A teleportation experiment has a shocking end for an ambitious scientist in THE FLY!
Imagine you have a scientist partner who toils away the days in the laboratory and eventually presents to you the discovery of the century: he’s invented a teleportation machine. Joy! Now imagine there’s a small hiccup when he teleports himself and half turns into the fly who snuck into his device while that fly has half turned into him. Would anyone believe you? Would you believe it? What lengths would you go to fix it? The Fly surely isn’t a pretty tale but it’s a good one full of shocking reveals and gory ends. Starring the legendary Vincent Price as the non-insect brother, The Fly disrupts the nuclear family ideal and taps into the atomic mutilation fear of the 1950s that still gives us a damn good fright.
Part of Nitehawk’s October SCIENCE! midnite and brunch series.
Get ready for an encounter with some seriously heavy metal; get ready for HARDWARE. A 35mm presentation!
A junker wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland stumbles upon what seems like a goldmine: a busted up robot buried in the irradiated sand. He collects the pieces of the fierce looking machine and takes the parts back home to research. He gives the head to his girlfriend. Big mistake. This isn’t some ordinary killbot, this is the M.A.R.K. 13, a self-repairing murder machine designed for human genocide. Piecing itself back together with hunks of scrap, the M.A.R.K. 13 sets out to fulfill its primary directive: “No flesh shall be spared.”
Part of Nitehawk’s October SCIENCE! midnite and brunch series.
Doctor Frankenstein and his monster discover the meaning of life in James Whale’s iconic FRANKENSTEIN.
It’s alive!
The birth of the technological age (electricity! science!) sparked an ever-lasting debate between the coexistence of science and spiritual belief in our modern world. So when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1808, it unsurprisingly created a narrative that has endured until this day. But it’s James Whales’ film version of Frankenstein that has cemented the “monster” into immortality. Adjustments were made for the cinema (it’s actually more based on a 1927 play) but the ambitious Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s creation of a living man from corpses sets the foundation for his turmoil and our understanding of what it means to be human. It is also without-a-doubt the life actor Boris Karloff gives to the “monster” that makes us love this film and all the silly incarnations that have come since. Playing God has never been so good.
Part of Nitehawk’s October SCIENCE! midnite and brunch series.
The two-faced nature of man transforms a scientist into a beast in Rouben Mamoulian’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.
It’s not the first or only cinematic re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but this 1931 film by Rouben Mamoulian is most certainly the meanest. It’s Pre-Code which means that all of Mr. Hyde’s brutality and all of the film’s sexual overtones can play out on screen in a suggestively shocking manner. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde blends scientific methods and philosophical theories by tapping into the idea that inside everyman is a latent animal. So we see a respectable, mannered young doctor, Dr. Jekyll, obsessed with accessing his true inner self by drinking a potion and then turning into Mr. Hyde, a cruel, hairy beast. Ultimately, his messing with nature causes him to come undone and unable to control himself in all manners of being.
Part of Nitehawk’s October SCIENCE! midnite and brunch series.
Comedian Kevin Maher presents an obsessive look at life beyond the brink in KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT THE APOCALYPSE.
In this special edition of Kevin Maher’s comedy-variety show, the host teams up with Freebird Books (home to NY’s only post-apocalyptic-themed book club) for an obsessive look at end-of-the-world scenarios across page and screen.
Featuring rare film clips, trivia prizes and a post-apocalyptic costume contest.
The 2-hour multi-media event will include presentations on renowned visions of a dark future and obscure examples of wasteland stories.
Special guests include:
- Emily Asher-Perrin (Tor.com)
- Peter Miller (Founder of The Post-Apocalyptic Book Club)
- Tenebrous Kate (cult movie blogger/founder of the Heretical Sexts zines)
- Matt Glasson (Editor, Filmmaker)
- Nathaniel Wharton (SportsAlcohol.com)
This show is an Official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event.
She Made It presents a special Music Driven presentation of NORTHERN SOUL with director Elaine Constantine in person for a Q&A moderated by The Face Radio‘s Kurtis Powers.
In the 1970s, a form of dance music took a feverish hold on the UK, finding its heart in the north of England. The music of 1960s-70s American soul singers combined with distinctive dance styles to create what became known as northern soul. The movement tapped into a yearning for individual expression in northern working-class teenagers, and exploded into a cultural phenomenon that influenced a generation of DJs, songwriters and designers for decades to come. Northern Soul, a new film by acclaimed photographer and director Elaine Constantine, brings to life the scene for a whole new generation of 16 to 24-year-olds as well as longstanding soul fans.
Part of Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN Signature Series. Presented with our media partner, Noisey.
Nitehawk and Ship to Shore PhonoCo. are proud to present the New York City theatrical premiere of the freshly restored MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE.
Q&A with Nicki Mathis, vocalist of “Forgetting You” (the love theme from Manos: Hands of Fate) before the film moderated by Tim Ferrante, columnist for VideoScope Magazine. After the screening, there will be an after party at Lo-Res where attendees can purchase Ship to Shore’s Manos soundtrack LP.
Often lauded as one of the worst films of all time, Hal P. Warren’s notorious no-budget monstrosity Manos: The Hands of Fate combines bizarre imagery, nonsensical dialog and an off-kilter funhouse score to create a memorably surreal experience. The poster claims “a cult of weird, horrible people who gather beautiful women only to deface them with a burning hand,” but…. we’re not too sure if that even happens.
Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN presents special midnite screenings of I AM THOR. Pre-show Q&A with Jon Mikl Thor moderated by Richard Christy on Saturday, November 21!
Jon Mikl Thor was a bodybuilding, steel bending, brick smashing rock star in the 70’s & 80’s whose theatrical band THOR hit the scene alongside Metallica and Kiss, but never achieved the gold record status of its contemporaries.
After a brief but memorable film career saw him starring in the cult classics Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare and Zombie Nightmare, Thor all but disappeared from the entertainment map. But ten years into retirement, and incapable of living like a normal mortal human being, Thor attempts a comeback to achieve the level of success that had eluded him his entire career – a comeback that nearly kills him.
Tracing the rise, fall, and rebirth of a determined performer over the course of a career that has seen more than its fair share of highs and lows, I AM THOR paints a fascinating and sometimes unbelievable portrait of this larger-than-life icon.
Part of Nitehawk’s MUSIC DRIVEN signature series.
A documentary on THE DAMNED, the first English punk artist to release a single and album.
From Lemmy filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first U.K. punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. This authorized film includes appearances from Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones (The Clash), Lemmy and members of Pink Floyd, Black Flag, GNR, the Sex Pistols, Blondie, Buzzcocks, and more. Shot around the globe over three years, the film charts the band’s complex history and infighting, as it celebrated its 35th anniversary and found its estranged former members striking out on their own anniversary tour, while still others battle cancer.
Nitehawk Cinema’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival’s series on New York filmmakers continues with a special screening of AVA’S POSSESSIONS. Q&A after the screening with director Jordan Galland and cast member Wass Stevens!
Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she is forced to attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group. As Ava struggles to reconnect with her friends, get her job back, and figure out where the huge blood stain in her apartment came from, she is plagued by nightmarish visions–the demon is trying to come back.
Part of Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR monthly series with the Tribeca Film Festival that features independent New York filmmakers.
