuates himself into Ben's home, eventually marrying his widow Willa (Shelley Winters). Eventually all that stands between Powell and the money are Ben's son (Billy Chapin) and daughter (Sally Jane Bruce), who take refuge in a home for abandoned children presided over by the indomitable, scripture-quoting Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish). The war of wills between Mitchum and Gish is the heart of the film's final third, a masterful blend of horror and lyricism. Laughton's tight, disciplined direction is superb -- and all the more impressive when one realizes that he intensely disliked all child actors. The music by Walter Schumann and the cinematography of Stanley Cortez are every bit as brilliant as the contributions by Laughton and Agee. Overlooked on its first release, The Night of the Hunter is now regarded as a classic. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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The Window (1949)
Wednesday 25th @ Thursday 26th @ 6:05pm & 915pm (1hr 13min)
Drama/ Noir/ Thriller (IMDB)
In this melodrama, Bobby Driscoll stars as a young boy prone to fibs. Thus, no one believes Driscoll when he claims to have seen a murder in a neighboring apartment. No one, that is, except the killers. With no help from his parents or the law, Driscoll must save himself.


Double Feature

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Friday 27th @ 7:30pm (2hrs)
Action/ Romance/ Thriller (IMDB)
Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's Personal History before producer Walter Wanger brought the property to the screen as Foreign Correspondent. What emerged was approximately 2 parts Sheehan and 8 parts director Alfred Hitchcock--and what's wrong with that? Joel McCrea stars as an American journalist sent by his newspaper to cover the volatile war scene in Europe in the years 1938 to 1940. He has barely arrived in Holland before he witnesses the assassination of Dutch diplomat Albert Basserman: at least, that's what he thinks he sees. 

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The 39 Steps (1935)
Friday 18th @ 7:30pm (1hr 27 min)
Mystery/ Thriller (IMDB) 
A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring trying to steal top secret information.

This double feature also plays all weekend


-Huntress