Encore screening of one of our favorite sequels in A Nite to Dismember, EVIL DEAD II. A 35mm presentation!

Evil Dead II is a comedic take on a lone survivor (the estimable Bruce Campbell) and a group of strangers who fight the undead released after reading the Necronomicon.A parody sequel to director Sam Raimi’s original feature Evil Dead (when does THAT ever happen?) this version heavily features the handsome hero Ash who must fight squirly, soaring and scary demons as well as his very own hand and a flying eyeball. Cue the chainsaw and shotgun accessories. One of the best!

Spoons, Toons & Booze Halloween Special

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Halloween Themed Episodes!

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.

Lock your doors and turn off the lights because in the full moon of October we’re turning into Spoons, Toons & Boo! with a special menu of Halloween themed episodes of all your favorite Saturday morning (and weekday afternoon) cartoon series featuring witches, monsters, ghosts, trick or treating, werewolves and vampires, haunted houses, candy and more spooky fun. Even our cereal bar is haunted with special Halloween themed cereals! Plus…

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

– Dress up in your Halloween costume for the Costume Contest! Extra points if you’re dressed as a cartoon or cereal character.

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

– Special Halloween cereal menu featuring Booberry, Count Chocula, Frankenberry and more spooky cereals.

– Candy and Cereal Shots to spike your cereal bowl with!

– White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and The Complete Breakfast – Cinnamon Toast Crunch infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream, iced coffee ($8).

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

Nitehawk goes back to COLLEGE with our special one-weekend screening of ANIMAL HOUSE!

The ultimate frat house fracas, the John Landis directed/Harold Ramis penned Animal House hits Nitehawk’s screen for one weekend only. Showing you what happens when National Lampoons brings you a story about a group of 1960s college students try to save their Delta Tau Chi Fraternity. So come out and root for the slobs as they go after that pesky dean and… kill a horse in the process.

Nitehawk’s annual all-night horror movie screening on Halloween is back with a series of horrifying sequels!

Like all good monsters who return from the grave, Nitehawk is bringing back its all-night horror movie marathon with The Return of…A Nite to Dismember! Starting at midnight on Halloween we will celebrate our second year by presenting only the very best in horror film sequels: Evil Dead II, The Bride of Frankenstein, Friday the 13th: Part 2, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and Return of the Living Dead. There will also be horror shorts, inspired montages, giveaways, trivia, and a costume contest plus breakfast in the morning. Hosted by Fangoria’s Sam Zimmerman and Nitehawk’s Kris King!

RSVP to Flavorpill to get a bag of tricks-and-treats at the event! (note: you’ll still need to buy a ticket)

Forget trick-or-treating, spend the nite with us!

FILMS (in order of screening)…

EVIL DEAD II (Sam Raimi, 1987) – 35mm
A parody to director Sam Raimi’s original feature, Evil Dead II is a comedic take on a lone survivor (the estimable Bruce Campbell) and a group of strangers who fight the undead released after reading the Necronomicon.

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, 1935) – DCP
Widely considered to be one of the best movie sequels in cinema, James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein introduces Dr. Pretorius who tries to get Dr. Frankenstein back into the human-making business in order to make a wife for the beloved Karloff monster.

FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART 2 (Steve Miner, 1981) – Digital
A new set irresponsible, sex-crazed camp counsellors are back at a camp near Crystal Lake and so is the killer…it’s not Mrs. Voorhees but the indestructible Jason!

DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (Terence Fisher, 1966)  – Digital
Though technically the third in the Hammer Dracula series, Dracula: Prince of Darkness is the second film featuring the iconic Christopher Lee as Dracula as he seduces a group of four unsuspecting castle visitors.

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (Dan O’Bannon, 1985) – Digital
The dead are back…Return of the Living Dead features a group of scientists who accidentally release poisonous gas that reanimates the dead, eventually turning most everyone into zombies who crave BRAINS!

Starring: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Joan Bennett, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé

Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a candy-coated nightmare with an explosion of color and sound, heightening all the gory kills and strange occurrences to an all time pitch-perfect high. (Those bugs, the razorblades, the Goblin soundtrack!). In this horror fairy tale written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi, ballet dancer Suzy Banyon attends the German Tans Academy only to instantly find herself in the middle of a series of gruesome, and supernatural, murders. As she uncovers the dark history of the prestigious academy, the coven of witches tighten their grip on her and her classmates. She fights hard to solve the mystery before the Black Queen completely consumes her!

A group of friends are terrorized by a family of cannibals in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!

Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of a handful of films that punctuate the very life-blood of cinematic history. Intensely brutal with very little reprieve or consideration for the audience, it came out of a rift of a socio-cultural framework, bursting onscreen with the evisceration of the family structure, youth culture, and cultural fragility in a post-Vietnam United States. Like Night of the Living Dead did five years earlier, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reveals the unraveling framework of society and places the possibility of horror/death to occur anywhere; not in the Gothic castle nor in the fields of Vietnam but, more terrifyingly, in our surrounding neighborhoods. The film also reveals one of the first final girls (Sally) in the American slasher genre.

Starring: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Drew Barrymore

Many consider Wes Craven’s Scream to be the end of an era for the American horror film as it folds in all of the genre’s tropes of the previous twenty years into one meta experience. With one of the more shocking first scenes in horror history (akin to Hitchcock killing off his main character in Psycho), it establishes everything you need to know about the ride you’re about to go on. More than anything, and without being hokey, Scream is a whole lot of fun as a group of high school students ponder the “rules” of horror movies while a masked killer cleverly guts their peers.

A gang of masked, axe wielding murders invades the Davison family reunion in YOU’RE NEXT!

Nitehawk’s Final Girl series kicks off with one of the best new horror films and the latest release in series: Adam Wingard’s stellar home-invasion film, You’re Next. In the beginning, it’s the standard trope of a family happily gathered together in a somewhat isolated space for a celebration. Then comes the inevitable trouble: a gang of masked ‘Animals’ starts to systematically kill everyone and ruin all the fun. But Wingard puts a clever twist on the genre and reclaims the power of survival into a woman’s role by revealing that one of the victims (Erin) turns out to be the toughest killer of them all. Watch out because YOU’RE NEXT!

Part of Nitehawk’s FINAL GIRL October program.

SECOND PULP FICTION FILM FEAST SCREENING ADDED ON OCTOBER 15 (get tickets here or click the scroll down menu to the left).

Nitehawk Cinema presents…
FILM FEAST: PULP FICTION

Quentin Tarantino’s highly stylized violent and verbose PULP FICTION is twenty-years old this year!

Celebrate 20 years of Quentin Tarantino’s groundbreaking film with Nitehawk Cinema Film Feast presentation of Pulp Fiction featuring Absolut Vodka cocktails. As always, the screening includes delicious beverage and food menu pairings related to the film. The best part? You’ll be served each course during the specific moments that inspired the film so you can experience edible sensations while watching all of the action unfold on-screen!

The ultimate post-modern film! Weaving together separate yet interrelated tales of violence, revenge and affection, Tarantino’s seminal Pulp Fiction broke all the rules to become one of the most memorable movies of the 20th century. The film’s intelligent dialogue, non-linear storytelling, pop-cultural meta-ness, and stylized violence captivated audiences in desperate need of something fresh. Today, Pulp Fiction delivers smart entertainment that stands the test of time with its now iconic introspective hitman, washed up boxer, and a mobster’s wife. All these years later though, we still don’t know what’s in that damn briefcase.

Menu ($75)

ONE MINUTE THEY’RE HAVING A DENVER OMELETTE
pancetta, pappadew peppers, cabot clothbound cheddar, chives, toasted sourdough

Drink Pairing: Honey Bunny
juniper and hop infused Absolut Vodka, pear and thyme honey syrup, fresh lemon, Prosecco

THIS IS A TASTY BURGER!
grilled pineapple, jack cheese, chipotle aioli, shoestring fries

Drink Pairing: Tasty Beverage
Absolut Citron Vodka, homespun cherry limeade

JACK RABBIT SLIMS
coke and vanilla marinated skirt steak, Fox Force Five Herb salad

Drink Pairing: $5 Shake
whiskey barrel aged Absolut Vodka, dark chocolate milkshake

PAPA TOMATO, MAMA TOMATO, BABY TOMATO
beef steak tomato, goat cheese and sundered tomato stuffing, green tomato “catch up”

Drink pairing: A Comfortable Silence

POTBELLY PUNCH
fresh SoCal fruit punch with Absolut Mandarin Vodka

TOASTER PASTRY
cinnamon and sugar dusted puff pastry, maple “royale” icing

THIS SOME SERIOUS GOURMET SHIT
coffee panna cotta, white chocolate foam

Drink Pairing: Some Serious Gourmet Shit
bacon infused Absolut Vodka, house made maple Irish Cream, espresso

A computer hacker whose goal is to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management.

Starring Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. Living in isolation in a burnt-out church, Qohen is obsessively working on a mysterious project personally delegated to him by Management (Matt Damon) aimed at discovering the meaning of life – or the lack thereof – once and for all. Increasingly disturbed by unwanted visits from people he doesn’t fully trust, including the flirtatious Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry), Management’s wunderkind son Bob (Lucas Hedges), his unpredictable colleague Joby (David Thewlis), and would-be digital therapist Dr. Shrink-Rom (Tilda Swinton), it’s only when he experiences the power of love and desire that he’s able to understand his own reason for being.