Comedian Kevin Maher presents a two-hour video variety show of Horror footage and pop culture commentary.

LISTEN TO ME MARLON utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brandon recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend’s story.

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon’s perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

Nitehawk Cinema presents two midnite screenings of APPLESAUCE featuring surprise prizes and an introduction by director Onur Tukel!

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?

Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to call in and share their stories.  And tonight, Ron Welz (writer/director Onur Tukel) is ready to share his.  But soon after he confesses on the air, Ron finds a severed foot in his laundry… then a cut off finger in his mail… then worse.  His life begins to unravel and his marriage begins to fall apart.  Someone is tormenting him.  Is it his insolent high school student?  Is it his best friend?  His wife?  In a city like New York, there are eight million suspects and each one could have a bone to pick with someone like Ron. 

Take dark comedy, mix it with noir, add a dash of horror and stir in some melodrama, and you have the recipe for one of the most original and unusual movies of the year.

Nitehawk is proud to bring back APPLESAUCE after our debut screening in our LOCAL COLOR monthly series with the Tribeca Film Festival that features independent New York filmmakers.

Turning transparent isn’t the only result of Jack’s scientific experiment in James Whale’s mesmerizing THE INVISIBLE MAN!

It’s inevitable that complications would arise after chemically altering the fundamental fabric of one’s own body to turn invisible. For Dr. Jack Griffen, the main side-effects seem to be anger, hostility, and severe case sarcasm. Made only a couple of years after the breakout release of Frankenstein in 1931, The Invisible Man continues Whales’ directorial adaptation of literature’s misunderstood and marginalized characters onto the big screen. Whales’ treatment of these misanthropic characters is simultaneously heart-breaking and angering but, unlike our dear Frankenstein’s monster, Jack is a monster of his own making, a victim of his own greed for knowledge. Based on H.G. Wells’ science-fiction novella, the film serves (like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) as a cautionary tale of humans playing “god.”

Part of Nitehawk’s October SCIENCE! midnite and brunch series.

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.