Starring: Merrie Holiday, Jamie Gillis, Kim Pope, Marc Stevens, Zebedy Colt, Sonny Landham

Carol Scrooge (Merrie Holiday), the curmudgeonly editor of Biva Magazine, insists that her employees work on Christmas, much to their dismay. However, the night before Christmas, she is visited by three ghosts, each of whom shows her lurid visions of Christmases past, present and future. Will Scrooge see the error of her ways and embrace the true meaning of Christmas?

From acclaimed filmmaker Shaun Costello (Water Power) comes the wildest, funniest adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol ever made. Featuring gorgeous production design and a cast of New York adult film regulars including Kim Pope, Jamie Gillis, Marc Stevens, Zebedy Colt and Sonny Landham, The Passions of Carol features everything a good Christmas film should have: heart, humor, warm spirits and, well, a healthy dose of stocking stuffing. Newly restored in 4K by Distribpix from its original 16mm camera negative.

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Starring: Sarah Nicholson, Helen Madigan, Erica Eaton, Eric Edwards, Wes Craven

Angela is haunted by guilt for the morbid bond with her brother Peter, who is destined to be a priest. In an attempt to free herself from this passion, she embarks on a descent into the infernal rounds of erotic love.

“What happens when a brother and a sister break the ultimate taboo?” And what was Wes Craven up to in the five-year gap between the release of his seminal THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) and THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977)? Come find out in “Abe Snake’s” THE FIREWORKS WOMAN. Angela and Peter are siblings who’ve loved each other a little too much since they were kids. As Peter tries to move on with his life by studying to become a priest, Angela finds herself falling deeper and deeper into a life of unholy lust.

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Starring: Mary Mendum, Carl Parker, Marilyn Roberts, Valerie Marron, Michelle Vence, Estelle McNalley, Nicole Rochambeau

4K restoration

Jean discovers that Anne cannot get enough of being humiliated by her mistress, Claire. Gentleman that he is, he decides to partake in the activities. Ultimately, Claire surrenders to him as well.

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Starring: Kitten Natividad, Ken Kerr, Anne Marie, June Mack, Henry Rowland, Uschi Digard

This July, take a drive deep shall we say “Down South” with The Deuce to the starving-for-it core of our shall we say “Cun-tree” via a deep dip into one Smalltown, USA… and discover together there a bevy of dark demented desirous secrets barely buried BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA-VIXENS! A hot-house hoot of hedonism, jingoism, and shall we say “jismism”… shall we?? We did!!

The basic shall we say “stripped down” story here being that of buggering buffoon hubby Lamar forever leaving his luscious wife Levonia cold with all his yearnin’ for book-learnin’ (?!!?) and insistence on shall we say “beating it through the back door”… setting off a series of sex-capades that shall we say “straddles” the whole sexed-up strata of Small Town, USA’s citizenry… At once and together a stinging satire of America’s sham moralizing as its populace gets forever screwed in the shall we say “alternate ending” AND a fun shall we say “filled” fantasy fantasia of fetishism, femdom, and freewheeling fornication!!

A later shall we say “entry” in the string of Meyer’s “Vixen” movies and maybe his most mind-meltingly mannerist and meta… its filmmaking freed from the tethers of taste or trepidation – untimid in its telling – a frantic frenetic fever-dream forward-thinking fable that very well may have flummoxed the raincoat-clad despite cloudless skies crowd for the Lyric Theatre‘s mega-Meyer double feature shall we say “coupling” with 1975s SUPERVIXENS… And though perhaps more or less or mostly there for the shall we say “jujubees” shall we say “on hand” – by the time of BEANEATH’s release many a film-fan and flim-flam “critics” alike suspected Meyer had more up his shall we say “sleeve” – as would be expected from a filmmaker forged in the fire of WWII’s “official photo unit” to General Patton, is rumored to have shot the shall we say “raising” of the flag at Iwo Jima (to which one imagines, had he his druthers, would have been accompanied by a slide-whistle’s “whoooooop!”), and who’s self-penned tombstoned epitaph dead-panly reads: “King of the nudies. I was glad to do it.” … As too you will be when shall we say “buried” deep in The Deuce BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA-VIXENS!!

Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Edith Massey

With the title of “Filthiest Person Alive” at stake, Babs Johnson, her degenerate son and dim-bulb mother face stiff competition from the vile Marble clan in an unbridled assault on every taboo in the book. Incest, drug trafficking, bestiality and an egg fetish are merely the tip of the iceberg in this controversial ultra-black comedy from renegade filmmaker John Waters.

Starring: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett

“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls seems more and more like a movie that got made by accident when the lunatics took over the asylum… An independent X-rated filmmaker (Russ Meyer) and an inexperienced screenwriter (Roger Ebert) were brought into a major studio and given carte blanche to turn out a satire of one of the studio’s own hits. And “BVD” was made at a time when the studio’s own fortunes were so low that the movie was seen almost fatalistically, as a gamble that none of the studio executives really wanted to think about, so that there was a minimum of supervision (or even cognizance) from the Front Office.” — Roger Ebert

Jörg Buttgereit’s notorious West German exploitation film about Betty and Rob, a couple with a very particular set of kinks: making it with body parts and corpses. Rob works at a cleaning service that collects human remains after accidents and murders, a perfect gig for the dude, really. He sneaks off with human bits to satisfy his and Betty’s flesh fetish, but one day he strikes gold and brings home the ultimate prize: a full, rotted human corpse.

Banned in multiple countries for years, this hyper-low budget softcore splatter comedy boasts untold grotesqueries as well as themes that connect pleasure and death; abandonment and impotence; and personal freedom in the face of West German conservatism.

THE OTHER SIDE OF MADNESS (aka THE HELTER SKELTER MURDERS) is the shocking true story of the Charles Manson death cult! A nightmare of TERROR! The DOCUMENTED re-enactment of the horrifying Beverly Hills mass killings that shocked the world! Murder… without reason… without mercy… BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION!

THE DEUCE gets dirty with a very special evening honoring porno-provocateur, bad-boy Al Goldstein (of Screw Magazine and Midnight Blue) with a very rare 35mm screening of SOS: SCREW ON THE SCREEN. Co-hosted by Casey Scott.

Featuring special guest Lisa Katzman –  journalist, documentary filmmaker, and friend of Al Goldstein – with more guests TBA! Plus some jizz-tastic stories of the Victory Theater, the Deuce’s hallowed hot-house of X-rated indulgences…

And of course: The famous ‘DEUCE Raffle,’ Gaffel Kolsch at the after-party, and music by DJ Bones! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!

Provocative, outspoken, controversial, and a bona fide original: all these words and more aptly describe the late, great Al Goldstein, one of the original co-founders of the notorious Screw Magazine, an underground rag that transformed the magazine world of the 1970s. Ever the showman, Goldstein credited Screw and its movie review “Peter Meter” system with making Deep Throat the runaway porno chic hit of 1972, and had no qualms with publishing celebrity nude pics before it became commonplace in magazines like “Celebrity Sleuth” and on the world wide web.

Designed as a feature-film version of an issue of the sensational magazine, SOS: Screw on the Screen lives up to its title, book-ending sex scenes with dirty joke skits, counterculture documentary vignettes, film reviews (with illustrative clips), and no-holds-barred interviews with intriguing personalities like adult film legend Jody Maxwell, ‘The Singing C***sucker from Missouri,’ who performs her astonishing feat live and unedited, and renowned stripper/vaginal acrobat Honeysuckle Divine, whose act must be seen to be believed. The magazine format would later translate to Manhattan public-access television as Midnight Blue, perhaps Goldstein’s most enduring legacy to generations of late-night TV junkies, but it was done here first in this one-of-a-kind film as distinctive and unusual as its creator.

35mm print courtesy of Distribpix.

A tongue-in-cheek examination of sex films as a beautiful starlet learns the ins and outs of show business, the HARD way! Screening a new DCP restoration.

The Sexualist chronicles the production of part-time astrologist Jeffrey Montclair’s latest nudie movie. Jumping between self-parody and bizarre screwball antics, and complete with a ‘gay gorilla,’ director Kemal Horulu’s mind-bending satire of the sex film industry serves as a textbook example of oddball, experimental filmmaking from the earliest years of hardcore feature films.

The Sexualist is part of our Nitehawk Naughties 2014 program in partnership with Vinegar Syndrome – intended for mature audiences.