2 FILMS ON BEAUTIFUL 35MM, 1 TICKET!

Hosted by Nitehawk Projectionist Chris Hampson

Voyage back to cinema’s deceptively earnest “Nü Metal” period, a blissful point on the timeline (1998-2003) in which the major studios seemed to be run by sentient energy drinks with tribal tattoos – an era of unbridled stupidity given maximum funding by an industry eager to get slackerfied-young düdes off the couch and into the multiplex.

The Horror Movie, ever the patient zero of cultural shifts in Hollywood, was particularly affected and produced no shortage of face-melting wonders. So confident are we in the inherent soul-saving power of the Nü Metal Horror film that we’re not even going to tell you what’s playing! Join us as we look at a set of films that took yesterday’s tired old ghouls and thoroughly X-tremified them before sending them back out to the cultural frontlines with Frosted Tips and a chain wallet fastened securely to their belts.

Movie #1
91mins, 35mm
Epitomizing the attitude of the era, yesterday’s innocent schlock comes roaring back to the land of the living with a production design budget unthinkable in today’s world and a decadent, glossy embrace of gratuitous nudity and violence. Highly underrated and under-seen!

Movie #2
97 mins, 35mm
A tale of old souls at odds. Perhaps the most potent demonstration of the Nü Metal era’s investment in the dumbest, most juvenile dreams of the dearly departed 20th century.