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Museum of Home Video presents RING, RING: A DOORBELL CAM FANTASIA

Museum of Home Video is a weekly found footage livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists and drinkers. For this special IRL show, MOHV premieres a new feature-length edit that’s chilling and all too-real! Plus, the program’s rounded out with a found footage trove of horror movie ephemera.

Our modern surveillance state is built one doorbell cam at a time. Nearly one in four U.S. homes is decked out with them; they’re literally everywhere. Thus the subculture of viral doorbell cam mixtapes was born, highlighting an ocean of creepy human behavior befitting a slasher film. In RING, RING, you’ll see the very best of porch thieves, patio punks, door-to-door doorbell lickers, local yokels flipping birds, scared-stiff missionaries, wasted grandmas, killer klowns, Karen-style freakouts, armed assailants, autonomous lawnmowers, pyrotechnic explosions, rainy day weirdos and the pure soulless eyes of chaos.

The Royal Hotel

Starring: Jessica Henwick, Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Toby Wallace, Daniel Henshall

Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Nowhere

Starring: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni

The 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s Nowhere is a stylized foray into the nightmare world of adolescent highs and lows, but more than that, it functions as a study of an entire generation and the direction they’re headed. Where The Doom Generation seemed to be a wake-up call, Nowhere is more of a reflexive inquiry into the destiny of the seemingly apathetic youth who place more emphasis on style than substance. An ensemble piece with James Duval (star of all three of the films in the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy), Nowhere features a cast that mixes well-known faces—Ryan Philippe, Christina Applegate, Debi Mazar, Heather Graham, Guillermo Diaz, Denise Richards, Beverly D’Angelo, Shannen Doherty, and Tracy Lords—with up-and-comers.

Restored and remastered, Araki’s final version includes scenes omitted from the original release due to rating restrictions. Nowhere is a sexy and wild ride, so buckle up, remain seated, and enjoy the ultimate fast trip to oblivion.

Nosferatu

Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder

In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Starring: Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen, Tristine Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner

Eager to cash in on the runaway success of microbudget The Blair Witch Project, the studio fast-tracked a sequel with a leftfield choice – documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (the Paradise Lost Trilogy; Metallica: Some Kind of Monster). Rather than replicating the found footage experience, something Berlinger found disingenuous, his pitch was to skewer the concept of manipulative marketing with a story involving a group of young Blair Witch fanatics who reject that the movie is fiction, setting out to find proof of what they believe is real.

Notoriously altered by meddling studio execs looking to have more sensational gore and a Marilyn Manson-forward soundtrack, as released theatrically Book of Shadows strayed from Berlinger’s vision. Over the twenty years since its release, a cult following has emerged, attaching to the core of the movie that retains the originally intended ideas. For this one night only event, Berlinger joins us in person following a screening on 35mm film to discuss the fraught history of the making of the movie, and how it reads decades later.

Destroy All Monsters

Starring: Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi

At the turn of the century, Earth’s monsters have been safely rounded up and studied on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and more monsters across the world.

Final Destination 2

Starring: Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, Terrence “T.C.” Carson, Jonathan Cherry, Keegan Connor Tracy

Set one year after the fateful plane explosion of the first movie, Final Destination 2 sees a new crop of young friends escaping death thanks to a premonition, this time in the form of a horrible highway pile up, only to find each survivor meeting their end in other gruesome ways.

The first sequel in what is arguably the most reliably entertaining horror franchise of the 2000s, Final Destination 2 reaches new levels of misanthropy, reveling in offing its charmless characters, toying with the viewers expectations of how each death will go down. Written by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress, creators of one of the most confounding studio films ever made (The Butterfly Effect), this is a demented ride that will effectively have you calculating every step you take to get home safely.

Migration

Starring: Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Caspar Jennings, Tresi Gazal, Awkwafina, Carol Kane

This holiday season, Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family vacation like no other in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Starring: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren

After failing to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta wields the power of the mythic Black Trident to unleash an ancient and malevolent force. Hoping to end his reign of terror, Aquaman forges an unlikely alliance with his brother, Orm, the former king of Atlantis. Setting aside their differences, they join forces to protect their kingdom and save the world from irreversible destruction.

The Bikeriders

Starring: Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Norman Reedus

The Bikeriders is a furious drama following the rise of a fictional 1960s Midwestern motorcycle club through the lives of its members. Inspired by Danny Lyon’s iconic book of photography, The Bikeriders immerses you in the look, feel and sounds of the bare-knuckled, grease-covered subculture of ’60s motorcycle riders.

Kathy (Jodie Comer), a strong-willed member of the Vandals who’s married to a wild, reckless bikerider named Benny (Austin Butler), recounts the Vandals’ evolution over the course of a decade, beginning as a local club of outsiders united by good times, rumbling bikes, and respect for their strong, steady leader Johnny (Tom Hardy). Over the years, Kathy tries her best to navigate her husband’s untamed nature and his allegiance to Johnny, with whom she feels she must compete for Benny’s attention. As life in the Vandals gets more dangerous, and the club threatens to become a more sinister gang, Kathy, Benny and Johnny are forced to make choices about their loyalty to the club and to each other.