Starring: Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia, David Proval, Rocco Sisto, Chazz Palminteri, Tony Sirico
Print courtesy of the John Landis Collection at the Academy Film Archive
She’s a thirsty vampire intent on only feeding on criminals, and this time she’s going out for Italian!
When bloodsucking Marie (Anne Parillaud) starts picking off members of the Pittsburgh mafia, she fails to finish the job with ruthless capo Sal “the Shark” Macelli (a gloriously over-the-top Robert Loggia). Transformed into a vampire, Sal wreaks havoc on the city, and Marie enlists the help of Detective Joseph Gennaro (Anthony LaPaglia) to stop the bloodletting.
Featuring some of your favorite paisans (including Tony Lip and Tony Sirico), plus a slew of fun cameos, Innocent Blood is a gore-soaked extravaganza with a demented sense of humor and gorgeous cinematography that will look incredible onscreen from director John Landis’s personal archival print.
Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Marilyn Hassett, Chief Dan George, Marianne Jones, Pia Shandel, “Bruno The Bear”
This November, pull up to the proverbial table with your Deuce family as we feast on a Fall-y, folksy fright-flick sure to satisfy your hunger for hoary horrors… and lest some forget the fabled fires which fostered such fetes (as so many loggerheady louts these days do non-too-subtly scurrilously suggest) – so shall the spine-chilling siren shriek of SHADOW OF THE HAWK serve as their just desserts! (KEEE-ah KEEE-ah!)
Big-city boy Mike (Jan-Michael Vincent – henceforth simply: “JMV”) seems to have “it all” – what with his cubicled computer career, chi-chi condo, and cash-stacked hence even chi-chier girlfriend… until his haven’t-seen-in-ten-years tribal medicine man grandad (moviedom’s most recognizable Native face, Chief Dan George) crashes his planned “night-with-the-gang” party with talk of taking his petulant progeny (and a newly-found female-friend reporter with a nose for “news”) on a trek “homeward” – through the oft terrifying Teton-ish Northwest Territory forest… in which JMV’s corporate company-man will be forced to fess up to and face the all-too-familiar fears of familial responsibility… “Familiar” – that is – if your familial fears feature saving the world (??) from the devilish demon Dzunuk’wa and all her dastardly Native sorcery conjurings! Such the likes of: a car that just… disappears! Then reappears at random!! And specters! Snake specters!! Warrior wraiths!! And.. a “rabid bear”!! (KEEE-ah KEEE-ah!)
Fermenting or fomenting from a fever-dreamish story/script by The Deuce’s October pic’s penner/codirector/freak Norman Thaddeus Vane (last month’s THE BLACK ROOM) – thus making a make-shift mini-retrospective… be it vain or in vane.. or, say, an almost Vane – SHADOW OF THE HAWK doesn’t shy away from weirdness!! At once Earthbound and ethereal – the “reality” of its nature-film vistas and setting filtered through an eerie atmospheric haze of head-scratching WTF disregard for logic, explanations, and basic storytelling… A miasma of mishegoss and ghoulishness straddling a Grand Canyon of the earnest and ridiculous – the only tether that of Chief Dan George’s slyly letting on to just how fun this whole hokey-hullabaloo really is… And yet, though buoyed by charisma by the buckets-full, still proved a chasm the seasoned crowd of Times Square’s Cine 42 found too hard to fathom – staying nary a week on its screen before being shuttled off to the outer borough boondocks – to be all but forgotten save some naggingly lingering feeling of unease that crept in unnoticed… Festering and forever fated to be remembered – as will you – SHADOW OF THE HAWK… and its “rabid bear”!! (KEEE-ah KEEE-ah!)
“Do you read Sutter Cane watch John Carpenter?”
Join us for an evening celebrating John Carpenter: the man, the myth, the movies. Dive into the mouth of madness with comedians Kevin Maher and Camila Jones for a 90-minute multi-media comedy-variety show.
With special guests:
• Max Bank (Host, UCB CAGE MATCH)
• Cece Dynamite (Burlesque Performer/Producer)
• Ritch Duncan (Editor-In-Chief, DEATHBED: Horror Stories by Comedy Writers)
• Becki Kozel (Unemployed Creative Director)
• Amanda Lehr (Writer, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s)
• Jay Stern (film and theater director, professor of filmmaking at Rider University)
See why SyFy called Kevin “an insane genius” in the series DailyGrindhouse.com described as “TED Talks for Midnight Movies.” Don’t miss out on this one-night-only special event.
**Don’t miss our custom 30-minute pre-show video that plays as soon as the house opens. Curated by Camila Jones.
On October 21, take a harrowin’, white-knucklin’ trip – from Van Cortlandt Park down to Coney Island – with The Deuce and authors Michael Gingold and Chris Poggiali when we celebrate the release of their hardcover Armies of the Night… with a 35mm screening of Walter Hill’s THE WARRIORS! Plus a post-screening Q&A and book signing in Trees-Lounge before and after!!
When THE WARRIORS stormed onto screens in 1979, it packed theaters, shocked critics, and ignited fierce controversy… decades later, Walter Hill’s visionary tale of urban warfare remains an influential classic, capturing the gritty essence of late-1970s New York City like no other movie…
The truth behind THE WARRIORS is as electrifying as the film itself – from Sol Yurick’s groundbreaking 1965 novel to a daring screenplay overhaul, through a chaotic production filled with gang confrontations and the loss of a lead actor mid-shoot, and into the eye of a public firestorm.
With Armies of the Night, authors Michael Gingold and Chris Poggiali dive into the film’s history, with exclusive cast and crew interviews, extensive vintage reportage, and dozens of rare photos and promotional images. Produced and released by 1984 Publishing, Armies of the Night delivers the definitive saga of a movie that took the streets by storm—shattering genre conventions and transcending its tumultuous debut to become a cultural phenomenon.
Says Gingold and Poggiali: “Discovering the details of that story—and those of the tempestuous production that resulted in a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience—over the course of writing this book has been a revelation, and we’re very excited to be ‘sending the word’ out to readers when Armies of the Night bops its way into a bookstore near you… Can you dig it???”
Celebrate The Official Release Party of a Showgirl in theatres only October 3rd – 5th. See the exclusive world premiere of the music video, “The Fate of Ophelia,” along with behind-the-scenes footage from the music video shoot, brand new lyric videos and Taylor’s never-before-seen personal reflections on songs from her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.
Starring: Glen Powell, Emilia Jones, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Katy O’Brian, Colman Domingo, Michael Cera, William H. Macy
In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television–a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards (Glen Powell) is convinced by the show’s charming but ruthless producer, Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), to enter the game as a last resort. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite–and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.
Starring: Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, Oscar Isaac
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Starring: Laila Lockhart Kraner, Kristen Wiig, Carla Tassara, Tara Strong, Gloria Estefan
In the new film, Gabby (Laila Lockhart Kraner) heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi (Gloria Estefan) to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco. But when Gabby’s dollhouse, her most prized possession, ends up in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera (Kristen Wiig), Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back together and save the dollhouse before it’s too late.
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence
To make an additional $10 donation to Gaza’s Roots, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
The American slasher (as well as John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis’ careers) gets solidified when the indestructible Michael Myers make his big screen debut in Halloween.
It all begins one Halloween night when little Michael murders his sister while his parents are out. Locked away in an asylum for years, he makes his escape back to the scene of his crime where he, you guessed it, terrorizes young babysitters and their dates in his modified William Shatner mask and a gas station attendant outfit. Will Dr. Loomis make it to Haddonfield in time to save lives? Who will survive? Find out this October!
