Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine…

When I was little… my father was famous.

Itto Ogami, The Lone Wolf, works as the shogun’s decapitator; the man responsible for finishing the noble act of harakiri. As the shogun becomes increasingly erratic and paranoid, he sends a team of assassins after Ogami, whose wife falls to the shogunate’s blades. Marked for death, Ogami and his surviving son travel the Japanese countryside working as an assassin for hire.

Hardly for purists, Shogun Assassin is kind of a remix. Cobbled together from the first two of the six Lone Wolf and Cub films, Shogun Assassin streamlines the original story for the grindhouse set. Redubbed in a spooky, guttural English, the film also features a new score that’s all droning, moody Moog. A cult classic since its release, Shogun Assassin has worked its way back into popular culture at large. It’s the favorite film of The Bride’s daughter in Kill Bill Vol. 2, and was heavily sampled in Wu-Tang Clan member GZA’s landmark album, Liquid Swords. Shogun Assassin perfectly encapsulates everything that the nine from Staten Island were going for: dark, dirty and violent.

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, N’Bushe Wright, Kris Kristofferson

When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an evil vampire rebel (Deacon Frost) who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect voracious blood god La Magra.

Starring: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine

Special midnite screenings of time-twisted slasher HAPPY DEATH DAY for Groundhog Day weekend!

A teenage girl, trying to enjoy her birthday, soon realizes that this is her final one. That is, if she can figure out who her killer is. She must relive that day, over and over again, dying in a different way each time. Can she solve her own murder?

Producer: Isabel Castro

Nitehawk presents a special President’s Day screening of AMERICA UPRISING, a journalistic short documentary project that brings viewers inside U.S. movements and onto the front lines of conflict.

There is an unprecedented wave of social protest throughout the United States. Created by the team behind the AMERICA DIVIDED docuseries, AMERICA UPRISING is a journalistic documentary project that brings viewers inside these movements and onto the front lines of conflict, from living rooms to the state house to the streets.

PROGRAM

FARMWORKERS
There are over half a million undocumented immigrants in Florida. Many are farmworkers. Catalina Santiago, a farmworker and organizer with Movimiento Cosecha, is determined to fight for immigrant rights. She and others organize towards an immigrant labor strike.

WESTFIELD 20/20
In Westfield, New Jersey, a group of residents new to organizing pressure local politicians who support President Trump’s agenda. An early focus is Congressman Leonard Lance, and the fate of the Affordable Care Act.

THIS LAND I LOVE
A year after the historic native-led protest at Standing Rock, President Trump greenlights the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline his first week in office. Activist Judith LeBlanc and thousands of others bring the fight to the streets of Washington D.C.

MUSLIM BAN
One of President Trump’s first acts in office was to ban individuals travelling from majority Muslim countries from entering the United States. In New York, Yemeni activist Rabyaah Althaibani protests the so-called “Muslim Ban” and navigates the policy’s impact on her own family.

CLIMATE MARCH
Environmentalist Bill McKibbon discusses the implications of President Trump’s environmental policies on the planet, and participates in the Climate March in Washington D.C.

MARCH FOR BLACK WOMEN
The Women’s March brought millions of people into the streets in January, but organizers of the March For Black Women are determined to center the voices and experiences of black women – as they are too often marginalized in mainstream resistance movements. Activist and organizer Farah Tanis discusses how her family history led her to a life of activism.

SAFE HAVEN PT. 1 AND PT. 2
Ravi Ragbir is the executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, and also one of 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Following President Trump’s election, many undocumented immigrants who had been deprioritized for deportation are being removed. Along with hundreds of his supporters, Ragbir shows up to an appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

CHARLOTTESVILLE
The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia ended in bloodshed when a white supremacist drove his car into anti-racist demonstrators. Heather Heyer, a 32 year old paralegal, was killed, and more than a dozen others were injured. Charlottesville Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy recounts events that lead up to the day, and the battle over the removal of confederate monuments in the city – a fight he says is all about race, not heritage.

