Comedian Kevin Maher returns to Nitehawk Cinema for this video variety show celebrating iconic movie monsters.

Each guest pays tribute to his/her favorite version of a famous creature. Come see rare footage and hear dynamic discussions about the vampire, the Frankenstein Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and many more monsters.

We’ll look at everything from classic films to bizarre remakes and unusual re-imaginings.

See why DailyGrindhouse.com called Kevin Geeks Out “like TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”

With special guests:

• Amber Dextrous (from Kevin Geeks Out About Tobe Hooper)
• Jon Abrams (editor-in-chief at DailyGrindhouse.com)
• Kevin Rice (writer/producer/director of GHOUL A-GO-GO)
• Kevin Harrington (from THE HADRON GOSPEL HOUR)
• Chris Smith (co-host of the READ IT AND WEEP podcast)
• Jack Theakston (Projectionist and Film Historian)

In suburban Perth during the mid 1980s, people are unaware that women are disappearing at the hands of serial killer couple John and Evelyn White. After an innocent lapse in judgment, seventeen year old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted by the disturbed couple. With her murder imminent, Vicki realizes she must find a way to drive a wedge between Evelyn and John if she is to survive. Hounds of Love is an exercise in expertly-crafted tension, offering a bold, challenging debut from writer/director Ben Young.

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second, comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls.

The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint.

When a dazzling comet lights up the night’s sky, it dawns on them. They want something more from this connection—a chance to meet, an opportunity to truly know each other. Tugging at the string of fate, they try to find a way to each other. But distance isn’t the only thing keeping them apart. Is their bond strong enough to face the cruel irony of time? Or is their meeting nothing more than a wish upon the stars?

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THE EYESLICER is a new punk rock variety TV show collecting America’s boldest short-form filmmaking into hourlong visual mixtapes that will mince your retinas into delicious ceviche.

Fresh off the show’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, join us for the first ever screening of three never-before-seen episodes of The Eyeslicer:

Episode 101: Paint Your Dreams at Night
Episode 103: Digital Sensations
Episode 104: School Spirit Plummets

Featuring talking toilets, tamagotchis, karaoke hits about the singularity, a live web stream of your own birth, a Faces of Death-inspired virginity experience, pilot lessons for the Washington Generals, overnight bus rides through Silicon Valley, faking sick to get high on the beach, police at a high school prom, the closing of Blockbuster video, rollerskating, love poetry, Facebook prostitution, mask-making, gymnastics, haunted high school yearbooks, parents getting turned into cats, and much, much more.

Plus, immediately following the screening two special guests will present a LIVE GENITAL HEALTH PRESENTATION.

Directed by Jack Dunphy, Augustine Frizzell, Leah Shore, Elizabeth Lo, Ornana, Zach Jones, Joanna Arnow, Bradley Bischoff, Sasha Gransjean, Ryan Weibush, Jillian Mayer & Lucas Levya, Garrett Bradley, Ben Wheele and C. Spencer Yeh, Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan, Harrison Atkins, Daniel Laabs, Christopher Radcliff, Kelly Sears, Colin Healey, Izzi Galindo, Jennifer Reeder, and The Eyeslicer.

Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Rose Byrne, Steve Coogan, Marianne Faithfull

Based on the biography of Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette takes a luscious look on the misunderstood Queen of France. By incorporating modern elements with the soundtrack and other periodic anachronistic objects, Coppola adds to her trilogy of films that explore life defining experiences of young women by making the 18th century accessible. Marie Antoinette, born in Austria and married off to become the Queen of France at a ridiculously young age, was a complex historical character who indulged, loved, and lost on extreme terms.

Ben Wheatley brings us the mind-blowing genre masterpiece, KILL LIST.

A brilliant blend of family drama, hitman action-thriller and terrifying psychological horror film, Kill List tells the story of an ex-soldier turned contract killer who is plunged into the heart of human darkness. Eight months after a disastrous hit job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, Jay is pressured by his partner Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the bizarre, disturbing world of the contract, Jay’s world begins to unravel until fear and paranoia sending him reeling towards a horrifying point of no return.

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they’ve done in CURE.

The unnerving 1997 thriller Cure, directed by contemporary master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa, follows an investigator as he looks into a string of gruesome murders around Tokyo—and discovers that the murderer may be out of his or her mind. It’s a remarkably disturbing, atmospheric suspense film, compelling up to its last haunting frame. – Criterion

TAXI DRIVER is a terrifying portrait on the edge of madness.

Adrift in New York City after the Vietnam War, socially awkward loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes up a job prowling the city’s streets as a taxi driver to deal with his insomnia. Exposed to no one but a rogues gallery of pimps, hustlers and perverts, Travis begins seeing the world as putrid and in need of cleansing. Through awkward, fumbling attempts at romance, Travis isolates himself further, leaving him alone to mull over his obsessions: guns, a phony presidential candidate, and a roughed-up underage prostitute.

Martin Scorsese’s masterwork, Taxi Driver is a brute of a film, one that scrapes characters from the gutter of New York City and rakes them out into the sun to see how they react. Essential on every level.

The quaint town contains a sinister truth for women in THE STEPFORD WIVES.

The second wave of feminism certainly didn’t make landfall on the town of Stepford, CT. When Joanna Eberhart moves with her husband and two young children from New York City to the quiet town, she finds the women there are too “perfect” – vapid, obsessed with housework and tending to their husband’s every need. Along with her new friend Bobby, she sets up to uncover the terrifyingly unbelievable truth.

The first film version of Ira Levin’s novel, The Stepford Wives, was moderate success when released in the mid-1970s but throughout the decades its popularity has reached cult status. Perhaps it’s because the story of forced sublimation of women back into traditional gender roles continues to horrify each new generation of film goers.