Arthouse comes to Midtown, when THE DEUCE presents Paul Morrissey’s BLOOD FOR DRACULA and legends of the SELYWN THEATRE, where this Euro-sleaze-shocko opened on February 21, 1975!

Plus: The famous ‘DEUCE Raffle’ and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

The blood of these whores is killing me! Udo Kier’s desperate, decrepit Dracula tours Italy’s Catholic countryside with assistant Arno Juerging in search of the purest virginal blood – the only blood that can nourish his desires and keep a healthy rose-color in his cheeks. But after discovering the Marchese de Fiore family’s farm and his four enchanting daughters, Drac quickly learns that these ladies can’t be trusted – especially when Joe Delleasndro is trimming their garden…

Made in Italy by Factory mainstay Paul Morrissey in conjunction with Flesh for Frankenstein (neither film with which Warhol had anything more to do other than putting his name on them for distribution), both films were slapped with X ratings upon release in America. And both were met with appallingly offended reviews – the extremes of their overtly sex-and-gore-laden silliness were too much for mainstream audiences to swallow. Outrageously over the top and oooozing with absurdity, Morrissey re-vamps the Dracula myth with some 1970s style Euro-sleaze-tease and titillation: Freudian overtones, Marxist parallels, and barrels of outlandish gore! Rape! Homo-erotic hunkiness!! Horrendous accents!!! Italian release title: Draculacerca sangue di vergine e… mori di sete!!!, literally “Dracula is searching for virgins’ blood, and… he’s dying of thirst!“

Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Bronx Brewery.

Nitehawk Nasties is back in September with a 35mm screening of Paul Morrissey’s FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN!

Many versions of Dr. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation have been made since Mary Shelley first wrote her gothic novel Frankenstein in 1818 but none quite as sickly amazing as the Paul Morrissey directed Flesh for Frankenstein. It is one of the more, shall we say, unique adaptations of the story as it takes elements from the book, James Whale’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein to make one over-the-top affair. Udo Kier stars as the fabulously mad scientist obsessed with creating his own beautiful monsters and for saying such truisms as, “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gallbladder.” Featuring really gorgeous people and outlandish gore, this film certainly doesn’t tackle the Frankenstein story in a conventional way but its inventiveness and insanity is what makes it so incredibly good.

Secret Formula presents…
Spoons, Toons & Booze Gets Banned

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Cartoon Episodes Not Allowed on TV!

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.

Here at Spoons, Toons & Booze, when someone tells us not to do something we pretty much have to do it. So, we’ve put together a collection of cartoons from the 1930?s through the 1990?s that were never allowed to be shown on TV, or aren’t allowed to be shown ever again, because they’re too violent, racist, filthy, seizure inducing, devil worshiping or just downright offensive. The censors can’t keep us down and we’ll be showing them all on the big screen just for you! Come and enjoy…

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930?s through the 90?s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– A special menu of cartoon episodes banned from TV!

– A free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolatey cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.

– A White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs.

– Cereal Shots! Drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in to booze up your cereal bowl!

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win sweet prizes from SecretFormula and Nitehawk Cinema.

This October, THE DEUCE takes you back to May of 1982 and the Lyric Theatre for Italo-gore-master Marino Girolami’s DR. BUTCHER, MD (aka ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST)! Introduction by Roy Frumkes.

THE DEUCE gets down with special guest curator Temple of Schlock as we present blaxploi-tabulous SUPER DUDE, aka HANGUP! This month, we’re taking you to the 42nd Street Apollo Theatre where Super Dude was last seen (over thirty years ago!) as the B-feature to The Final Terror. 

Starring: James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird

Mad Max is back in THE ROAD WARRIOR!

The Road Warrior was an instant hit upon initial release with its spare dialogue, skimpy leather outfits, violently impressive car sequences and sweepingly large landscape shots. In the follow up to Mad Max, the battle over limited supplies of gasoline rage on in this sequel set in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australian. Where motor vehicles and gas are highly coveted, everyone’s favorite gruff grifter Max helps a small, gasoline rich community against the attack of bandits. In a Western-genre format, this former sheriff reclaims his humanity as he assists these roaming settlers in finding a little bit of peace in this new land.

Part of Nitehawk’s BURN N’ RUBBER July series.

Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley

Director Walter Hill’s The Driver is no frills filmmaking at its best with amazing car chase sequences and a main character who doesn’t speak. Ryan O’Neal stars as the illusive and silent man dubbed “The Driver” who is being heavily tracked by a tough and conceited detective (Bruce Dern). Obsessed with catching The Driver and willing to risk his career in order to do so, he goes to extensive lengths to bring him down including staging a faux bank heist. Naturally, there’s a woman in the middle who’s on board to thwart the Detective at every turn.

Starring: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins, Martin Kove, Louisa Moritz, Don Steele, Joyce Jameson

In the dystopic future of 2000 there’s a cross-country car race where points are earned by brutally killing pedestrians and you either finish first or not at all! Featuring characters like “Frankenstein,” “Machine Gun,” “Nero the Hero,” and “Matilda the Hun,” the Transcontinental Road Race began after the Democratic and Republican parties collapsed and a new authoritarian dictatorship run by “Mr. President” started it to keep his North American territory satisfied. All is well until a resistance group led by Thomasina Paine rebels against the dictatorship by sabotaging the race.

Starring: Robert Englund, Johnny Depp, Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley

Wes Craven taps into our worst Freudian nightmare in A Nightmare on Elm Street by presenting a spectral murderer; a child molester killed by a lynch mob of parents who has re-entered reality by stalking their children’s unconsciousness. It’s a very visceral depiction of the most terrifying invasion attack on someone at their most vulnerable: sleeping. By becoming the high school students nightmares, Freddy symbolizes the significance of dreams and of memory as well as the thin line between reality and unreality, consequence and power. Long before Freddy’s humor become a joke in subsequent sequels, his iconic sweater, burnt face, and knives for fingers have become emblematic of a figure we would only want to encounter in the cinema, never in our dreams.