AFTER THE STORM
Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20th, devastating the island. In response to criticism of the slow federal response, President Trump lashed out, tweeting that Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them.” Activists on the ground, who began organizing relief brigades in the first days after the storm, tell a different story.

WOMEN’S MARCH
The Women’s March brought millions of people into the streets in January, but organizers of the March For Black Women are determined to center the voices and experiences of black women – as they are too often marginalized in mainstream resistance movements. Activist and organizer Farah Tanis discusses how her family history led her to a life of activism.

Starring: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Sam Elliott, Marcia Gay Harden

Planned Parenthood of New York City, in collaboration with Nitehawk, is excited to present a screening to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion in the United States. While abortion may be legal, it remains largely inaccessible for many people. Please join us for a program that highlights the challenges people face while accessing abortion care, and the importance of nuanced portrayals of such in pop culture.

In Grandma, self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

Also part of the program will be video testimonies from the No Choice series produced by Bill Moyers.

German expressionist director F.W. Murnau’s most beautiful silent era masterpiece and first Hollywood film “SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS” (1927) starring George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor and Margaret Livingston is the story of a naïve young farmer bewitched by an alluring city woman, driving him toward murder.  Hailed as one of the best films of all time by many, the film and Janet Gaynor both won the Academy Award for “Unique and Artistic Picture” and “Best Actress In A Leading Role” at the first Academy Awards in 1929.

Starring: Kaniehtiio Horn, Justin Rain, Eamon Farren, Ezra Buzzington

From writer/director Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here) and featuring wrestling icon Jon Huber (WWE Superstar Luke Harper), MOHAWK is a white-knuckled hellride that’s unrelenting in its intensity and unflinching in its depiction of humanity pushed to the limits.

After one of her tribe sets fire to an American soldiers’ camp during the War of 1812, a young female Mohawk finds herself pursued by a ruthless band of renegades bent on revenge. Fleeing into the deep woods, Mohawk youths Oak (Kaniehtiio Horn, Hemlock Grove) and Calvin (Justin Rain, Fear the Walking Dead), along with their British sympathizer friend Joshua (Eamon Farren, Twin Peaks), confront the true horrors of war and the terror of the darkest night as they’re hunted by the bloodthirsty Colonel Holt (Ezra Buzzington, The Hills Have Eyes) and his small army of soldiers.

As the Americans seem to close in from all sides, leaving a massacred trail of destruction behind them, the trio must use every resource available to stave off brutal execution at the hands of the sadistic soldiers. But the warrior spirit is strong in Oak, and before the sun rises her pursuers will discover the full power of a righteous spirit unleashed.

Join comedian Kevin Maher (who SyFy.com called a “mad genius”) for a celebration of punk rock in pop culture. It’s a two-hour video variety show looking back at pink mohawks and punk attitudes from movies, TV shows and even wrestling.

“ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS IN NYC” – Hy Bender, BestNewYorkComedy.com

See why Daily Grindhouse.com called the show “Like TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”

With special guests:

HEATHER BUCKLEY (producer, RED SHIRT PICTURES)

CHRISTOPHER FUNDERBURG (editor/writer, THE PINK SMOKE.com)

TENEBROUS KATE (host of the podcast BAD BOOKS FOR BAD PEOPLE)

MARCUS PINN (creator of PINNLAND EMPIRE and the ZEBRAS IN AMERICA podcast)

KEVIN RICE (writer/producer/director from TV’s GHOUL A GO-GO)

KATE WILKINSON (creator of the WigWurq website)

Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film, IN THE FADE, comes to Nitehawk for a special brunch presentation.

Out of nowhere, Katja’s life falls apart when her husband Nuri and little son Rocco are killed in a bomb attack. Her friends and family try to give her the support she needs, and Katja somehow manages to make it through the funeral. But the mind numbing search for the perpetrators and reasons behind the senseless killing complicate Katja’s painful mourning, opening wounds and doubts. Danilo, a lawyer and Nuri’s best friend, represents Katja in the eventual trial against the two suspects: a young couple from the neo-Nazi scene. The trial pushes Katja to the edge, but there’s simply no alternative for her: she wants justice.