Join us at Nitehawk Cinema as we step back twenty years to an era of gigantic jeans, looming technological apocalypse and some pretty killer horror flicks. This Halloween, we’re going to be DYING LIKE IT’S 1999.
Starting at 9:30pm and charging deep into the witching hour, we’re celebrating our favorite holiday by threading up a secret pair of ’99 horror classics on 35mm. Come dressed to the ’99s for Nitehawk’s annual costume contest, plus prizes, specialty cocktails & the return of a Nitehawk tradition so sinister, so horrifying, so terrifying, that we dare not utter its name…
This Halloween may not be A Nite to Dismember, but this will surely be a one for the obituary pages.
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Kramer, Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest
Shaken and injured from her battle with unkillable psycho Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is taken to the Haddonfield Hospital for observation, while Dr. Sam Loomis continues his desperate search for his monstrous patient. After slashing his way through the town, Myers manages to track Laurie to the hospital. Numerous night-shift employees are slaughtered in a variety of gruesome ways as Myers closes in on his fixation.
Starring: Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Wendy Kaplan, Ellie Cornell, Don Shanks, Beau Starr
Following her mysterious behavior at the conclusion of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, young Jamie is committed to the psychiatric care of Dr. Loomis. Meanwhile, Michael Myers is presumed dead following a shoot-out with the Haddonfield Police and a fatal fall down a mineshaft entrance. But all is not as it seems. A well-meaning derelict nurses Michael back to health, and one year later he is back to kill again! Jamie finds herself the object of Michael’s murderous rage, and along with her new friends and Dr. Loomis, she tries to prevent Michael from continuing his bloody rampage.
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur, Danielle Harris, Michael Pataki
It’s a decade after the original Halloween massacre in Haddonfield, and Michael Myers lays comatose in a maximum security prison hospital. But when he learns of the existence of his young niece Jamie, he escapes to return home and fulfill his destiny of destruction. Can Michael’s relentless killing spree be stopped by Dr. Loomis, or will this inhuman evil again survive the most frightening night of the year?
Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy, Ralph Strait, Michael Currie
The Halloween series takes a break from Michael Myers…
When a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, babbling and clutching the year’s most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask, doctor Daniel Challis is thrust into a terrifying Halloween nightmare. Working with the salesman’s daughter, Ellie, Daniel traces the mask to the Silver Shamrock Novelties company and its founder, Conal Cochran. Ellie and Daniel uncover Cochran’s shocking Halloween plan and must stop him before trick-or-treaters across the country never come home in this terrifying thriller.
Across 2017/2018 Depeche Mode embarked on their Global Spirit Tour, in which they performed to more than 3 million fans at 115 shows across the globe. This new visually-striking film, directed by award-winning filmmaker and longtime artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn, captures the energy and spectacle of the band’s performance from the tour along with a deeper look into how their music and shows have been woven into the fabric of their fans’ lives.
Through the deeply emotional stories of six special Depeche Mode fans, the film shows not only how and why the band’s popularity and relevance has continued to grow over the course of their career, but provides a unique look into music’s incredible power to build communities, enable people to overcome adversity, and create connections across the boundaries of language, location, gender, age, and circumstance.
Artfully shot and expertly edited, Depeche Mode: SPIRITS in the Forest goes beyond the typical concert film, weaving together exhilarating musical performances, filmed at the final shows of the Global Spirit Tour in Berlin’s famed Waldbühne (“Forest Stage”), with intimate documentary footage filmed in fans’ hometowns across the globe.
Just can’t get enough? After the movie, join us in upstairs bar for Music Video Time Machine presents DARKWAVE! Enjoy on-screen projections of music videos by Depeche Mode, along with clips by the Cure, New Order, Erasure, Yaz, the Jesus & Mary Chain, OMD, Sisters of Mercy, INXS, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Love & Rockets and more.
Starring: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong
Screening in 2D
Henry Brogan is an elite assassin who becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, he soon learns that the man who’s trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.
Starring: Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Paulson
When teenage Yi (Chloe Bennet) encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building, she and her friends, Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) and Peng (Albert Tsai), name him “Everest” and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth.
But the trio of friends will have to stay one-step ahead of Burnish (Eddie Izzard), a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara (Sarah Paulson) to help Everest get home.
New York premiere with producers Heather Buckley and Mike Capone in attendance with cast member Sam Sherman
Throughout the late 1960s and the entirety of the ’70s, B-movie director Al Adamson earned infamy with his no-budget productions, tantalizing genre fans with titles like Satan’s Sadists and Dracula vs Frankenstein and then treating them to earnestly made schlock. His hustle could make even Roger Corman blush. Unfortunately, Adamson’s legacy became forever tainted by his shocking 1995 passing, the details of which are stranger than his cinematic exploits. Severin Films founder and director David Gregory’s Blood & Flesh is an exhaustive and captivating analysis of Adamson’s singular career and inexplicable end.
Starring: Stephen Lang, Martin Kove, William Sadler
New York premiere with director Joe Begos, writer Max Brallier, and cast members Tom Williamson, David Patrick Kelly and Stephen Lang in attendance
A tight-knit group of grizzled military veterans (played by a formidable cast of genre fan favorites, including Stephen Lang, William Sadler and Fred Williamson) just want to have a laidback night of hard boozing inside their VFW digs. Too bad for them, though, that a gang of punk drug dealers and supercharged addicts have other plans for their unsuspecting elders. Coming off of his excellent descent-into-hell eye-opener Bliss, horror grime master Joe Begos puts his bold stamp on the good old-fashioned “siege movie” with this gore-drenched and delightfully sleazy adrenaline rush.
